1 Day Until Arrival

In just one more day — on Dec. 3, 2018 — NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will arrive at asteroid Bennu after more than two years traveling through space. Once it reaches its destination, the spacecraft will spend about a year and a half surveying this never-before-visited asteroid and preparing to collect a sample of surface material for return to Earth.

On Dec. 3 at 9:45 am MT/11:45 am ET, join members of the mission team for a LIVE NASA broadcast from the control room at Lockheed Martin celebrating the spacecraft’s arrival at Bennu. Brush up on your mission knowledge with pre-show programming beginning at 9:15 am MT/11:15 am ET.

Viewing options for the broadcast include Facebook Live, YouTube and the NASA website.

Participants in the arrival coverage event include:

• Michelle Thaller, moderator, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md

• Heather Enos, OSIRIS-REx deputy principal investigator, University of Arizona, Tucson

• Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md

• Mark Fisher, OSIRIS-REx spacecraft engineer, Lockheed Martin Space, Littleton, Colo.

• Coralie Adam, OSIRIS-REx flight navigator, KinetX, Inc. Space Navigation and Flight Dynamics, Simi Valley, Calif.

Media can submit questions in advance to Danielle.M.Hauf@lmco.com. On Dec. 3, media and the public may ask questions using the hashtag #askNASA on Twitter or by leaving a comment on the livestream of the event on the OSIRIS-REx Mission Facebook page.

Credit: University of Arizona

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