The Science Show - Mission to collect asteroid sample
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:36 amDavid Fisher interviews principle investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission, Daunnte Lauetta, for Australia's Radio National Science Show.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/mission-to-collect-asteroid-sample/3949256
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/mission-to-collect-asteroid-sample/3949256
The University of Arizona is designing a NASA mission to one of our closest asteroids which will collect a sample and bring that sample back to Earth. The asteroid could contain carbon and organic molecules and if so, this might help explain how organic molecules made their way to Earth. Dante Lauretta is the principal scientist. He describes the mission and what it hopes to achieve.