Project Asteroid : Mapping Bennu
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English

Originally released by American Public Television, 2017.

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In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu and collect samples that might provide answers to the origins of life. "Project Asteroid: Mapping Bennu" documents the construction of one of the critical instruments on board the spacecraft: the OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES), the first space instrument to be built entirely on the Arizona State University campus. The documentary, in the making since 2012, takes viewers behind the scenes as it follows the efforts of a team of engineers, professors, students, and scientists led by the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration’s project manager Philip Christensen. "Project Asteroid" follows the OTES team as it counts down to the mission launch date and profiles selected team members who give their personal perspectives on the challenges and rewards of this high-stakes undertaking.

9 - 12, Academic/AP

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Closed-captioned.