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    OSIRIS REx: Ready for a Voyage to Bennu

    OSIRIS REx: Ready for a Voyage to Bennu

    FromPlanetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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    OSIRIS REx: Ready for a Voyage to Bennu

    FromPlanetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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    Length:
    34 minutes
    Released:
    Jun 21, 2016
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    OSIRIS-REx will launch toward Near Earth Asteroid Bennu soon. In an early celebration of Asteroid Day, mission leader Dante Lauretta tells us how learning about asteroids may teach us about our own origins, and help us avoid a cataclysmic impact.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    Released:
    Jun 21, 2016
    Format:
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    Planetary Radio brings you the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. We visit each week with the scientists, engineers, leaders, advocates and astronauts who are taking us across the final frontier. Regular features raise your space IQ while they put a smile on your face. Join host Mat Kaplan and Planetary Society colleagues including Bill Nye the Science Guy, Bruce Betts, and Emily Lakdawalla as they dive deep into the latest space news. The monthly Space Policy Edition takes you inside the DC beltway where the future of the US space program hangs in the balance. Visit planetary.org/radio for the space trivia contest, an episode guide, and much more.