NASA Explorers Season 6, Episode 5: Sample Return

How does it feel to watch your life's work parachute through the atmosphere? Retrieving the sample of asteroid Bennu is just the beginning of this game-changing science mission. Relive the joy and suspense of the OSIRIS-REx sample return with #NASAExplorers.Created by: James Tralie
Producers: James Tralie, Dan Gallagher, Lauren Ward, Katy Mersmann
Scientists: Dante Lauretta, Brian May
TV Hosts: James Tralie, Jim Garvin, Lauren Ward, Sophia Roberts, Shaneequa Vereen
Return Broadcast Producers: Michael Starobin, Sami Aziz
NASA Administrator: Bill Nelson
Broadcast Logistics: Micheala Sosby
Videographers: Rob Andreoli, John Philyaw, John Caldwell, Liz Wilk
Animation: Walt Feimer, Michael Lentz, Jonathan North, Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, Krystofer Kim, James Tralie, Bailee DesRocher, Jacquelyn DeMink, Lisa Poje, Jenny McElligott
Sound Design: James Tralie
Data Visualization: Kel Elkins
NASA+ Executive Producer: Rebecca Sirmons

Music provided by Universal Production Music: “Fast Motion Orchestra” by Laurent Levesque; “Triumphal” by Alan Myson; “Betrail” by Anders Paul Niska and Klas Johan Wahl; “Sunrays” by Chips Hunt, Jez Fox, and Rohan Jones; “Conquering” by Alan Myson; “Psychotic Strings” by Matthias Ullrich and Raffael Gruber; “Between Surprise and Fear” by Alan Myson; “In the Simulator” by Alan D Boyd; “Danger Zone” by Justine Emma Barker; “Major Heart” by Jennifer Lynn Jacobs and Marc Aaron Jacobs; “Launch Pad at Sunrise” by Alan D Boyd; “Rig for Red” by Andreas Bamberger, Martin Laschober, and Richard M. Lauw; “Confronting your Fears” by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; “Floating Satellites” by Blair Mowat; “King of the Mountain” by Steven David Fay; “Arctic Wind” by Laetitia Pansanel-Garric; “Threatening Riser” by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; “Marked for Flight” by Kavin Hoo; “New Generations” by Sergey Azbel; “Dark String Bend” by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; “Glistening Heart” by Adam Saunders and Mark Stephen Cousins; “Elevation” by Alan Myson; “Shores of Eventide” by Benjamin Peter McAvoy, Stuart Dale Thomas, and William David Featherby; “Rise Up” by Alasdair Neil Parkinson; “Wilderness” by Alan Myson; “On the Edge” by Or Chausha and Yaniv Barmeli

Credit: NASA