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  3. What's Next For OSIRIS-REx? A Grad Student Explains

What's Next for OSIRIS-REx? A Grad Student Explains

Sept. 14, 2016
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The OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission saw a flawless launch on Sept. 8. 

So what's next? A KVOA reporter asked doctoral student Kristofer Drozd just that on launch day.

Find out what he, and the rest of the OSIRIS-REx operations engineering team, will do to guide and support the spacecraft over the next seven years. 

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