NASA Explorers Season 6, Episode 3 TAG

It was Touch-and-Go there for a few seconds...Literally!

OSIRIS-REX had only six seconds to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu in a maneuver called TAG, or Touch-and-Go- while the #NASAExplorers behind the mission waited anxiously from 200 million miles away.

Created by:

James Tralie

Producers: James Tralie, Dan Gallagher, Lauren Ward, Katy Mersmann

Scientists: Dante Lauretta, Mike Morean

Operations:

Beau Bierhaus, Coralie Adam

Broadcast Hosts: Michelle Thaller, James Tralie, Gary Napier, Nancy Neal Jones Videographers. Rob Andreoli, John Philyaw, John Caldwell

Animation: Walt Feimer, Michael Lentz, Jonathan North, Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, Krystofer Kim, James Tralie, Bailee DesRocher, Jacquelyn DeMink, Lisa Poje

Sound Design:

James Tralie

Data Visualization:

Kel Elkins

NASA+ Executive Producer: Rebecca Sirmons

Music provided by Universal Production Music: "Voyager" by Jeremy Stack; "Moment in Time" by David Thomas Connolly, "Held" by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; "Unstoppable Urge" by Frederik Wiedmann; "King of the Mountain" by Steven David Fay; "Night Watch" by Jeremy Stack; "Shadow Shifter" by Michael James Burns; "Follow the Drinking Gourd" by Karin Hoo; "Conquering" by Alan Myson; "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy; "Human Stories" by Dominic Francis Glynn; "Marked for Flight" by Kavin Hoo; "Never End" by Sergey Azbel; "Getting Things Done" by Theodore Vidgen; "Dark String Bend" by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; "First Rains" by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; "Natural Wonders" by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; "Successful Return" by Alan Boyd; "Frosty Dawn" by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; "Starfall" by Sergey Azbel; "Lost Thought" by Adriano Aponte