{"id":509619,"date":"2023-09-14T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?post_type=migration&p=509619"},"modified":"2024-01-17T10:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:14:04","slug":"mike-moreau-bringing-bennu-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/mike-moreau-bringing-bennu-back-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Moreau: Bringing Bennu Back to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230902-nasa-0015.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"985\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230902-nasa-0015.jpg?w=985\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Mike Moreau, a man with dark brown hair and a short beard, smiles at the camera in a formal portrait in front of an illustration of the OSIRIS-REx capsule. He wears a blue woven suit with a light blue shirt and a NASA pin on his left lapel.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230902-nasa-0015.jpg 985w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230902-nasa-0015.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230902-nasa-0015.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230902-nasa-0015.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230902-nasa-0015.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230902-nasa-0015.jpg?resize=900,600 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Dr. Mike Moreau, the deputy project manager for NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx mission, is responsible for managing the planning and implementation of the mission\u2019s sample return plans in Utah. The mission will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu. When it arrives, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert. <\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\"><strong>Credits: NASA \/ Angeles Miron<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Michael Moreau<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Deputy Project Manager for OSIRIS-REx<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organization:<\/strong> Space Science Mission Operations (SSMO, Code 444)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dr. Michael Moreau serves as the deputy project manager for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/osiris-rex\" rel=\"noopener\">OSIRIS-REx<\/a> (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer), a multi-year mission to travel to the asteroid Bennu and collect a sample. On Sept. 24, after a seven-year flight, OSIRIS-REx\u2019s sample capsule will finally touch down in the Utah desert, becoming the first American mission to collect material from an asteroid in space and return it to Earth. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is your role with the OSIRIS-REx mission? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the deputy project manager for OSIRIS-REx. I work in the Space Science Mission Operations project here at Goddard that\u2019s responsible for managing OSIRIS-REx, and I\u2019ve been in this role since 2019. Before that, I led the navigation efforts for the mission, but my specific job right now is basically \u201cNASA recovery manager.\u201d I\u2019m responsible for managing all the planning and implementation of the sample recovery activities out in Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you get to Goddard? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I started out as an intern at Goddard in a program called the NASA Academy. I had just graduated from college as a senior and mechanical engineer. I applied to this NASA internship, and I came here in the summer of 1994. And that was a really great experience, it kind of opened my eyes to the possibility that people actually work in the field of space, which I\u2019d always been interested in. But I came from a rural community in Vermont, and there wasn\u2019t a lot of aerospace in Vermont. This internship opened my eyes to the possibilities of working at NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used the connections I made at the internship to decide about going to grad school. I went to the University of Colorado. I applied for a NASA fellowship, and I had a fellowship that sponsored my graduate research from Goddard. And then I came here to continue that work at Goddard when I graduated with my Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why is it important that we went to Bennu in the first place? What are we hoping to learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just from a general perspective, any time that we can explore a new world and see what it looks like and see what surprises it has in store for us, that\u2019s an amazing moment of discovery. It\u2019s like hiking to the top of a ridge and that moment of seeing the landscape on the other side for the first time. There\u2019s an excitement about exploration that is very much part of space exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why we chose Bennu in particular, it\u2019s a specific kind of asteroid that we believe is made up of material dating to the very formation of our solar system. The material that will be returned is unique relative to anything in the existing meteorite collection, and scientists all over the world are preparing to study the material and are excited to see what surprises it will have in store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are your plans for after the sample touches down?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You mean after I take a long vacation? One thing about this is it\u2019s taken a lot of commitment of time from all the people that have worked on it. I think me and many others are interested in taking some time off once that sample is safely on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is continuing after it drops of the sample in September. There\u2019s an extended mission called OSIRIS-APEX, and the objective is to rendezvous with a different near-Earth asteroid called Apophis in 2029. At least for the initial time frame, I\u2019m going to work on that mission and try to help get that off on the right foot. The spacecraft has to be reconfigured, it\u2019s going to fly quite close to the Sun, and there\u2019s some challenges that have to be overcome just in the first few months of that mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"To Bennu and Back: Journey\u2019s End\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8R2hsoIgTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">OSIRIS-REx is NASA\u2019s first asteroid sample return mission. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. The mission\u2019s thrilling finale will take place on September 24, 2023, as a capsule containing the Bennu samples touches down in Utah\u2019s West Desert.<br><strong>Credits: NASA<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is it true you have an asteroid named after you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is true. It\u2019s a very special recognition that they did for some of the team members that were part of the mission and development. The way it works is that asteroid discoverer has the right to propose a name. One of the people that worked on our mission was responsible for the discovery of thousands of asteroids through his involvement with the Catalina Sky Survey, which was responsible for autonomously searching for asteroids and discovering asteroids. So, the project submitted proposals to have asteroids named after team members as a very special form of recognition which is a pretty amazing honor. I can\u2019t think of anything that\u2019s cooler than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you know about your asteroid? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know it\u2019s a main belt asteroid discovered in 1999 and about 6 km (3.7 miles) in diameter, so it\u2019s quite a bit larger than Bennu (which is about a third of a mile across), but we don\u2019t know a huge amount about it. It\u2019s one of hundreds of thousands of asteroids that are orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Would you ever want a spacecraft to travel to your asteroid? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, yeah, that\u2019d be the coolest thing ever. We should propose a mission to do a tour of all the OSIRIS-REx team members\u2019 asteroids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Ananya Udaygiri <\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Media Contact: <\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>Rob Garner <\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em><a href=\"mailto:rob.garner@nasa.gov\">rob.garner@nasa.gov<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cwg-banner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1041\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cwg-banner.png?w=1041\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A banner graphic with a group of people smiling and the text "Conversations with Goddard" on the right. 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On Sept. 24, after a seven-year flight, OSIRIS-REx\u2019s sample capsule will finally touch down in the Utah desert, becoming the first American mission to collect material from an asteroid in space and retur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":509688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nasa_hds_core_meta_l10n":"en-US","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_editor":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_contacts":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_topic":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_linked_locations":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_related_articles":[],"hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_id":"","hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_type":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_x":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_y":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_gallery_images":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3241,11317,2857,2759,12282,2658],"news-tags":[],"internal-terms":[10475],"coauthors":[12392],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Mike Moreau: Bringing Bennu Back to Earth","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/mike-moreau-bringing-bennu-back-to-earth\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/mike-moreau-bringing-bennu-back-to-earth\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230902-nasa-0015.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230902-nasa-0015.jpg"},"articleSection":"The Solar System","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elizabeth M. 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