Move over, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – Coralie Adam: Asteroid Wrangler is in the house!

Coralie joins Jocelyn and Bradley to discuss her exciting work with the OSIRIS-REx mission and its upcoming touchdown on the asteroid Bennu. She shares the challenges of controlling the spacecraft and collecting samples on an object 207 million miles away from Earth (talk about working remotely, amirite?!), and how this mission is historic in more ways than one: making history as the first U.S. spacecraft to collect a sample from an asteroid, with the potential to illuminate the early history of the solar system and the origins of life on Earth. Coralie also describes her journey from young space enthusiast and aspiring archeologist to a real live “space archeologist” of sorts, explaining how she has forged a career that bridges engineering and science.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn to pronounce fun words like “stereophotoclinometry”!

Follow the mission on Twitter at @OSIRISREx, and learn more about Coralie’s amazing work at the links below!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/coraliejackman/
https://www.wired.com/story/the-remarkable-stuff-scientists-get-done-as-they-work-from-home/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6712127544151408640/
KinetX: https://www.kinetx.com/
OSIRIS REx:
https://www.asteroidmission.org/
https://www.asteroidmission.org/team/team-list/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13724
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/osiris-rex-begins-its-countdown-to-tag
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/osiris-rex-observes-an-asteroid-in-action
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/osiris-rex-produces-nightingale-mosaic
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/second-rehearsal-puts-osiris-rex-on-path-to-sample-collection