Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 19 hours ago
How does a navigator on Earth fly a spacecraft that's billions of miles away? Science, math, planning and some good old fashioned NASA-know-how. Coralie Adam, OSIRIS-REx Flight Navigator, and Alice Bowman, New Horizons Mission Operations Manager, are preparing for major navigation milestones in their respective missions.
On Dec. 3, 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will arrive at Asteroid Bennu where it will spend two years surveying this relic from our solar system's beginnings before ultimately collecting a sample and returning it to Earth in 2023.
On New Year's Day 2019, NASA's New Horizons mission will visit Ultima Thule, making this Kuiper Belt Object the most distant object ever explored by humankind.
How does a navigator on Earth fly a spacecraft that's billions of miles away? Science, math, planning and some good old fashioned NASA-know-how. Coralie Adam, OSIRIS-REx Flight Navigator, and Alice Bowman, New Horizons Mission Operations Manager, are preparing for major navigation milestones in their respective missions.
On Dec. 3, 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will arrive at Asteroid Bennu where it will spend two years surveying this relic from our solar system's beginnings before ultimately collecting a sample and returning it to Earth in 2023.
On New Year's Day 2019, NASA's New Horizons mission will visit Ultima Thule, making this Kuiper Belt Object the most distant object ever explored by humankind.
