"Sampling an Asteroid", an immersive program by Carter Emmart, director of AMNH, New York, NY

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In September 2016, NASA plans to launch OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to retrieve a pristine sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth for further study. The mission’s target is Bennu, a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid that is also potentially hazardous to Earth. Carter Emmart, director of American Museum of Natural History in New York will host "Sampling an Asteroid" - an immersive program for school kids aged over 11 and adults.

The program highlights how the spacecraft’s mapping of the asteroid Bennu will inform scientists, who are choosing a location for capturing surface material from the asteroid in 2020. The samples could shed light on how our solar system formed and how life on Earth began.