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Goddard’s Whiteboard Art Gallery: OSIRIS-REx

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Madison Olson

Sep 19, 2017
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To some, a whiteboard is a creative outlet to unwind during the work day. To others, it is a small but mighty collaborative tool to use when planning NASA’s latest missions. No matter what lies on their canvases, these boards are little pieces of artwork, and they’re hidden within labs and offices all over NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Below, the OSIRIS-REx team shows off some of their gallery’s masterpieces. OSIRIS-REx (short for Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security – Regolith Explorer) will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016. As planned, the spacecraft will reach Bennu in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023, becoming the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample for study.

Brent Bos in front of his white board
Brent Bos with intern Lee Roger. Says Bos, “If I have to pick my kids up from school or we come here on the weekends, the kids love to doodle on it. The more colors the better, and they’ll usually go down the hall and steal some out of the conference room. I usually erase those, but they don’t know it.”
NASA/Chelsey Ballarte
Priti Vasudeva whiteboard
“My whiteboard is a reminder that the OSIRIS-REx CD cost has not been finalized in a certain database called CADRE.” — Priti Vasudeva, deputy project manager for resources (DPMR)
NASA/Chelsey Ballarte
Ron Mink
“I’m most creative when I’m standing up… I think!” – Ron Mink, mission systems engineer.
NASA/Chelsey Ballarte

By Chelsey Ballarte
Elizabeth M. Jarrell
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center