Asteroid specialist and doctoral candidate Alessondra "Sondy" Springmann.

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Alessondra” Sondy” Springmann: A journeywoman planetary scientist who stumbled into astronomy in college and followed a winding road that has led her to NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample-return mission.

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Dan Leone is the NASA reporter for SpaceNews, where he also covers other civilian-run U.S. government space programs and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He joined SpaceNews in 2011.Dan earned a bachelor's degree in public communications...