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Edward Beshore is the Deputy Principal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission and a Senior Staff Scientist at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Beshore was a senior engineer at Boeing Computer Services and at Hewlett-Packard. In 2002, he joined the University of Arizona Catalina Sky Survey, a leading NASA-funded program to inventory asteroids and comets that may represent a hazard to the Earth. In 2009, he became the Principal Investigator of the Catalina program. His background in software development and data management is helping him plan and oversee the science operations for the mission when the spacecraft arrives at asteroid Bennu in 2018.