The space agency is set for the ultimate unboxing as it presents samples taken from asteroid Bennu this Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. ET.
After being dropped off on Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, pieces of asteroid Bennu will be revealed to the public for the first time on Wednesday. NASA will be showing off its first asteroid sample at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on October 11 at 11:00 a.m. ET, and the space agency will be broadcasting the event live so you can get a chance to marvel at the collection of rocks and dust through your screens.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off the asteroid samples in the Utah desert on September 24, from where it was airlifted to a clean room. From there, the clean room team packaged all the parts of the sample capsule for transport by aircraft to the Johnson Space Center the next day. At the space center, NASA designed a new laboratory specifically for the OSIRIS-REx mission. This is NASA’s first time retrieving a sample straight from an asteroid.
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