The first U.S. asteroid sample, delivered by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to Earth on Sept. 24, has arrived at its permanent home at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where it will be cared for, stored, and distributed to scientists worldwide.
The sample arrived in Houston at 12:40 pm ET aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft, which landed at Ellington Field. From there, it was transferred to NASA Johnson.at Johnson built exclusively for Bennu samples. The clean room includes custom glove boxes built to fit the sample canister containing the TAGSAM head inside. The TAGSAM head was on the end of a robotic arm that collected rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu's surface on October 20, 2020.
Researchers plan to analyze asteroid dust from the initial disassembly for an early glimpse into the chemical, mineralogical, andThe new OSIRIS-REx sample clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Image was taken on June 22, 2023. Credit: NASA/James Blair.
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