Scientists Eagerly Await NASA’s Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample Return

ARES team

NASA staff practice how they will handle asteroid samples with a mock glove box at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Credit: NASA Johnson/Bill Stafford
HOUSTON—No strangers to extraterrestrial materials, the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) are eagerly awaiting the late September arrival of materials gathered from the asteroid Bennu by the agency’s Osiris-Rex mission. NASA’s first-ever...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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