NASA returned its first sample of an asteroid to Earth last year, but getting at the full sample proved difficult due to a couple of troublesome fasteners.
Ripping Off the Lid NASA's team has finally managed to pry off the last two stuck fasteners of the container that holds some incredibly valuable artifacts: materials the agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sampled from asteroid Bennu over 100 million miles away. The samples, tucked inside a special landing capsule, were dropped off in the Utah desert […]
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NASA technicians have finally removed the two stubborn fasteners that prevented them from accessing all of the asteroid samples returned to Earth by OSIRIS-REx in September.