The top has been popped on a stubborn piece of hardware holding precious asteroid samples brought back to Earth by a University of Arizona-led space mission.
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NASA has finally opened the OSIRIS-REx sample containers with asteroid Bennu's samples. Several months after OSIRIS-REx's sample container arrived on the planet, it is only now that scientists and researchers were able to fully open the capsule that holds most of the collected space debris from asteroid Bennu.
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Curation team members at NASA s Johnson Space Center in Houston have successfully removed the two fasteners from the sampler head that had prevented the remainder of OSIRIS-REx s asteroid Bennu samp