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It's been another great year at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Join us as we review some of the highlights of the science,

Touch down - Asteroid Bennu sample successfully lands on Earth

This morning at 10:52 a.m. ET, an asteroid sample collected as part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission landed in the Utah desert. In return for the Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) contribution to this mission, a portion of the asteroid material will go to Canada. It will be studied by generations of Canadian and international scientists.

In a June 27 article for Big Think, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, who is associated with Technical University Berlin, suggested that after landing on Mars in 1976, NASA's Viking landers could have collected minuscule, resilient life forms hidden within Martian rocks.

Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 08, 2023 - An agreement with the Johnson Space Center will allow the University of Arizona to be substantially involved in human spaceflight expeditions. The University of Arizona recently signed a Space Act A