NASA finally figures out how to open a $1-billion canister
Late last year, a spacecraft containing samples of a 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid landed safely in the desert after a 1.2-billion mile journey.
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Late last year, a spacecraft containing samples of a 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid landed safely in the desert after a 1.2-billion mile journey.
Late last year, a spacecraft containing samples of a 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid landed safely in the desert after a 1.2-billion mile journey. There was only one little problem: NASA couldn’t get the canister containing its prized rocks open.
NASA lifted the lid of its OSIRIS-REx sample container, collected from millions of miles away on asteroid Bennu. The space agency photographed the contents inside.
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NASA team members have been working for months to open a sealed capsule with space samples that landed in Utah in September 2023.