Planets and Moons ID: 14388

OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Rehearsals

Released on July 28, 2023

OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. It will deliver an estimated cupful of material from near-Earth asteroid Bennu to Utah’s West Desert on Sept. 24, 2023. After a capsule containing the Bennu samples touches down, its contents will be taken to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and preserved at the OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Facility.

In June, team members from the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division (ARES) practiced disassembling the OSIRIS-REx sample canister and documenting its contents. Teflon spheres were used to represent material from Bennu – a primitive asteroid thought to contain pristine organics from the early solar system. This page provides editor’s resource reels from the rehearsals.

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Credits

Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona): Scientist
Nicole Lunning (NASA/JSC): Scientist
John L. Stoll (NASA/JSC): Producer
Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Editor
Shaneequa Vereen (NASA/JSC): Public Affairs Officer
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center