OSIRIS-REx

Over the weekend NASA recovered its first asteroid samples from a desert in Utah. The OSIRIS-REx sample container is now in Houston, Texas where scientists will catalog everything and begin distribution to institutions world wide.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which has nothing to do with dinosaurs, successfully snagged chucks from the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020. It has since been en route back to Earth and is set to return on September 24.