Preparing for Asteroid Bennu: NASA's OSIRIS-REx Astromaterials Lab Opens Doors to Media

Ahead of the first asteroid sample collected by the U.S. arriving on Earth in September, media are invited on Monday, July 24, to meet mission scientists and see NASA’s newly-built OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Laboratory where the agency will study the sample at its Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Preparing for Asteroid Bennu: NASA's OSIRIS-REx Astromaterials Lab Opens Doors to Media

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