OSIRIS-REx Curation Team Reveals Remaining Asteroid Sample

Sample Photographed in Extreme Detail

It was a bit of a struggle, but the astromaterials curation team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has completed the disassembly of the OSIRIS-REx sampler head to reveal the remainder of the asteroid Bennu sample inside. On Jan. 10, they successfully removed two stubborn fasteners that had prevented the final steps of opening the Touch-and-Go-Sa…