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NASA receives its first asteroid samples<\/h2>\n

Sunday morning the sample return capsule of OSIRIS-REx touched down in a desert in Utah. Inside it is expected to be a plethora of regolith from the target it collected from three years ago. This is the first set of asteroid samples NASA has collected. The mission is a partnership between NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight and the University of Arizona\u2019s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, who provided the principal science team, while the spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n

In a post landing press conference, NASA confirmed that the samples appear to be in a good state even after the main parachutes opened much higher in the atmosphere than planned. The samples where helicoptered over to a temporary clean room at the military\u2019s Utah Testing and Training Range before it was loaded onto a C-17 and flown to Houston.<\/p>\n

At Johnson Space Center, NASA has constructed a new facility to house the samples of asteroid Bennu. There a team of scientist and technicians will open and begin the long cataloging process. Similar to the facility for Apollo samples, the facility is equipped with glove boxes inside clean rooms to ensure no samples get contaminated by Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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