NASA Johnson builds labs to study new asteroid samples, cosmic mysteries

OSIRIS-REx at ARES

Houston TX (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touches asteroid Bennu, it will capture NASA's first sample from an asteroid and provide rare specimens for research that scientists hope will help them shed light on the many mysteries of our solar system's formation. The sample is scheduled for return to Earth in 2023 to be examined and stored in state-of-the-art curation faci