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.

NASA Astromaterials

NASA's First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room - NASA

Breaking Records, Returning Asteroid Samples Among NASA's Big 2023 - NASA

Sample Curation – OSIRIS-REx Mission

How OSIRIS-REx's capsule could hold keys to 'building blocks of life' on Earth - ABC News

Information for the Media

OSIRIS-REx successfully returns samples from asteroid Bennu

OSIRIS-REx Launch: NASA Asteroid Mission Begins Successfully : The Two-Way : NPR

Mission to Bennu

This NASA lab specializes in studying extraterrestrial materials - Deseret News

Bennu Asteroid Samples Expected to 'Fundamentally' Shift Our Perspective on Cosmic Life

How OSIRIS-REx's capsule could hold keys to 'building blocks of life' on Earth - ABC News

NASA Solar System Exploration