Osiris Rex Lab At Nasa Jsc

A new OSIRIS-REx Curation Laboratory in Houston awaits delivery of the asteroid samples, which will first be inspected at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Comments 1

Samples were returned to Earth in December 2020 and 10 percent of the collected material is currently housed in a state-of-the-art laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center JSC dedicated to Ryugu material 1. OSIRIS-REx is a spacecraft launched by NASA that collected samples from asteroid Bennu.

The new OSIRIS-REx sample clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. This photo was taken on June 22, 2023. Credit NASAJames Blair Extraction and Examination Procedures. Having practiced these procedures for months, scientists and technicians plan to proceed through the many steps of removing the sample from the TAGSAM.

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

The Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer OSIRIS-REx was selected as the third mission of NASA's New Frontiers Program.

The Astromaterials Newsletter is a bi-annual publication produced by the Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office at NASA Johnson Space Center to inform the sample science community about updates to our policies, collections, and available samples.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was 2,110 kilograms fully-fueled at launch on an Atlas V411 rocket. OSIRIS-REx arrived at asteroid Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018. The spacecraft featured 2 systems that enabled sample collection the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism TAGSAM and the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule SRC capsule.

Nicole Lunning, Deputy OSIRIS-REx curator within the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science ARES division at NASA's Johnson Space Center left with Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator and professor of planetary science from the University of Arizona in Tucson, dressed in clean room gowns in the new curation laboratory at Johnson.

OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. It will deliver an estimated cupful of material from near-Earth asteroid Bennu to Utah's West Desert on Sept. 24, 2023. After a capsule containing the Bennu samples touches down, its contents will be taken to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and

RSampH design services come highly recommended by NASA's Astromaterials Research amp Exploration Science Division and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. NASA has partnered with RSampH on various projects to prepare us for the receipt of new asteroid samples returning to Earth in the early 2020s by the OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa 2 Missions.