Meanwhile, India loses contact with its lunar rover and space industry's “learning period” is extended 8 more years,
#OSIRISREx sample return capsule
Seven years after launching to space, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth Sunday to deliver the pristine sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. But it is difficult to test this idea using meteorites, pieces of asteroids that reach Earth’s surface, which are heated by the atmosphere and are then contaminated by microbes on the ground, Dr. Lauretta said. Instead, many scientists turn their eyes to space.Essentially, yes. Samples and hardware will be processed in nitrogen-purged gloveboxes located in an ISO 5 cleanroom to maintain the collection’s pristine condition.
They spent two weeks gathering data and images, after which they were put into ‘sleep mode’ at lunar nightfall.
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