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University of Arizona: NASA's OSIRIS-REx Curation Team Clears Hurdle to Access Remaining Bennu Sample
January 12, 2024
TUCSON, Arizona, Jan. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release:

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Before this milestone, the curation team already had collected more than the 60 grams required to declare the mission a success.

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NASA's Johnson Space Center curation team members have successfully removed the two fasteners from the sampler head that had prevented the remainder of OSIRIS-REx's asteroid Bennu sample material fro . . .

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