Lab Shortfalls Concern Asteroid Sample Scientist

Artist's concept of NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid-sample-return spacecraft arriving at the asteroid Bennu.
Credit: NASA
The principal investigator for NASA’s $1 billion Osiris-Rex asteroid sample-return mission is concerned that the agency has not invested sufficiently in laboratory infrastructure to study the samples the team hopes to gather later this year. During a Jan. 14 NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG)...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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