Sample from asteroid Bennu returned last month

After a seven-year mission, NASA will reveal the asteroid sample it collected from a 4 billion-mile journey and brought back to Earth last month.

NASA will host the unveiling at 11 a.m. News 6 will stream the news conference live when it happens in the player above.

The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission launched from the Space Coast in September 2016. Then, after touching the asteroid Bennu in 2020, OSIRIS-REx came home landing a week ago in the Utah desert. NASA has said Bennu may hold clues to how life began on our planet.

Since the spacecraft landed, NASA says it took the sample of rocks and dust to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for analysis.

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