NASA says it's finally removed two fasteners that were keeping it from getting to the asteroid Bennu sample. The sample is housed in a Touch-and-Go-Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), which itself is being protected in a glovebox.
The space agency worked for months to develop tools capable of opening stubborn fasteners that had trapped material collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
The space agency worked for months to develop tools capable of opening stubborn fasteners that had trapped material collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
(CNN) — Two stubborn fasteners trapped invaluable material sampled from an asteroid — but after a monthslong process, it has finally been released, NASA announced Thursday.
The top has been popped on a stubborn piece of hardware holding precious asteroid samples brought back to Earth by a University of Arizona-led space mission.