Engineers at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston freed the fasteners on January 10.
The innovation and dedication of this team has been remarkable.
We are all excited to see the remaining treasure OSIRIS-REx holds.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation engineer, Neftali Hernandez, attaches one of the tools developed to help remove two final fasteners that prohibited complete disassembly of the TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) head.Photo: NASA/Robert Markowitz
The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in September 2016 and reached asteroid Bennu in December 2018.
The team did manage to collect some material from outside the TAGSAM head.
Correction: A previous version of this post gave the incorrect figure for the amount of bonus material recovered.
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