Members of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation team work with a glove box (IMAGE)

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Members of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation team work with a glove box

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Members of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation team work with a glove box at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The curation team will be among the first to see and handle the sample OSIRIS-REx is returning from asteroid Bennu. They are also responsible for storing and distributing the sample to science team members around the world. Most of the sample will be stored for future generations.

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Credits: NASA Johnson/Bill Stafford

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