NASA finally figures out how to open a $1-billion canister
by Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times
Jan 21, 2024
2 minutes
Late last year, a spacecraft containing samples of a 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid landed safely in the desert after a 1.2-billion mile journey. There was only one little problem: NASA couldn't get the canister containing its prized rocks open.
After months of tinkering, scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in
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