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Engineers Finally Open OSIRIS-REx's Sample Container

We have all been there, had that one stubborn jar of jam that we just can’t open. Maybe you grab a rubber band or run it under warm water and its an easy fix but just imagine when the jar is a module from a $1.16 billion interplanetary probe! That’s what happened to NASA engineers when they were trying to recover samples from the OSIRIS-REx module when they discovered the clamps had cold welded shut! OSIRIS-REx is a NASA mission to retrieve a sample from asteroid Bennu and return it to Earth.

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