Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.
A small black stone from the asteroid Bennu is seen on on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. after being returned to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.first display of a piece of the asteroid Bennu
"What we are doing today is a just a milestone. It is a start in where we are going," he said."Where we are going is trying to use this sample to really understand our unique planet."Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals Flanking the display of the roughly 0.3-inch-diameter , 0.005-ounce stone are two models. On its left, is a 1:84 scale replica of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that powered theIn addition to the Bennu sample, visitors to the Smithsonian's National Museum of National History in Washington, D.C. can also see scale models of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and the Atlas V 411 rocket that carried the spacecraft.
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