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The OSIRIS-REx mission is a mission
that primarily is going to bring a

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sample of a primitive asteroid back to
Earth so that we can study it completely

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uncontaminated by any other reactions on
the Earth. The meteorites that we pick up

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could have had other interactions with
organic materials on the surface of the

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Earth, so they're not pristine.

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The scientific objectives are to understand

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the material that was available for the
formation of the Earth the origin of

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life things like that at the very
beginning of the solar system. In order

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to do that we need to bring back a
sample and do the analysis of that

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sample in our laboratories. We can do
much more sophisticated analysis in the

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laboratories then we can at the at RQ36.
Simply because you can't carry a whole

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laboratory with you on a spacecraft,

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The reason asteroid research is important is

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because the asteroids themselves are
leftover remnants of the rocks and the

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dust and possibly some of the gas that's
embedded in those those rocks and dust

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and crevasses, from the early solar
system it's material that literally is a

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grab-bag of the solar nebula at the time
that that grab-bag happened to form

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which was probably four-and-a-half
billion years ago.

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