On a brisk day in February, 2004, Dante Lauretta, an assistant professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona, got a call from Michael Drake, the head of the school's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. "I have Lockheed Martin in my office," Drake said.
The two men met that evening with Steve Price, then a director of business development for Lockheed Martin Space, on the patio of a hotel bar in Tucson. Over drinks, they scribbled ideas on cocktail napkins.
Queen guitarist Brian May helps NASA return asteroid sample to Earth
When he's not rocking out on stage as a founding member of Queen , Brian May enjoys a healthy scientific interest in outer space.
But it's no mere hobby for the 76-year-old guitar legend to gaze upon the stars or research the nature of the universe. May, an accomplished scientist who has a doctorate in astrophysics, recently helped NASA return its first ever asteroid sample to Earth.
OSIRIS REx asteroid sample could unlock mysteries of the solar system | TPR
On Sept. 24, the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx dropped off a sample of the asteroid Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid that orbits the sun and comes relatively close to Earth.
The sample landed with a parachute in Utah, where scientists successfully recovered the materials, and they are now studying them.
SpaceX launch of NASA's Psyche asteroid mission just 1 week away | Space
Update for Sept. 29: NASA has announced that Psyche will now launch on Oct. 12. This piece has been updated to reflect the new launch date.
We're just two weeks away from the first-ever interplanetary mission for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.
The Falcon Heavy is scheduled to launch NASA's Psyche spacecraft from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 12.
1640-foot asteroid could hit Earth, says UCC professor; know when | Tech News
Asteroids are massive space rocks that travel through space and worryingly, some of these also make a close approach to Earth. NASA tracks such asteroids and categorizes them as potentially hazardous or non-hazardous objects depending on their size and proximity to the planet.
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