NASA and JAXA exchange asteroid samples
NASA has transferred a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample, collected by its OSIRIS-REx mission, to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as part of an asteroid sample exchange. The handover took place during a ceremony on Aug. 22 at JAXA's Sagamihara campus in Japan. This exchange follows the November 2021 event when JAXA provided NASA with a sample from asteroid Ryugu, retrieved