Asteroid sample headed for Houston

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A sample collected from the surface of an asteroid three years ago returned safely to Earth yesterday. The rubble from asteroid Bennu is being transferred today from a Defense Department facility in Utah to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, as host Marco Werman explains.

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