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It's Been 2 Months. Why Can't NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container?

25 pointsby foruharover 1 year ago

5 comments

TehShrikeover 1 year ago
Talk about a challenging environment. In the interest of not contaminating the contents, you can only poke at it in a highly-constrained environment, using approved tools.<p>I don&#x27;t imagine NASA is going to let the engineers make any quick changes to solve the problem.
arararover 1 year ago
This has been going on for a while: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Magdeburg_hemispheres" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Magdeburg_hemispheres</a>
scherlockover 1 year ago
Wish they had a photo of the two bolts they can&#x27;t get out. Though I wonder if, in the vacuum of space, the metal of screws and the metal of the containers contact welded together due to high machining tolerances.
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Hard_Spaceover 1 year ago
I re-watched <i>The Andromeda Strain</i> yesterday, and am glad to see this is only a (presumably) fixable technical hitch.
hulituover 1 year ago
&gt; It&#x27;s Been 2 Months. Why Can&#x27;t NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container?<p>They are ashamed to admit that they are empty.