21 October 2020
OSIRIS-REx successfully touches asteroid Bennu
... gas firing, and back-away from Bennu are major accomplishments for the team,” said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson. If the sampling effort fell short of its 60 gram goal or indeed did not...
15 March 2021
Engineers propose a "Lunar Ark" to preserve millions of species' DNA on the Moon
...at the University of Arizona are proposing an ambitious project to safeguard the future of millions of animal, plant and fungi species on Earth by cryogenically freezing seed, spore, sperm and egg samples in a lunar ark hidden in caves under the Moon...
