Category: Science

OSIRIS-REx on its Way Back to Earth With Asteroid Samples

Members of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation team work with a glove box at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The curation team will be among the first to see and handle the sample OSIRIS-REx is returning from asteroid Bennu. They are also responsible for storing and distributing the sample to science team members around the world. Most of the sample will be stored for future generations.

Members of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation team work with a glove box at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The curation team will be among the first to see and handle the sample OSIRIS-REx is returning from asteroid Bennu. They are also responsible for storing and distributing the sample to science team members around the world. Most of the sample will be stored for future generations. Image credit NASA Johnson/Bill Stafford

Space Notes:  Scottish SF Writers

Angus MacVicar, The Lost Planet 1953 front cover of the book showing the space craft

“In the 1940s and 50s the first flowering of Scottish space fiction was on radio, with young adult fiction by John Keir Cross from Carluke  (The Angry Planet, Return to Mars)  and Angus MacVicar from Campbeltown, two of whose Lost Planet serials also made it to television”

#Cancer Research Reveals Orkney Genetic Link

Prof Zosia is looking straight at the camera. She is in her whites and in her lab surrounded by research materials.

“Many people who have the gene alteration are unaware of it. Not everyone wants to have a genetic test that looks into their future. In the long run we want to make a test available to those with Westray grandparents who want to know if they have the gene variant” Professor Zosia Miedzybrodzka, Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Aberdeen