NASA will preserve asteroid samples from OSIRIS-Rex for centuries to come so that scientists not even born yet can study them

• An asteroid sample collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the Utah desert Sunday.
• The landing marked the end of NASA's first ever mission to collect an asteroid sample.
• The rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu will prove useful to scientists for centuries to come.

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid.