Renkey, Assignment #1

Jason Dworkin, project scientist for NASA's OSIRIS-REx project, holds a vial, while team members Hannah McLain, Danielle Simkus, Jamie Elsila Cook, Angel Mojarro, José Aponte, Danny Glavin, and Eric Parker stand beside him in NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center astrobiology lab in Greenbelt, Md.

Astrobiologist Hannah McLain holds the container that a portion of asteroid Bennu was shipped in to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Astrobiologist Hannah McLain holds the container that a portion of asteroid Bennu was shipped in to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Gabriella Weiss and Angela Chung explain lab procedures in the astrobiology lab at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Astrobiologist Hannah McLain pipettes inside a fume hood in the astrobiology lab at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Astrobiologist Danielle Simkus holds up a glass beaker in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Astrobiologist Hannah McLain examines a machine in the astrobiology lab in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.