Mikenzie Hammel joined the KGUN 9 team in the summer of 2023 as a multimedia reporter. She graduated from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism with her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.
TUCSON, Ariz. — NASA announced earlier this week its OSIRIS-REx team — which recovered samples from the ancient asteroid Bennu — has won the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy.
She said she remembers “watching that sample, capsule tumbling through the air, just anticipating waiting for the big moment when the parachute would deploy."“It didn’t just contain rocks and atoms from the early solar system," Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta said."It was filled with the hopes and dreams of thousands of people who worked to make this mission a success.”
“We were expecting things that were mostly two centimeters in size, so to get something this big is really exciting and there’s going to be a lot of science in the future," Bennett explained, holding a 3-D print of the largest asteroid piece.
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