Harold Connolly Jr.

So, you know, here we're pushing the frontiers of our...

I have to get a crown tomorrow.

I have to get a crown tomorrow before I move to England for three months.

100%, 100%.

Our scientific goals were to get to an asteroid.

Well, our goals were to get to an asteroid that we could get to safely and come home.

And that was within some kind of cost cap or was it cost prohibited?

And that asteroid we determined to meet our scientific goals has to be a carbonaceous asteroid because we needed to look for what we know already is contained within the asteroids, fragments, meteorites.

scourge of the life, volatiles, et cetera.

I think that's right, Neil.

Yeah, NASA has a mission going to study asteroid Psyche, which is supposed to be an iron-nickel asteroid, but it's not bringing sample back.

It would be a lot harder to drill and actually get a piece of metal out of the asteroid and bring it back.

Yeah, that's a great question.

So the asteroids are considered non-hazardous with respect to any sort of biological threat.

They've been sitting in space for four and a half billion years and been cooked by the sun's radiation and cosmic rays in the background on the surface and are deemed not hazardous with respect to any kind of biological threat.

All right.

So planetary bodies like Mars, that's a whole different issue and requires a whole different set of responsibilities and care that have to be taken if you want to bring sample back from there.

Roughly 122 grams of material.

And that's basically, sounds like it's small, but it's basically a cup full of particles.

But that cup full of particles is a lot.