Harold Connolly Jr.

There's another PhD thesis.

There's another PhD thesis.

Come on, come on, come on.

That's tough.

Yeah, always right.

That's tough.

Yeah, so the PI had to make some quick decisions with the associate administrator of NASA and other people to basically stow the sample much quicker than we had expected to prevent more from loss.

But of course, as you know, we got 122 grams of sample, 121.6, and we needed to get 60 grams to meet our scientific goals.

That's a great question.

You know, we brought the sample out of the field.

By the way, the sample cavister, the SRC, sample return capsule, landed in the Utah desert basically perfectly in the end.

It had rained there three days earlier, but it chose to land in a dry spot, which was perfect.

And then we take it to a makeshift facility at the UTTR, Utah Test and Training Range.

We get the sample canister and it's, you know, the guts of the sample return capsule out and get it under nitrogen so that the sample is constantly bathed in nitrogen.

So, I mean, that took literally almost four hours to the mark to get that under the perfect timing.

In this case, we have the samples of the nitrogen, so we know what the composition of the nitrogen is.

Not just nitrogen, but its isotope composition, if there's any impurities in it, which of course there's not.

And it doesn't react with normal minerals and rocks in any way, shape, or form.

Okay.

Okay.