This is CBSI in the world, I'm John Bachelor, Hotel Mars.

David Livingston, Dr. Space is my colleague and co-pilot, Hotel Mars to this stark headline.

NASA, Beno Asteroid samples contain water, carbon, and organic, quote, building blocks

of life.

It's a great pleasure to look at the breaking news of Beno, the sample return from the Asteroid

Beno by Osiris Rex, and to welcome Professor Harold Connolly, Professor at Rowan University,

but most importantly for this conversation, Mission Sample Scientist Osiris Rex.

The cup runneth over, the return of the spacecraft, lander, with the sample inside while Osiris

Rex goes to other mission.

However, the sample we're told in the original news reporting was so

bountiful, it's spilled out of the container. They have lots of it. What is it?

David Livingston is here and we're both going to explore with Harold. Professor,

a very good evening to you. Congratulations. And now the hard part, what are we looking at?

What are they talking about the building blocks of life? What does that mean? Good evening to you,

Harold.

Good evening, gentlemen. Thank you very, very much. It's wonderful to be back here with you again.

You have been with me on this road to success of bringing it back to sample over the many years.

I think this is our ninth interview together. So thank you very much. And we are very excited

about our sample of Asteroid Beno. It is a rock, at least what we've seen so far. And as you might

know, there was a big press conference by NASA and we have discovered clay minerals in the

earliest phase of our analysis of material from Asteroid Beno. And that means that these minerals

actually contain water. They are bound and trapped water in their structure as well as a lot of

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