NASA’s first spacecraft to collect a sample from an asteroid will complete its ... 24 with the help of a parachute in Utah. The landing zone is within a 250-square-mile area at the Department ...

and then scientists picked a landing site. [Read more: Utah right place to land the Bennu asteroid sample, NASA OSIRIS-REx leaders say] After mapping the asteroid using technology developed and ...

The asteroid sample is expected to land in Utah on September ... and send it on its way to the designated Utah landing target. The sample will travel about 63,000 miles in about four hours for ...

Scientists are exulting over the safe arrival of a canister containing about a cup’s worth of asteroid rocks ... off by a helicopter after landing to Earth in Utah. Researchers anticipate ...

An asteroid sample collected by NASA ... at 11 miles per hour (17.7 kilometers per hour). The sample landed in the Defense Department’s Utah Test and Training Range about 10 minutes after ...

The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid ... Sunday's landing concludes a 4 billion ...

A NASA director invited Utahns to watch the asteroid sample mission landing in the Utah desert this Sunday, and shared information about other upcoming missions Thursday. Like other asteroids ...

TOOELE COUNTY, Utah — Scientists have long studied how life on Earth began, but a NASA mission to capture a sample of an asteroid may unlock some answers — and Dugway Proving Ground in Utah ...

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LOS ANGELES, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A NASA space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material ... through the atmosphere and a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday. Weather forecasts were ...

NASA asteroid sample lands safely in Utah before being whisked away by helicopter ... and boy did we stick that landing." He's eager to start analyzing the asteroid rock, to see what surprises ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, carrying a sample of material from an asteroid, is set to make a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday. The mission, a collaboration between NASA and the ...