Osiris-Rex extended a vacuum tube to grab a material sample from Bennu in 2020, punching into the asteroid’s soft surface without actually landing on ... Department’s Utah Test and Training ...

Original article source: NASA prepares for all weather as OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample comes in for landing in Utah desert ...

On September 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the Utah desert, delivering an asteroid sample that NASA has spent nearly 20 years trying to retrieve. Two weeks after touchdown ...

The American space agency Nasa landed the materials in a capsule that came down in the West Desert of Utah state. The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the ...

Before NASA recovered a capsule holding bits of space rock from the desert, the landing sequence for ... preliminary checks on the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission, shortly after ...

A NASA spacecraft will fly on Sunday and drop off pebbles and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu. The capsule holding the sample will parachute into the Utah desert. (Sept. 22) Planet Earth is ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe just nailed its second trial run for a sample collection attempt in October. The goal is to obtain samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu and then return ...

“Touchdown of the Osiris-Rex sample return capsule!” a commentator said on NASA’s live video webcast of the landing ... military’s Utah Test and Training Range. Four years after its 2016 launch, the ...

To collect its asteroid sample ... Within days of the sample's landing in Utah, the team hopes to start analyzing it at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. NASA will also preserve ...