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 ...

The sample canister which landed in the Utah desert on 24 September has been opened but its inner chamber used by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft to store the asteroid fragments for the journey home has ...

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 ...

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid ... sample capsule from OSIRIS-REx — which NASA calls the daredevil spacecraft — landed in the Utah ...

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 ...

After nearly three years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to finally deliver the largest asteroid sample ever to the Utah desert at approximately 10:55 a.m. ET. That's right, an asteroid sample is ...