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Sample Return Capsule: 24 September 2023, 14:52 UTC [4] Landing site: Utah Test and Training Range [4] ... (OSIRIS-REx was still in the return phase), NASA and JAXA ...
NASA scientists collect data shortly after the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission landed at the Defense Department's Utah Test and Training Range on Sept. 24, 2023.
Launched in 2016, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx for short, traveled to the asteroid – about 200 million miles away ...
If successful, the OSIRIS-REx mission, a joint effort between NASA and scientists at the University of Arizona, would mark the third asteroid sample, and by far the largest, ever returned to Earth ...
OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and reached Bennu in 2018, then spent nearly two years orbiting the asteroid before venturing close enough to snatch a sample of the loose surface material ...
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission shortly after touching down in the desert in Utah. A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions may bring back merely atoms and molecules or a deposit of complex compounds ...
OSIRIS-REx return capsule after landing at UTTR in 2023. The site has also been used as a landing site for sample return in NASA's planetary science missions, including comet material in the Stardust mission and the OSIRIS-REx mission to return material from asteroid (101955) Bennu. [4] [5]
NASA Sample Return Capsule Science Lead Scott Sandford, NASA Astromaterials Curator Francis McCubbin and University of Arizona OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta (left to right ...