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.
"This is an amazing thing that's going to be influencing science for decades and decades to come, and the fact that Utah and Utahns have a critical role — we have to land these samples somewhere safe, and this is a great place to do that," Glaze said.
About 20 minutes after the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases the sample return capsule on Sunday, the spacecraft will set off on a new mission to explore the asteroid Apophis, on the OSIRIS-APEX mission. It is scheduled to reach Apophis in 2029. The next event happening this fall is the Psyche mission launching on Oct. 5, which will allow NASA to explore an asteroid of the same name, Psyche, to learn more about the origins of the solar system. The spacecraftNASA's Lucy spacecraft, on a 12-year tour of the Trojan asteroid belt in Jupiter's orbit, is also set to approach the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1.
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