NASA's first asteroid sample recovery mission will return a sample from asteroid Bennu on September 24.
The capsule will perform its parachute-assisted landing in the Utah desert, signaling the start of the recovery operation. The pressure will be on as the ground team will have to make sure it transports the sample to a clean room as quickly as possible to avoid any contamination.
To be precise, they will locate the sample capsule and hook it to a helicopter, which will transport it to a temporary clean room.Last week, the recovery team collected rock samples about 80 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, roughly at the same location where the real asteroid sample will land. They used the Earth rock samples to perform a recovery rehearsal, including a helicopter ride for the simulated sample.
When the real recovery operation takes place, the team will also collect rock samples from near the sample capsule to help determine whether any contamination may have entered the capsule or not.The OSIRIS-REx mission is NASA's first-ever attempt at retrieving a sample from an asteroid.
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