A sample collected from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will return to Earth on September 24, landing under parachute in Utah.
The capsule will enter Earth’s atmosphere at 7:42 a.m. and land 13 minutes later within a 37-mile by 9-mile ellipse.
A post-landing news conference is planned for about 5:00 p.m. EDT, which you can watch on NASA TV, the NASA app and the agency’sIf there are technical problems on Sept. 24. and the spacecraft can’t release the capsule to safely land on Earth then there’s a backup opportunity in 2025.... [+]The OSIRIS-REx team has undergone extensive training and rehearsals for this final part of the mission, the most recent an end-to-end capsule retrieval exercise on Tuesday, Aug. 29 at the U.S.
Once it’s landed and packed-up for safe travel it will be flown by helicopter to a temporary clean room. Crews will also collect soil and air samples all around the landing capsule so that the researchers can identify any tiny contaminants found later in the asteroid sample. “Once the sample capsule touches down, our team will be racing against the clock to recover it and get it to the safety of a temporary clean room,”Mike Moreau, deputy project manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. in a press release.
The space agency will host a post-landing briefing about 90 minutes after the sample capsule arrives. This will also be livestreamed.
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