NASA's First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room
September 27, 2023
September 27, 2023
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- NASA issued the following news release on Sept. 25, 2023:
After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security - Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.
After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security - Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu finally is on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.