Osiris-REx: Asteroid Samples Land In Utah, Ending 7-Year Mission

Sample Return Capsule lands

Recovery teams prepare the Sample Return Capsule for transport to a temporary cleanroom at the Defense Department's Utah Test and Training Range.

Credit: Keegan Barber/NASA
The largest haul of extraterrestrial samples since Apollo 17 landed in the western Utah desert on Sept. 24, marking the end of a seven-year, 4-billion-mi. mission to the asteroid Bennu in a quest to learn more about the primordial Solar System, resources for potential future exploitation and the...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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