'Touchdown:' NASA's asteroid sample comes blasting down to Earth landing in Utah

NASA's tire-size space capsule carrying pieces of the asteroid Bennu came barreling through Earth's atmosphere at 27,000 mph from deep space and successfully plopped down in the desert in Utah during Sunday's planned landing.

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