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A capsule carrying a sample of rocks and dust from an asteroid landed successfully in the Utah desert Sunday morning and a Colorado team helped make it possible.
Although its main mission is now complete, the journey of OSIRIS-REx is only half-done as NASA re-routes it to study near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis.
Initiated in 2016 and reaching asteroid Bennu in 2018, NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft embarked on an ambitious mission: to gather a sample of asteroid rocks and soil. The pinnacle of this mission was reached in 2020 when the spacecraft successfully collected the sample.
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out.
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out.