Stay updated with breaking news from Sample Return Day. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsu
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex
To everyone's relief, the capsule was intact and not breached, keeping its 4.5 billion-year-old samples free of contamination.
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journ
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule fro...