'From this point on, we know what to do. We're safe. We're home. We did it'
But emotions were much higher aboard one of the helicopters waiting for the capsule. , principal investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission, described what was going through his mind while riding in a recovery helicopter to the capsule's landing zone. Lauretta was on his way to see if the mission he'd spent two decades of his life planning for would end with a successful recovery or with a smoking crater in the Utah desert.
Lauretta elaborated more about the tension and release he experienced as he waited to hear if the capsule's parachute had fully opened as it sped through the atmosphere."I knew things were supposed to be happening on a nominal timeline; that I wasn't getting call outs. But again, we could have just have radio dropouts there. And then we heard 'main chute detected,' and I literally broke into tears.
From their vantage points on the ground and in multiple aircraft providing live footage of the capsule's return to Earth, recovery teams were unable to see if the 31.5-inche drogue chute had deployed at 102,300 feet as planned.
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