A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop onto Utah pebbles and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu to close out a seven-year journey. The capsule holding the sample will parachute into the Utah desert.
as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid.
"I ask myself how many heart-pounding moments can you have in one lifetime because I feel like I might be hitting my limit," said the University of Arizona's Dante Lauretta, the mission's lead scientist.Asteroid chaser Osiris-Rex blasted off on the $1 billion mission in 2016. It arrived at Bennu in 2018 and spent the next two years flying around the small spinning space rock and scouting out the best place to grab samples.
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals to prepare for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range on Aug. 29. On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will fly by Earth and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing out a seven-year quest.
The release command will come from spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin's control center in Colorado. Soon afterward, the mothership will steer away and take off to explore another asteroid. The capsule — nearly 3 feet wide and 1.6 feet tall — will hit the atmosphere at 27,650 mph for the final 13 minutes of descent remaining.
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