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Utah is right place to land the Bennu asteroid sample, NASA OSIRIS-REx leaders say

Three years after the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, it will return a sample of the asteroid to our planet in September.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Members of the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission on July. 20, 2023 share their plan to return a sample of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu to the Utah Test and Training Range later this fall in a truck-sized capsule. The capsule example pictured will deploy a parachute before crews transport it to a clean room on site.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Members of the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission on July. 20, 2023 share their plan to return a sample of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu to the Utah Test and Training Range later this fall in a truck-sized capsule. The capsule example pictured will deploy a parachute before crews transport it to a clean room on site.

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