In this handout provided by NASA, the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, on September 24, 2023 at the Department of Defense's ...

Released from the OSIRIS-REx mothership four hours earlier, the 110-pound 31-inch-wide sample return capsule, loaded with a half-pound of rocks and soil collected in 2020 from an asteroid known as ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe captured photos during the release of its return capsule last month, preserving the historic moment for posterity. Those images, which the space agency released on ...

Four helicopters transported recovery and research teams to the landing site and conducted assessments to make sure the capsule wasn’t damaged in any way, said Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx project ...

Seven years after the NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx first launched from American soil in 2016, the Sample Return Capsule — or SRC — made a relatively gentle landing inside the Utah Test and ...

Update: Touchdown of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return capsule in the desert of Utah at 10:52 a.m. EDT Sunday. Screaming into Earth's atmosphere Sunday at 7 miles per second, a precious ½ ...

Each second of the capsule's descent has been calculated in anticipation for NASA's first asteroid sample return mission. It's been seven years since the launch of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to ...

Lockheed Martin system safety engineer Victoria Theim checks out the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule after its Utah desert landing. (NASA Photo / Keegan Barber) Seven years and 4 billion miles af ...

Scientists painstakingly cleaned and shipped the capsule to Johnson Space Center ... Following him, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta showed four more finely detailed images of ...

That’s when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to swing by Earth and drop a tire-sized capsule to the ground. Carefully packed inside are a couple of ounces of space rocks and dust ...