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Bennu and some of the biggest science questions of our generation
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Watch the news tomorrow morning (Sunday). NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will bring samples from the asteroid Bennu and land them in a Utah desert. The following article from NPR radio includes a 3 minute listen and a YouTube video.
NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash
If all goes as planned, on Sunday morning a bell-shaped space capsule the size of a mini-fridge will come screaming down through the atmosphere toward a Utah desert.
Inside will be some precious cargo: about a cup's worth of rock and dust that a NASA spacecraft collected from an asteroid called Bennu that was, at the time, more than 200 million miles away.
This will be the biggest amount of extraterrestrial material to be brought back to Earth by any nation since the Apollo astronauts hauled home moon rocks, and it's the culmination of NASA's first mission to bring home samples of an asteroid.
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The OSIRISREx spacecraft has released the capsule containing a piece of asteroid Bennu. The capsule will plummet through space for four hours, enter the atmosphere over California and land about 13 minutes later in Utah.
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The Asteroid Sample. It has cost maybe somewhere between $800 million to $1 billion
If you compare to the price of a Mars sample which no agency has sampled from Mars, the MSR has been costing $4.4 billion, Mars Sample Return has been predicted to rise to budgets of $8 billion to $11 billion.
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Touchdown! sample has landed on Earth
it seems to have landed a little ahead of schedule with variation in weather conditions
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We've spotted the OSIRISREx capsule on the ground, the parachute has separated, and the helicopters are arriving at the site. We're ready to recover that sample!
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After a journey of nearly 3.9 billion miles, the OSIRISREx asteroid sample return capsule is back on Earth. Teams perform the initial safety assessment—the first persons to come into contact with this hardware since it was on the other side of the solar system.
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OSIRIS-REx: The recovery team confirms the sample return capsule is fully intact, with no breaches, after its dramatic descent to Earth
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After NASA's epic OSIRIS-REx capsule landing success, spacecraft heads to asteroid Apophis on new mission
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At last! NASA finally frees lid of asteroid Bennu sample capsule
opening the cache was stopped by 2 screws that did not want to loosen up.
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