NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sunday, Sept. 24, with material from asteroid Bennu. When it arrives, the spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert.
The pristine material from Bennu – rocks and dust collected from the asteroid’s surface in 2020 – will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago.
Live coverage of the OSIRIS-REx landing will begin at 10 a.m. EDT on NASA TV.
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