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  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
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Watch a spacecraft deliver an asteroid sample to Earth! Our OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft is approaching Earth, and on Sept. 24, 2023, it will release its sample return capsule into the atmosphere on a path to land at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range.

The touchdown will mark the end of a seven-year journey to explore asteroid Bennu, collect a sample from its surface, and deliver it to Earth as the U.S’s first pristine asteroid sample.

 

 

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  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
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Looks to be a good return albeit a slight hiccup with the drogue chutes opening earlier than planned.

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