Regolith scraped from the surface of Bennu will reach Earth on 24 September
NASA is preparing to nab its first-ever asteroid sample as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft drops a capsule containing fragments of the potentially hazardous object Bennu onto Earth.
On Wednesday, leaders from NASA working with the US military performed the final dress rehearsal for the return mission, dropping a dummy sample capsule from an aircraft to test its ability to land at a drop zone within the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. When the capsule, estimated to be holding as much as 250 grams of regolith, lands on Earth, it will be carefully retrieved and flown to a clean room on the military range. The pod will be disassembled and shipped to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where the sample will be documented, stored, and distributed to scientists around the world.
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