A capsule carrying rocky debris from asteroid Bennu is about to streak through the sky above Utah.
The recovery teams are confident, but they know nothing can be taken for granted.
"We understand the error that occurred on Genesis which was some gravity switches were installed upside down," said Richard Witherspoon from capsule manufacturer Lockheed Martin. "That makes recovery with vehicles, ground vehicles, difficult," said Dan Ruth, the chief meteorologist at the US Army's Dugway base.
It is in this sterile cabin that the inner canister containing the Bennu samples will be enclosed in nitrogen for onward transport to Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Texas where the detailed analysis can begin.
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