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NASA to Host Media for Asteroid Capsule Drop Test Briefing in Utah
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range.
Credits: NASA/Keegan Barber
Media are invited to Utah’s western desert on Wednesday, Aug. 30, to learn about NASA preparations and readiness to receive America’s first asteroid sample collected in space.
As part of the visit, NASA will host a news conference on the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) sample capsule’s landing and recovery plans from the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range no earlier than 5 p.m. EDT (3 p.m. MDT). The news conference will air on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
In addition to the news conference, in-person participants will have the opportunity to interview OSIRIS-REx mission team members, tour the temporary clean room where the sample capsule will be dissembled, and visit the edge of the capsule’s landing area.
News conference participants are:
Melissa Morris, OSIRIS-REx program executive, NASA Headquarters, Washington
Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator, University of Arizona, Tucson
Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Sandra Freund, OSIRIS-REx program manager, Lockheed Martin, Littleton, Colorado
Kevin Righter, OSIRIS-REx deputy curation lead, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston
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