NASA reviews plan to recover Bennu asteroid sample via OSIRIS-REx

NASA researchers on Wednesday will share how they plan to retrieve rock samples plucked from the surface of an ancient asteroid next month — an unprecedented feat for the United States.

NASA’s news conference is scheduled to begin no earlier than 5:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Aug. 30. Watch it live in the player above.

On Sept. 24, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release a capsule containing the samples it took from the asteroid Bennu before continuing onward to study a different asteroid, named Apophis. That capsule is expected to parachute to Earth and land in the desert at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range.

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