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Experts from NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission give an overview on the asteroid sample capsule's landing and recovery plans set for Sept. 24, 2023.
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
On Sept. 24, the OSIRIS-REX spacecraft will approach Earth and 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 event makes it the first U.S. asteroid sample return
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After launching to the International Space Station on March 2, 2023, NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission is wrapping up its time in orbit, with a return to Earth in early September 2023.
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev spent their months on the orbiting lab conducting scientific investigations and technology demonstrations, including running a student robotic challenge, studying plant genetic adaptations to space, and monitoring human health in microgravity to prepare for exploration beyond low Earth orbit and to benefit life on Earth.
The astronauts also released Saskatchewan's first satellite, which tests a new radiation detection and protection system derived from melanin.
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