NASA's OSIRIS-REx delivers asteroid sample to Earth

A capsule containing rock and dust from asteroid Bennu landed in the Utah desert and was quickly delivered to scientists for analysis on Sept. 24.

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00:00 Wow. Just a sigh of relief from the team. I can hear some applause here. Here is that

00:09 orange creamsicle color parachute. Just a delight, a sweet delight to see.

00:19 And touchdown of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule. A journey of a billion miles to asteroid

00:24 Bennu and back has come to an end, marking America's first sample return mission of its

00:30 kind and opening a time capsule to our ancient solar system. And you can see now the SRC.

00:36 At last we have a visual of it on the surface of the Utah Test and Training Range.

00:41 Recovery operations. Helicopter one is cleared to depart the recovery site with the SRC.

00:47 And we have clearance to depart the recovery site. This is a key moment of those recovery

00:51 operations. We're already getting that SRC out of the landing zone and on its way to

00:55 the Dugway cleanroom. The doors are now open. We are entering into the cleanroom. And that

01:01 SRC is about to be moved off onto our cleanroom fixture. It is in the cleanroom. The SRC from

01:09 the desert of Utah earlier this morning arriving has been successfully delivered.

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