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View or download photos from the Sept. 24 OSIRIS-REx sample-landing activities. View or download OSIRIS-REx mission photos from a curated collection.

At 12:37 a.m. EDT (10:37 a.m. MDT), a helicopter gently placed NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample capsule, attached to the end of a 100-foot cable, on the ground outside a hangar on the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. Two technicians on the ground helped guide the capsule down. Once the helicopter line was detached …

With the sample secured and the area around the sample capsule deemed safe, NASA's OSIRIS-REx team completed the detailed and highly coordinated recovery process (which they have practiced many times in the past year). They placed the 100-pound capsule into a metal cradle and wrapped it in multiple sheets of Teflon and then a tarp. …

Having received the capsule's precise coordinates from radar trackers when it landed, NASA's OSIRIS-REx helicopter recovery team arrived at its landing location within 20 minutes. A U.S. Air Force munitions specialist was the first person to disembark a helicopter. His task was to identify and clear the area around the capsule of any possible munitions …

The U.S. has, for the first time, delivered rocks and dust from an asteroid to Earth. NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample capsule, carrying a sample of asteroid Bennu, touched down on the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range at 10:52 a.m. EDT (8:52 a.m. MDT). Radar data from the Utah Testing and Training Range confirmed …

With the spacecraft diverted away from Earth and traveling toward its new destination, the focus of NASA's OSIRIS-REx team is on the capsule. OSIRIS-REx and military recovery team members aboard four helicopters and two backup ground vehicles are waiting just outside the capsule's designated landing area on the Department of Defense's Utah Test and …

NASA's live coverage of the  OSIRIS-REx  capsule landing has begun on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency's website.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft completed its final task for this mission when it released its sample capsule toward Earth less than an hour ago. About 20 minutes after doing so, the spacecraft fired its engines to divert past Earth toward its new mission to asteroid Apophis and was renamed OSIRIS-APEX. Roughly 1,000 feet wide, Apophis will …

Doppler data indicates that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released its sample capsule toward Earth at 6:42 a.m. EDT (4:42 a.m. MDT), as planned, from 63,000 miles of Earth's surface – about one-third the distance from Earth to the Moon. After traveling for about four hours through space, the capsule will enter the atmosphere off the coast …

Following a team briefing minutes ago, operators gave the "go" for the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to release its sample capsule. The poll of the lead engineers and military personnel was unanimous. Each team lead responded based on a list of criteria. Are projections showing that the capsule will land in its target area? Yes. Do the …