Sometimes, things actually go according to plan: On a Sunday morning, high above a Utah sagebrush flat, an orange-and-white parachute floated to Earth bearing cargo retrieved from 200 million miles away.
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Everything must go smoothly when the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft will release its capsule with pristine asteroid material to land in the Utah desert in September. Members of the mission team gathered at Lockheed Martin campus in Littleton, Co., to rehearse their roles and procedures to recover the capsule and its precious cargo as safely and quickly as possible once it has touched
Agreeing to send a spacecraft to an asteroid to bring back a sample was no easy decision, Dante Lauretta, the leader of NASA's UArizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission, told graduates. They, too, will face daunting opportunities in their careers, he said – and they should say yes.
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