NASA’s OSIRIS-REx capsule carrying largest asteroid samples lands on Earth | Oneindia News

The largest sample ever collected from an asteroid in space, and the first for NASA, landed in the Utah desert Sunday after a fiery final descent through Earth's atmosphere, seven years after the mission's launch.

In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 100,000 km (63,000 miles) out.

The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid.

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