{"id":171313,"date":"2023-09-05T03:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/countdown-to-history-nasas-osiris-rex-preps-for-epic-asteroid-delivery"},"modified":"2023-09-05T03:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:22:27","slug":"countdown-to-history-nasas-osiris-rex-preps-for-epic-asteroid-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/countdown-to-history-nasas-osiris-rex-preps-for-epic-asteroid-delivery","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to History: NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx Preps for Epic Asteroid Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/countdown-to-history-nasas-osiris-rex-preps-for-epic-asteroid-delivery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by NASA in Utah\u2019s West Desert is in the final stages of preparing for the arrival of the first U.S. asteroid sample \u2013 slated to land on Earth in this month.<\/p>\n<p>A mockup of NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/osiris-rex\">Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security\u2013Regolith Explorer<\/a>) sample capsule was dropped last Wednesday from an aircraft and landed at the drop zone at the Department of Defense\u2019s Utah Test and Training Range in the desert outside Salt Lake City. This was part of the mission\u2019s final major test prior to the arrival of the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/osiris-rex-heading-home-with-abundant-sample-of-asteroid-bennu\/\">actual capsule<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/a-race-against-time-nasa-readies-for-historic-asteroid-sample-delivery\/\">September 24<\/a> with its <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/asteroid-bennu-sample-successfully-stowed-by-nasas-osiris-rex-for-return-to-earth\/\">sample<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/incredible-feat-nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-successfully-touches-asteroid-bennu\/\">asteroid Bennu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images-prove-nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-collected-overflowing-sample-from-asteroid\/\">collected in space<\/a> almost three years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by NASA in Utah\u2019s West Desert is in the final stages of preparing for the arrival of the first U.S. asteroid sample \u2013 slated to land on Earth in this month. A mockup of NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security\u2013Regolith Explorer) sample capsule was dropped last Wednesday from an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}