OSIRIS-REx Sample Return. A C-17 Globemaster aircraft with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission aboard takes off from Michael Army Air Field at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, en route to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

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