OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Training. The Milky Way is seen above Dugway Proving Ground, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, near Dugway, Utah. Recovery teams met in August for rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and will return to Earth on September 24th, landing under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range.

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