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NASA scientists prepare the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission for transport shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range, on Sept. 24, 2023. Keegan Barber/NASA/Getty Images
In return for the Canadian Space Agency’s contribution to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, agency scientists will receive a portion of asteroid material collected by the mission.
Samples of Asteroid Bennu landed in the Utah desert on Sept. 24 at 10:52 a.m. Eastern Time, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced in a press release the same day.
