'Touchdown of the Osiris-Rex sample return capsule!' a commentator said on NASA's live video webcast of the landing.
DUGWAY, United States -- A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.
The Osiris-Rex probe's final, fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere was perilous, but NASA managed to engineer a soft landing at 8:52 am local , in the military's Utah Test and Training Range. Osiris-Rex released the capsule early Sunday -- from an altitude of more than 67,000 miles -- some four hours before it landed.
NASA images showed the tire-sized capsule on the ground in a desert wash, with scientists approaching the device and taking readings.
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