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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Capsule Secured in Utah Clean Room
NASA Official Mission Blog ^
| Sept 24 2023
| Lonnie Shekhtman
Posted on 09/24/2023 4:55:24 PM PDT by texas booster
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About the OSIRIS-REx Mission NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu. When it arrives, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert. The pristine material from Bennu – rocks and dust collected from the asteroid’s surface in 2020 – will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago. Learn more about the OSIRIS-REx mission.
To: texas booster
Sounds like the Andromeda Strain.
To: texas booster
Not politics and not sports related.
The sample from the OSIRIS-REx landed in Utah and is not being prepared for transport to Houston.
A detailed view of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample capsule. The capsule weighs about 100 pounds and is the size of a large truck tire. Credit: Lockheed Martin Space.
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09/24/2023 4:57:32 PM PDT
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texas booster
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A capsule with a sample of asteroid Bennu inside, delivered to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, is seen shortly after touching down on the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. Photo Credit: Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber.
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09/24/2023 4:59:07 PM PDT
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texas booster
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09/24/2023 4:59:37 PM PDT
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frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: texas booster
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09/24/2023 5:02:52 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(Q)
To: texas booster
To: frank ballenger
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09/24/2023 5:03:52 PM PDT
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frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: texas booster
Thanks for the heads up. Killer pictures. Appreciated.
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09/24/2023 5:15:01 PM PDT
by
cabojoe
( 🇺🇸 Stop Ukie censorship. Release Gonzalo Lira)
To: rigelkentaurus
Seen on screens:
ATTEMPT NO LANDING ON BENNU. REPEAT. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LAND ON BENNU.
EUROPA, BENNU - DAMN AUTOCORRECT!
To: texas booster
To: rigelkentaurus
Pick it up
Hell no! You pick it up!
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09/24/2023 5:44:31 PM PDT
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Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: texas booster
Drama builds!
Is it like the mysterious Blue Ice that falls from aircraft lavatories?
I have low expectations that there is anything very special about what they find.
But I have high expectations that details will be dribbled out and used as justification for BILLION$ of new spending. After all, “this will likely result in the cure for [* save this space for a horrible disease *].”
To: hiho hiho
Of course “The Andromeda Strain” (2008 miniseries) had to have a gay character in it. Neither the book or original movie had one but they’re somehow needed these days.
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09/24/2023 6:00:38 PM PDT
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Hillarys Gate Cult
(I stayed drug - free going on 64 years for this?)
To: texas booster
“ Nitrogen is an inert gas… “
WRONG ——-
Nitrogen is NOT inert.
Nitrogen is a very active element.
It is an atom in the molecules of most explosives.
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09/24/2023 6:10:41 PM PDT
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Reynoldo
(BurnLootMurde)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Well, they made Dr. Peter Leavitt in the book a woman to make the cast ‘more diverse’ for the movie in ‘71.
It’s just Hollyweird.
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09/24/2023 6:11:27 PM PDT
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logi_cal869
(-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
To: texas booster; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; Carriage Hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; ...
They used a Helicopter to move that little pissant thing ?!?!?!
}{€££ a Flog Cart could have done that as the fuel is whole lot cheaper.
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09/24/2023 6:20:49 PM PDT
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mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
To: texas booster
So... NASA has a team of engineers and scientists that can launch a rocket from earth, launch a probe from the rocket, land on a meteor half a billion miles away moving at 50,000 miles an hour, take off from the meteor, return to earth, drop a package in the desert, but STILL fail their number one mission;
Making Muslims feel good about themselves.....
(Remember the project engineer who was forced to publicly flagellate himself for the successful Rosetta mission because ehe wore a bikini girl shirt (a woman gave him)?)
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09/24/2023 6:22:50 PM PDT
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Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: Reynoldo
Gaseous N2 is very inert.
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09/24/2023 6:24:42 PM PDT
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: rigelkentaurus
IKR im going to watch that tonight
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09/24/2023 6:38:52 PM PDT
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al baby
(I know its the way the measure the cooling capability )
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