Recovery teams prepare the Sample Return Capsule for transport to a temporary cleanroom at the Defense Department's Utah Test and Training Range.
Credit: Keegan Barber/NASA
The largest haul of extraterrestrial samples since Apollo 17 landed in the western Utah desert on Sept. 24, marking the end of a seven-year, 4-billion-mi. mission to the asteroid Bennu in a quest to learn more about the primordial Solar System, resources for potential future exploitation and the...
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