--- title: NASA's First Asteroid Samples Streak Toward Earth After Spacecraft Release | TIME description: A space capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples touched down in the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released the capsule, which contained an estimated 8.8 ounces of rubble from the carbon-rich asteroid known as Bennu, from 63,000 miles out. canonical: https://time.com/video/NDv8lGjD/ og:title: NASA's First Asteroid Samples Streak Toward Earth After Spacecraft Release og:description: A space capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples touched down in the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: NASA's First Asteroid Samples Streak Toward Earth After Spacecraft Release [Watch (HLS stream): NASA's First Asteroid Samples Streak Toward Earth After Spacecraft Release](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/NDv8lGjD.m3u8) (2:18)  _Published 2023-09-25. A space capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples touched down in the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released the capsule, which contained an estimated 8.8 ounces of rubble from the carbon-rich asteroid known as Bennu, from 63,000 miles out._ --- Oct 18, 2023 8:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Punched an Asteroid in the Name of Science](/video/dP4RS0hd/) ### NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Punched an Asteroid in the Name of Science [NASA on the Halloween Asteroid](/video/01OQU3jl/) ### NASA on the Halloween Asteroid [NASA_asteroid](/video/na1M4vgn/) ### NASA\_asteroid --- ## Transcript 50 miles an hour. You can see it glowing brightly in the sky. Networks of piping and tubing leading into that sample canister Within. They have confirmed Heritage deployment. Exhilarating squeak across first atmosphere. We have parachute deployment. You can see this movie first, hit the top of the atmosphere. We are at 27600 you see the reaction. They're just moments ago as they got that simple back on the ground is the team at Lockheed celebrating that momentous achievement getting a sample. Original expectation was about 5,000. The helicopter pilot is actually removed. One of the doors on the helicopters has been assisting with that final, part of the lift and it is now airborne It's just been amazing. And I'll also just say what you saw executed today, that Precision everything going just almost perfectly to plan that happens because of an incredible team, hundreds and hundreds of people was like, seeing an old friend that you haven't seen for a long time and it was great to see it. It was just great to see it. I did want to give it a hug but you know how I knew it'd be all city in and we're trying to collect environmental samples so that we really would have gone over. Well but yeah, it was amazing. I was there when it was encapsulated in the fairing I was there when it was assembled and it was installed on the spacecraft. 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