A suitcase packed with asteroid rocks will enter Earth’s atmosphere and land in Utah after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up the material from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020. This will mark the first U.S. attempt to collect and return asteroid samples, following Japan.
Schedule:
10 a.m. ET—NASA coverage begins
10:42 a.m. ET—capsule enters Earth’s atmosphere
10:55 a.m. ET—estimated landing time
