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You're looking at

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live pictures of the sky

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above the Utah test

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and training range

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in less than an hour,

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a four and a half

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billion year

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old piece of the ancient

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solar system

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will be landing

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here in the desert.

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This is live coverage of NASA's

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Osiris-rex sample return.

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There's been nothing

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like Osiris-rex

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in NASA's repertoire.

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I like to call it

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the Daredevil spacecraft.

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10 seconds.

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Nine, eight, seven, six,

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five, four, three,

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two, one.

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And liftoff.

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The most serious Rex.

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Its seventh year mission

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to boldly

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go to the asteroid

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Bennu and back.

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Welcome

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and thank you for joining us

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live from the Army's Dugway

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Proving Ground in Dugway, Utah.

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This is

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special coverage of America's

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first asteroid sample

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return mission osiris-rex

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as it arrives

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back to Earth

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after more than seven years

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traveling in deep space.

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I'm Lauren Ward.

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And joining me is Dr.

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Jim Garvin,

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chief scientist at NASA's

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Goddard Space Flight Center.

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He's a planetary geologist

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by training

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and also probably

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one of the most excited

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people around here today.

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Literally, I'm

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over the asteroid

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better than over the

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moon, over the asteroid.

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Well, I'm excited to share

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the stage with you today.

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We've got a lot to discuss

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and a huge adventure

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straight ahead.

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And for those joining at home,

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Jim and I will be taking

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your questions

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live throughout the show.

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You can send those our way

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by using the hashtag Ask

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X which

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and if you want

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to follow along, that's fine.

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I want to ask you all

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to check out NASA's

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eyes on the solar system,

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where you can view

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a complete 3D simulation

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and follow the Osiris-rex

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sample return

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capsule to the ground.

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And during the broadcast,

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you'll hear directly

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from the mission team.

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So listen

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very closely

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for those operational call outs

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before we get into the action,

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though.

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Tell me, Jim,

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what are you

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Laurent It's

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the masterpiece of engineering

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we have here.

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Just think about this.

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In 50 years, we've gone from

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from bringing things

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on the moon back with crews

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to all robotic

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sample return for science.

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That's literally beyond words.

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It's sublime,

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so we can't wait

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to see what we're going to.

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We cannot wait.

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So OSIRIS-REX is an acronym

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for Origins

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Spectral Interpretation

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to identify Purity.

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REGULUS Explorer.

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Yes, it's a mouthful,

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but the mission describes

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an audacious objective

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Send a probe on a long journey

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to an asteroid, map

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it, grab a sample,

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then bring it back to Earth

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for analysis.

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Following launch on September

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8th. 2016.

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the plucky probe took

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an extraordinary route

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through the solar system

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until it reached

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the asteroid Bennu.

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Then, after more than a year

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of mapping the surface

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in exquisite detail,

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Osiris Matt

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Rex made a careful descent

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to collect a sample.

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Three years later,

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we are here at Dugway

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in the deserts of northeast

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northeast Utah, rather

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awaiting that capsule

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containing the sample,

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which experts tell us

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is essentially a time

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capsule of the ancient

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We've got a great team

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joining us this morning

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as we experience

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this thrilling conclusion

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of this grand adventure.

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Sophia Roberts is located

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near our landing zone

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and she'll be speaking

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with some key players.

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also hear from James truly,

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who will be tracking

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which sounds to me

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like a good place

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to jump into the story.

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James, good morning.

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How are we looking?

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Yeah, good morning, Leon.

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And Jim.

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been a very bright

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for all of our team members

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north from us about 4 hours ago

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the team met to assess

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that they gave the green light

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plotting and dreaming

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about this asteroid. Bennu.

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The CRC has now been separated

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rain or shine today.

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just enough to make the

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there, calm

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this morning as well.

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I saw a shooting

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star, a meteor.

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will be streaking

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to head out to wait

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of the landing ellipse,

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our high altitude

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plane is up in the sky,

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ready to take images

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in the infrared of our SIRC.

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And we are here

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ready to go to cover

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all of today's mission events.

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I'm going to be right here

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with you

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all throughout the process

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as we get closer to that entry,

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descent and landing.

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But for now, back to you

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learning, Jim.

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All right.

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Thanks, James.

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We'll be back to you

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for mission status updates

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throughout the morning.

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geography lesson

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on where we are today.

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We are sitting about 85 miles

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southwest of Salt Lake City

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in the heart of the Dugway

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a historic Army facility.

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In less than an hour,

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the sample will touch down

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in our landing ellipse

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and Training range,

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about 13 miles north of where

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Mission teams have set up

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a clean room

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just one mile away from us,

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where the sample will end

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its journey today.

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Tomorrow morning, a C-17

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and deliver the sample

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Space Center in Houston.

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Unbelievable. Can't wait.

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I can't wait to see that C-17.

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We have a lot

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of ground to cover

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and we'll be bringing you

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into the heart of the action

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for all of NASA's

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Osiris-rex lives

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in an extremely rare category.

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It not only ventured

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with cameras and sensors,

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but it's bringing

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a physical sample

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of the ancient solar system

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back to Earth

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for a detailed analysis.

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Mission planners selected

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a small asteroid called

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Bennu as their destination,

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following a successful

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touch and go procedure

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to grab a sample

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on October 20th, 2020.

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Osiris-rex

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has been making its

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way back to Earth.

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It's been a thrilling

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ride, already

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packed with

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technical achievements

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and scientific discoveries.

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Today's historic landing

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continues that saga

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promising

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exciting research ahead.

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Beside our main event

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this morning,

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we've got a ton

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of extremely cool stuff.

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We'll hear

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from a special guest,

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astrophysicist,

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this whom

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you probably recognize

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more for his chart toppers.

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We'll speak with one of the

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helicopter pilots

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about his role

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in getting recovery

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teams out to the landing site

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and bringing the

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capsule back home.

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And we'll even hear

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from the cast of the film

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Asteroid City.

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And, of course,

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we'll give you a front row

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seat to the mission itself,

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the science,

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the engineering

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and why a mission to gather

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space rocks.

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Well, rocks, right.

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NASA's first

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asteroid sample

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return happens

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in less than 35 minutes.

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Let's now

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take you to a big mountain

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where our field

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reporter, Sophia

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Roberts, is standing

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at the forward

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edge of the vast landing zone

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where she joins us live now.

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So thank you, Anderson.

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Lord and Jim.

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Now, it is a bright

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and chilly morning,

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but the excitement

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certainly is rising.

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Now, let me give you

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a lay of the land of

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what is going to happen today.

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The sample return capsule

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is going to hit

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the top of the atmosphere

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at approximately 840.

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It will descend

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through our atmosphere

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for 13 minutes

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before touchdown.

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Once it does touchdown,

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our team

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with a recovery team

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will go to the sample

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or the capsule

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and start

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that carefully rehearsed

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recovery process.

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Now I am on the edge

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of the landing zone

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that we called the Ellipse.

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It is a huge landing zone

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that is larger

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than the size of Rhode Island.

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And behind me

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are the helicopters

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that will be taking

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those recovery

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teams to the capsule

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once it lands.

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Now, these teams are prepped

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and ready to go.

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We are just waiting

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for that capsule to arrive.

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Back to you, Lauren.

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Well, Sophia, I

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think she has the best seat.

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Oh, my God. Take me.

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Take me there.

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I want to go there.

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All right,

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let's get some quick facts

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about the Osiris-rex spacecraft

416
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filled with fuel.

417
00:09:01.774 --> 00:09:02.491
The vehicle weighs

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more than 40 £600.

419
00:09:04.510 --> 00:09:05.761
That's about the same size

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as three large cows.

421
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Did you know that?

422
00:09:07.763 --> 00:09:08.347
I did not.

423
00:09:08.347 --> 00:09:09.982
And I'm afraid of those cows.

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Let's stay away from the cows.

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With its solar arrays extended,

426
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the spacecraft

427
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is about 40 feet long

428
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or the size of a

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short school bus.

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The solar arrays

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can power up to 3000 watts,

432
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which is the same

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as a portable generator.

434
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Once on Bennu, the 11 foot

435
00:09:23.362 --> 00:09:24.397
robotic arm collected

436
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dust and pebbles samples

437
00:09:26.198 --> 00:09:28.267
while the cameras got up close

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images of the asteroid.

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How about that?

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And then,

441
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of course,

442
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there's the RC

443
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or the sample return capsule.

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The capsule

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that separated from

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00:09:36.309 --> 00:09:37.226
the main vehicle

447
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is currently on its way

448
00:09:38.160 --> 00:09:39.579
to our landing zone

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in the Utah desert.

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So, Jim, I think importantly,

451
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the team can't just open up

452
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the capsule

453
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right on the desert floor.

454
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Right. What happens next?

455
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So next, we have to save it.

456
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We have to bag it.

457
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We have to contain it

458
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and transported

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to the clean room

460
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about a mile from here.

461
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And in that clean room,

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we will actually bring

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the sample return capsule in,

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take off their back shell

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and the heat shield,

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and carefully

467
00:10:00.833 --> 00:10:02.702
arrange to nitrogen purge

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00:10:02.702 --> 00:10:03.836
that special sample

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00:10:03.836 --> 00:10:05.004
container inside

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00:10:05.004 --> 00:10:06.355
so it does not introduce

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00:10:06.355 --> 00:10:08.074
any contamination from Earth

472
00:10:08.074 --> 00:10:09.325
because we want asteroid,

473
00:10:09.325 --> 00:10:11.127
not earth. That's right.

474
00:10:11.127 --> 00:10:12.478
And I love missions like this

475
00:10:12.478 --> 00:10:13.112
because I find my

476
00:10:13.112 --> 00:10:14.347
own imagination just bursting

477
00:10:14.347 --> 00:10:15.214
with possibilities

478
00:10:15.214 --> 00:10:16.382
and questions.

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00:10:16.382 --> 00:10:18.634
And so with about a little bit

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more than 30 minutes to go

481
00:10:19.885 --> 00:10:21.003
before the SLC hits

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00:10:21.003 --> 00:10:22.204
the top of the atmosphere,

483
00:10:22.204 --> 00:10:22.805
we're going to take

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a few minutes

485
00:10:23.489 --> 00:10:24.457
to dive into the nuts

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00:10:24.457 --> 00:10:25.408
and bolts of the mission

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itself.

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We've got a great mission

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00:10:27.176 --> 00:10:28.527
over here to help explain.

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00:10:28.527 --> 00:10:31.547
Take a look.

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00:10:31.614 --> 00:10:32.965
Osiris-rex is

492
00:10:32.965 --> 00:10:34.433
NASA's first asteroid

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00:10:34.433 --> 00:10:36.085
sample return mission.

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00:10:36.085 --> 00:10:38.337
It launched in September 2016

495
00:10:38.337 --> 00:10:38.971
on a journey

496
00:10:38.971 --> 00:10:39.639
to explore

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00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:40.890
a near-Earth asteroid

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00:10:40.890 --> 00:10:42.208
called Bennu.

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00:10:42.208 --> 00:10:44.093
After arriving in 2018,

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00:10:44.093 --> 00:10:45.328
Osiris-rex spent

501
00:10:45.328 --> 00:10:46.379
nearly two years

502
00:10:46.379 --> 00:10:47.430
orbiting Bennu,

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00:10:47.430 --> 00:10:48.481
mapping and studying

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00:10:48.481 --> 00:10:49.565
its rugged terrain

505
00:10:49.565 --> 00:10:50.666
before carrying out

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00:10:50.666 --> 00:10:53.035
its primary science objective.

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00:10:53.035 --> 00:10:54.954
On October 20th, 2020.

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The spacecraft ventured

509
00:10:56.188 --> 00:10:57.239
to a small crater

510
00:10:57.239 --> 00:10:58.107
in the asteroid's

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northern hemisphere.

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It dodged jagged rocks

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00:11:01.077 --> 00:11:02.545
and towering boulders

514
00:11:02.545 --> 00:11:03.779
and plunged its arm

515
00:11:03.779 --> 00:11:04.413
into the loose

516
00:11:04.413 --> 00:11:05.815
surface, excavating

517
00:11:05.815 --> 00:11:07.350
six tons of debris

518
00:11:07.350 --> 00:11:07.983
while collecting

519
00:11:07.983 --> 00:11:10.986
about 250 grams of material.

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00:11:11.070 --> 00:11:12.938
Osiris-rex stowed its bounty

521
00:11:12.938 --> 00:11:14.123
and closed its sample

522
00:11:14.123 --> 00:11:15.458
return capsule.

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00:11:15.458 --> 00:11:16.325
It bid farewell

524
00:11:16.325 --> 00:11:18.427
to Bennu in May 2021,

525
00:11:18.427 --> 00:11:19.745
embarking on a 1.2

526
00:11:19.745 --> 00:11:20.579
billion mile

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00:11:20.579 --> 00:11:22.765
cruise back to Earth.

528
00:11:22.765 --> 00:11:24.033
Now, two years

529
00:11:24.033 --> 00:11:24.834
and four months

530
00:11:24.834 --> 00:11:26.035
after leaving Bennu,

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00:11:26.035 --> 00:11:28.237
Osiris-rex is closing in on the

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00:11:28.237 --> 00:11:33.342
place where its journey began

533
00:11:33.426 --> 00:11:34.894
on September 24th.

534
00:11:34.894 --> 00:11:36.295
The spacecraft will approach

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00:11:36.295 --> 00:11:36.746
to nearly

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00:11:36.746 --> 00:11:39.215
63.000 miles from Earth.

537
00:11:39.215 --> 00:11:40.766
It will power up and release

538
00:11:40.766 --> 00:11:42.268
its sample return capsule

539
00:11:42.268 --> 00:11:45.187
at 4:42 a.m. Mountain Time.

540
00:11:45.187 --> 00:11:46.555
The capsule must be jettisoned

541
00:11:46.555 --> 00:11:47.940
within a narrow time frame

542
00:11:47.940 --> 00:11:49.325
and at just the right angle

543
00:11:49.325 --> 00:11:50.459
to hit its target,

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00:11:50.459 --> 00:11:51.544
an area of roughly

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00:11:51.544 --> 00:11:53.396
250 square miles

546
00:11:53.396 --> 00:11:55.414
in Utah's West Desert.

547
00:11:55.414 --> 00:11:56.999
Once the capsule is away,

548
00:11:56.999 --> 00:11:58.534
Osiris-rex will fire

549
00:11:58.534 --> 00:11:59.335
its thrusters

550
00:11:59.335 --> 00:12:02.338
to avoid colliding with Earth

551
00:12:02.371 --> 00:12:03.839
at 8:42 a.m..

552
00:12:03.839 --> 00:12:04.974
The council will streak

553
00:12:04.974 --> 00:12:06.158
into the atmosphere

554
00:12:06.158 --> 00:12:07.042
at a blistering

555
00:12:07.042 --> 00:12:09.845
27.000 miles per hour.

556
00:12:09.845 --> 00:12:10.863
It will race across

557
00:12:10.863 --> 00:12:11.881
the western U.S.

558
00:12:11.881 --> 00:12:13.382
and begin to glow with heat,

559
00:12:13.382 --> 00:12:14.700
allowing infrared trackers

560
00:12:14.700 --> 00:12:15.367
on the ground

561
00:12:15.367 --> 00:12:17.336
to chart its progress

562
00:12:17.336 --> 00:12:18.087
as it pushes

563
00:12:18.087 --> 00:12:19.538
deeper into the atmosphere.

564
00:12:19.538 --> 00:12:20.272
The capsule will

565
00:12:20.272 --> 00:12:21.574
rapidly decelerate.

566
00:12:21.574 --> 00:12:23.125
Subjecting the bennu samples

567
00:12:23.125 --> 00:12:25.678
to a punishing 32 GS

568
00:12:25.678 --> 00:12:27.296
about 2 minutes after entry,

569
00:12:27.296 --> 00:12:29.281
it will slow to Mach 1.4

570
00:12:29.281 --> 00:12:29.815
and deploy

571
00:12:29.815 --> 00:12:31.167
its drogue parachute,

572
00:12:31.167 --> 00:12:33.185
stabilizing its descent.

573
00:12:33.185 --> 00:12:34.620
The capsule will enter special

574
00:12:34.620 --> 00:12:36.989
use airspace at 8:46 a.m.,

575
00:12:36.989 --> 00:12:38.157
almost ten miles

576
00:12:38.157 --> 00:12:39.608
above the department of Defense

577
00:12:39.608 --> 00:12:41.794
Utah Test and Training range.

578
00:12:41.794 --> 00:12:42.661
Radar stations

579
00:12:42.661 --> 00:12:43.496
will lock on

580
00:12:43.496 --> 00:12:44.246
and track it to

581
00:12:44.246 --> 00:12:45.297
within 30 feet

582
00:12:45.297 --> 00:12:46.832
of its landing site

583
00:12:46.832 --> 00:12:48.117
at 8:50 a.m..

584
00:12:48.117 --> 00:12:49.385
The capsule will extract

585
00:12:49.385 --> 00:12:50.970
and deploy its main parachute

586
00:12:50.970 --> 00:12:52.772
one mile above the ground.

587
00:12:52.772 --> 00:12:54.423
It will make its final descent

588
00:12:54.423 --> 00:12:55.508
into leisurely 11

589
00:12:55.508 --> 00:12:56.492
miles per hour

590
00:12:56.492 --> 00:12:57.693
like a marathon runner

591
00:12:57.693 --> 00:12:59.278
savoring a victory lap

592
00:12:59.278 --> 00:13:00.446
before touching down in the

593
00:13:00.446 --> 00:13:10.656
desert soil at 855.

594
00:13:10.739 --> 00:13:11.073
Wow.

595
00:13:11.073 --> 00:13:11.874
I get chills every

596
00:13:11.874 --> 00:13:13.826
time I meet you. Amazing.

597
00:13:13.826 --> 00:13:14.076
All right.

598
00:13:14.076 --> 00:13:15.327
So we know you have questions,

599
00:13:15.327 --> 00:13:16.262
so please continue

600
00:13:16.262 --> 00:13:17.163
to send them to us

601
00:13:17.163 --> 00:13:19.415
using the hashtag, ask Nassar.

602
00:13:19.415 --> 00:13:20.583
But before we go any further,

603
00:13:20.583 --> 00:13:21.417
I have got a question

604
00:13:21.417 --> 00:13:22.351
for you, Jim.

605
00:13:22.351 --> 00:13:23.435
Why is the mission

606
00:13:23.435 --> 00:13:24.303
called Osiris-rex?

607
00:13:24.303 --> 00:13:26.155
It sounds like a new hybrid

608
00:13:26.155 --> 00:13:27.573
kind of dinosaur or something.

609
00:13:27.573 --> 00:13:27.957
It does,

610
00:13:27.957 --> 00:13:28.858
but it's actually the name

611
00:13:28.858 --> 00:13:30.059
of an Egyptian deity,

612
00:13:30.059 --> 00:13:30.843
A bird deity.

613
00:13:30.843 --> 00:13:32.461
But it means all the stuff

614
00:13:32.461 --> 00:13:32.845
the mission is

615
00:13:32.845 --> 00:13:33.412
going to be doing.

616
00:13:33.412 --> 00:13:34.463
So we're going to be

617
00:13:34.463 --> 00:13:35.347
searching for clues

618
00:13:35.347 --> 00:13:35.965
to the origins

619
00:13:35.965 --> 00:13:37.500
of our solar system, chemically

620
00:13:37.500 --> 00:13:38.100
looking at how

621
00:13:38.100 --> 00:13:39.001
we can ground truth.

622
00:13:39.001 --> 00:13:39.869
All the data we have

623
00:13:39.869 --> 00:13:40.386
for asteroids

624
00:13:40.386 --> 00:13:41.787
from Earth, other spacecraft

625
00:13:41.787 --> 00:13:43.322
right up close with samples.

626
00:13:43.322 --> 00:13:43.856
We're going to look

627
00:13:43.856 --> 00:13:44.523
at the resource

628
00:13:44.523 --> 00:13:45.724
potential of asteroids,

629
00:13:45.724 --> 00:13:47.877
metals, hydrated water

630
00:13:47.877 --> 00:13:48.844
and hydrated minerals

631
00:13:48.844 --> 00:13:49.795
and also consider

632
00:13:49.795 --> 00:13:51.363
security of our planet

633
00:13:51.363 --> 00:13:52.715
from these kinds of objects.

634
00:13:52.715 --> 00:13:54.033
It's a big name

635
00:13:54.033 --> 00:13:55.117
with a big mission,

636
00:13:55.117 --> 00:13:56.936
with many things it has to do.

637
00:13:56.936 --> 00:13:58.254
It's multiple missions and one.

638
00:13:58.254 --> 00:13:59.338
Yeah, three missions and one.

639
00:13:59.338 --> 00:14:00.022
In fact.

640
00:14:00.022 --> 00:14:00.756
We know we have

641
00:14:00.756 --> 00:14:01.440
a global audience

642
00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:01.974
for this event.

643
00:14:01.974 --> 00:14:02.791
And throughout the morning

644
00:14:02.791 --> 00:14:03.776
we'll be taking questions

645
00:14:03.776 --> 00:14:05.728
submitted via social media.

646
00:14:05.728 --> 00:14:07.596
So let's take one now.

647
00:14:07.596 --> 00:14:07.980
All right.

648
00:14:07.980 --> 00:14:08.797
What do we have

649
00:14:08.797 --> 00:14:11.317
at S for Michael

650
00:14:11.317 --> 00:14:12.968
Underscore B asks,

651
00:14:12.968 --> 00:14:14.003
what's the significance

652
00:14:14.003 --> 00:14:14.937
of studying asteroids

653
00:14:14.937 --> 00:14:16.205
like bennu for advancements

654
00:14:16.205 --> 00:14:18.007
in planetary science?

655
00:14:18.007 --> 00:14:18.507
These are

656
00:14:18.507 --> 00:14:19.708
that literally the time

657
00:14:19.708 --> 00:14:20.159
capsules

658
00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:21.176
of the early solar system.

659
00:14:21.176 --> 00:14:22.344
With those bits and fragments,

660
00:14:22.344 --> 00:14:23.579
we can never get here.

661
00:14:23.579 --> 00:14:25.047
So we go and bring them home

662
00:14:25.047 --> 00:14:26.048
to connect ourselves

663
00:14:26.048 --> 00:14:26.549
to the place

664
00:14:26.549 --> 00:14:27.933
we live, our solar system.

665
00:14:27.933 --> 00:14:29.068
So that's one of the big

666
00:14:29.068 --> 00:14:29.818
takeaways of this.

667
00:14:29.818 --> 00:14:30.603
We will

668
00:14:30.603 --> 00:14:32.338
read the clues of Mother Nature

669
00:14:32.338 --> 00:14:33.923
on how our world works

670
00:14:33.923 --> 00:14:35.374
in the context of all the rest

671
00:14:35.374 --> 00:14:36.842
of the planetary system.

672
00:14:36.842 --> 00:14:37.476
Fantastic.

673
00:14:37.476 --> 00:14:37.943
All right,

674
00:14:37.943 --> 00:14:39.211
let's take another question.

675
00:14:39.211 --> 00:14:39.879
What do we have?

676
00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:40.262
All right.

677
00:14:40.262 --> 00:14:43.866
From at end Danger 817,

678
00:14:43.949 --> 00:14:44.783
approximately how

679
00:14:44.783 --> 00:14:46.468
large is the sample size

680
00:14:46.468 --> 00:14:48.003
and what kind of analysis

681
00:14:48.003 --> 00:14:49.622
will be performed?

682
00:14:49.622 --> 00:14:50.940
So it's about eight

683
00:14:50.940 --> 00:14:51.724
or nine ounces.

684
00:14:51.724 --> 00:14:52.508
It's about

685
00:14:52.508 --> 00:14:53.542
the size of a baseball

686
00:14:53.542 --> 00:14:54.360
and a half.

687
00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:55.377
And the kind of an ounce

688
00:14:55.377 --> 00:14:56.545
is are amazing.

689
00:14:56.545 --> 00:14:57.563
There are toolkits

690
00:14:57.563 --> 00:14:58.113
and instruments

691
00:14:58.113 --> 00:14:58.597
that can look at

692
00:14:58.597 --> 00:15:00.382
nanoscale characteristics

693
00:15:00.382 --> 00:15:01.083
that you wouldn't imagine.

694
00:15:01.083 --> 00:15:01.584
We could see the

695
00:15:01.584 --> 00:15:02.618
hairs on a layer,

696
00:15:02.618 --> 00:15:04.403
on a on a foot of an ant,

697
00:15:04.403 --> 00:15:05.287
but we'll look at those

698
00:15:05.287 --> 00:15:05.821
in the context

699
00:15:05.821 --> 00:15:06.805
of another object

700
00:15:06.805 --> 00:15:09.241
in the solar system. So. Wow.

701
00:15:09.241 --> 00:15:10.292
Wow, indeed.

702
00:15:10.292 --> 00:15:10.593
All right.

703
00:15:10.593 --> 00:15:11.193
We'll be taking

704
00:15:11.193 --> 00:15:11.994
some more questions

705
00:15:11.994 --> 00:15:14.196
throughout the morning.

706
00:15:14.280 --> 00:15:14.947
Okay.

707
00:15:14.947 --> 00:15:17.182
So let us

708
00:15:17.182 --> 00:15:19.201
head back to the Ellipse

709
00:15:19.201 --> 00:15:20.069
to talk to Sophia.

710
00:15:20.069 --> 00:15:21.203
I understand, Sophia,

711
00:15:21.203 --> 00:15:22.288
you've got a critical team

712
00:15:22.288 --> 00:15:22.838
member with you.

713
00:15:22.838 --> 00:15:26.175
Take it away.

714
00:15:26.258 --> 00:15:27.026
Thanks, Lauren.

715
00:15:27.026 --> 00:15:28.594
Yes, I am joined right now

716
00:15:28.594 --> 00:15:31.981
by Stu Wiley, who is the Oscar

717
00:15:31.981 --> 00:15:33.515
or on scene commander

718
00:15:33.515 --> 00:15:35.784
of this recovery mission.

719
00:15:35.784 --> 00:15:37.319
Thank you for joining me, Stu.

720
00:15:37.319 --> 00:15:38.704
Thanks for having me, Sophia.

721
00:15:38.704 --> 00:15:39.038
All right.

722
00:15:39.038 --> 00:15:40.673
So you are the person who

723
00:15:40.673 --> 00:15:41.307
kicks off

724
00:15:41.307 --> 00:15:42.808
this whole process before

725
00:15:42.808 --> 00:15:44.276
even the recovery team

726
00:15:44.276 --> 00:15:45.577
gets on the ground.

727
00:15:45.577 --> 00:15:46.145
Can you walk us

728
00:15:46.145 --> 00:15:47.463
through your process?

729
00:15:47.463 --> 00:15:47.696
Yes.

730
00:15:47.696 --> 00:15:49.615
So essentially

731
00:15:49.615 --> 00:15:50.466
what's going to happen

732
00:15:50.466 --> 00:15:51.717
is that once

733
00:15:51.717 --> 00:15:55.537
the capsule is under shoot,

734
00:15:55.621 --> 00:15:57.156
we'll have a better idea

735
00:15:57.156 --> 00:15:57.723
of where it's

736
00:15:57.723 --> 00:15:59.008
going to land on the range.

737
00:15:59.008 --> 00:16:00.175
And based on that, I'll know

738
00:16:00.175 --> 00:16:00.626
exactly

739
00:16:00.626 --> 00:16:01.627
what kind of weapons systems

740
00:16:01.627 --> 00:16:02.444
we used in that area

741
00:16:02.444 --> 00:16:03.212
or what kind of tests

742
00:16:03.212 --> 00:16:04.313
we've done in that area.

743
00:16:04.313 --> 00:16:05.280
So I'll know better

744
00:16:05.280 --> 00:16:06.115
what kind of hazards

745
00:16:06.115 --> 00:16:07.650
are in the area.

746
00:16:07.650 --> 00:16:09.518
Once I land on the ground,

747
00:16:09.518 --> 00:16:10.536
I'll do an initial

748
00:16:10.536 --> 00:16:11.704
sweep of the area

749
00:16:11.704 --> 00:16:12.755
and methodically move

750
00:16:12.755 --> 00:16:14.873
towards the the capsule

751
00:16:14.873 --> 00:16:15.841
and mark

752
00:16:15.841 --> 00:16:16.859
any kind of hazards

753
00:16:16.859 --> 00:16:18.777
that I find, whether it be

754
00:16:18.777 --> 00:16:20.095
munition hazards, of course,

755
00:16:20.095 --> 00:16:22.498
and or the industrial hazards

756
00:16:22.498 --> 00:16:25.234
and and even the environmental

757
00:16:25.317 --> 00:16:26.135
sensitive areas

758
00:16:26.135 --> 00:16:28.320
that we have out here. So, Art.

759
00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:29.555
And how did you prepare

760
00:16:29.555 --> 00:16:31.373
for this today?

761
00:16:31.373 --> 00:16:36.578
So preparation has been a long

762
00:16:36.662 --> 00:16:38.914
in the process for a long time

763
00:16:38.914 --> 00:16:40.015
between myself

764
00:16:40.015 --> 00:16:41.367
and Jazmin Nakayama.

765
00:16:41.367 --> 00:16:42.868
We've got 40 years

766
00:16:42.868 --> 00:16:44.403
worth of explosive knowledge.

767
00:16:44.403 --> 00:16:45.187
Most of it is on

768
00:16:45.187 --> 00:16:45.838
this range here.

769
00:16:45.838 --> 00:16:46.655
So we know the ranges

770
00:16:46.655 --> 00:16:48.807
very well.

771
00:16:48.807 --> 00:16:50.376
The

772
00:16:50.376 --> 00:16:51.844
the team and

773
00:16:51.844 --> 00:16:53.245
and the shooter

774
00:16:53.245 --> 00:16:54.630
have been working together,

775
00:16:54.630 --> 00:16:56.065
both Lockheed and RCA,

776
00:16:56.065 --> 00:16:59.268
and we've been doing rehearsals

777
00:16:59.334 --> 00:17:00.803
so that we are more familiar

778
00:17:00.803 --> 00:17:01.620
with their capsule

779
00:17:01.620 --> 00:17:02.888
and they're more familiar

780
00:17:02.888 --> 00:17:03.722
with our terrain here.

781
00:17:03.722 --> 00:17:06.725
It's as well.

782
00:17:06.842 --> 00:17:07.109
Yeah.

783
00:17:07.109 --> 00:17:08.043
So

784
00:17:08.043 --> 00:17:09.395
and this is an active

785
00:17:09.395 --> 00:17:10.746
proving ground here.

786
00:17:10.746 --> 00:17:11.947
So what are the other steps

787
00:17:11.947 --> 00:17:13.015
that we have to ensure

788
00:17:13.015 --> 00:17:14.633
that our teams are safe?

789
00:17:14.633 --> 00:17:14.850
Yeah.

790
00:17:14.850 --> 00:17:15.667
So this

791
00:17:15.667 --> 00:17:16.468
at the Utah testing

792
00:17:16.468 --> 00:17:17.036
trading range,

793
00:17:17.036 --> 00:17:18.387
we do have a lot of different

794
00:17:18.387 --> 00:17:19.254
hazards out here.

795
00:17:19.254 --> 00:17:20.355
Like I said, the weapon

796
00:17:20.355 --> 00:17:22.624
systems that we test,

797
00:17:22.708 --> 00:17:23.342
we're going to keep

798
00:17:23.342 --> 00:17:25.194
them safe from that.

799
00:17:25.194 --> 00:17:27.112
We have again done

800
00:17:27.112 --> 00:17:28.163
many of the preparations

801
00:17:28.163 --> 00:17:28.981
with them already.

802
00:17:28.981 --> 00:17:31.467
They've taken safety briefings.

803
00:17:31.467 --> 00:17:34.053
They've been

804
00:17:34.053 --> 00:17:36.271
briefed on the actual items

805
00:17:36.271 --> 00:17:38.107
that we've dropped out here

806
00:17:38.107 --> 00:17:40.642
in their range safety brief.

807
00:17:40.642 --> 00:17:41.310
One of the hazards

808
00:17:41.310 --> 00:17:41.727
that we're going to

809
00:17:41.727 --> 00:17:42.244
be dealing with,

810
00:17:42.244 --> 00:17:43.228
though, is the helicopters

811
00:17:43.228 --> 00:17:44.313
that you see behind us.

812
00:17:44.313 --> 00:17:45.814
And they've

813
00:17:45.814 --> 00:17:47.032
been through practices

814
00:17:47.032 --> 00:17:47.850
getting on and off

815
00:17:47.850 --> 00:17:48.817
the helicopters

816
00:17:48.817 --> 00:17:51.186
and working in and around them.

817
00:17:51.186 --> 00:17:53.605
And but I think

818
00:17:53.605 --> 00:17:54.456
the biggest hazard

819
00:17:54.456 --> 00:17:54.840
that we're going to

820
00:17:54.840 --> 00:17:56.825
have is slipping.

821
00:17:56.825 --> 00:17:57.993
We had some recent rain.

822
00:17:57.993 --> 00:17:59.728
So that I think,

823
00:17:59.728 --> 00:18:00.129
is going to be our

824
00:18:00.129 --> 00:18:00.996
biggest hazard.

825
00:18:00.996 --> 00:18:02.498
But it could be fun, too, so.

826
00:18:02.498 --> 00:18:03.415
Well, wonderful.

827
00:18:03.415 --> 00:18:04.650
I know that you have

828
00:18:04.650 --> 00:18:05.517
your last

829
00:18:05.517 --> 00:18:06.835
preparations for the day,

830
00:18:06.835 --> 00:18:07.986
so I'm going to let you go.

831
00:18:07.986 --> 00:18:09.037
And thank you very much

832
00:18:09.037 --> 00:18:12.424
for joining us. Thank you.

833
00:18:12.508 --> 00:18:13.225
Thanks, Sophia.

834
00:18:13.225 --> 00:18:14.543
Stuart, got a big day to day.

835
00:18:14.543 --> 00:18:16.445
Oh, my goodness.

836
00:18:16.445 --> 00:18:17.096
All right, Jim,

837
00:18:17.096 --> 00:18:18.397
we know we have space fans

838
00:18:18.397 --> 00:18:19.598
from all walks of life

839
00:18:19.598 --> 00:18:20.849
all over the world.

840
00:18:20.849 --> 00:18:22.718
One super fan in particular

841
00:18:22.718 --> 00:18:23.519
is a well-known

842
00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:24.636
astrophysicist

843
00:18:24.636 --> 00:18:27.005
with an atypical side hustle.

844
00:18:27.005 --> 00:18:28.557
But I'm guessing you know him.

845
00:18:28.557 --> 00:18:30.125
Probably more no more him.

846
00:18:30.125 --> 00:18:30.776
Probably more

847
00:18:30.776 --> 00:18:32.044
from his side thing

848
00:18:32.044 --> 00:18:33.328
than his science thing.

849
00:18:33.328 --> 00:18:34.029
Well, that's right.

850
00:18:34.029 --> 00:18:35.314
He's literally space

851
00:18:35.314 --> 00:18:36.782
royalty and rock royalty.

852
00:18:36.782 --> 00:18:37.766
Perfect for a mission

853
00:18:37.766 --> 00:18:39.368
to bring back Rock.

854
00:18:39.368 --> 00:18:41.737
Just a true rock star.

855
00:18:41.737 --> 00:18:42.421
Let's let him speak

856
00:18:42.421 --> 00:18:44.406
for himself.

857
00:18:44.406 --> 00:18:45.808
Hello, NASA folks.

858
00:18:45.808 --> 00:18:47.376
Space fans,

859
00:18:47.376 --> 00:18:49.027
asteroid aficionados.

860
00:18:49.027 --> 00:18:50.846
This is Brian May

861
00:18:50.846 --> 00:18:51.663
of Queen,

862
00:18:51.663 --> 00:18:52.748
as you know, probably,

863
00:18:52.748 --> 00:18:54.032
but also immensely

864
00:18:54.032 --> 00:18:54.983
proud

865
00:18:54.983 --> 00:18:56.185
to be a team member of

866
00:18:56.185 --> 00:18:57.936
a Sirius Rex.

867
00:18:57.936 --> 00:18:59.221
I can't be with you today.

868
00:18:59.221 --> 00:19:00.455
I wish I could.

869
00:19:00.455 --> 00:19:01.056
And rehearsing

870
00:19:01.056 --> 00:19:02.224
for a Queen tour.

871
00:19:02.224 --> 00:19:03.725
But my heart's there with you.

872
00:19:03.725 --> 00:19:04.827
As this precious

873
00:19:04.827 --> 00:19:06.728
sample is recovered.

874
00:19:06.728 --> 00:19:08.730
Happy sample return day.

875
00:19:08.730 --> 00:19:09.748
And congratulations

876
00:19:09.748 --> 00:19:10.532
to all who worked

877
00:19:10.532 --> 00:19:11.483
so incredibly hard

878
00:19:11.483 --> 00:19:12.668
on this mission,

879
00:19:12.668 --> 00:19:13.802
especially my dear

880
00:19:13.802 --> 00:19:15.003
friend Dante,

881
00:19:15.003 --> 00:19:16.839
with whom we already created

882
00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:18.540
this beautiful book.

883
00:19:18.540 --> 00:19:20.826
God bless you all.

884
00:19:20.909 --> 00:19:22.044
Speaking of rock stars,

885
00:19:22.044 --> 00:19:23.278
joining us is NASA's

886
00:19:23.278 --> 00:19:24.897
Lori Glaze, planetary

887
00:19:24.897 --> 00:19:26.548
science mission director.

888
00:19:26.548 --> 00:19:27.749
Welcome, Lori.

889
00:19:27.749 --> 00:19:28.650
Hey, good

890
00:19:28.650 --> 00:19:31.019
to have you here, Lori.

891
00:19:31.019 --> 00:19:32.221
And you and Jim go back

892
00:19:32.221 --> 00:19:33.038
quite a ways, right?

893
00:19:33.038 --> 00:19:33.755
Oh, yes.

894
00:19:33.755 --> 00:19:34.673
Jim and I actually go back

895
00:19:34.673 --> 00:19:35.574
several decades,

896
00:19:35.574 --> 00:19:37.109
but we've been working together

897
00:19:37.109 --> 00:19:38.493
closely for many, many years.

898
00:19:38.493 --> 00:19:39.211
And it's so good

899
00:19:39.211 --> 00:19:41.013
to see you here.

900
00:19:41.013 --> 00:19:42.114
Lori,

901
00:19:42.114 --> 00:19:43.765
It is a really exciting day.

902
00:19:43.765 --> 00:19:45.100
So Osiris-rex

903
00:19:45.100 --> 00:19:47.886
is part of a larger autumn

904
00:19:47.886 --> 00:19:49.288
for asteroid asteroid's

905
00:19:49.288 --> 00:19:49.988
asteroid autumn,

906
00:19:49.988 --> 00:19:50.873
as we've been saying.

907
00:19:50.873 --> 00:19:51.390
Can you talk about

908
00:19:51.390 --> 00:19:52.291
some of the other missions

909
00:19:52.291 --> 00:19:53.492
that are happening this fall?

910
00:19:53.492 --> 00:19:54.843
Happy to do that.

911
00:19:54.843 --> 00:19:55.978
It is really exciting.

912
00:19:55.978 --> 00:19:56.828
We have lots of

913
00:19:56.828 --> 00:19:58.597
asteroid missions

914
00:19:58.597 --> 00:19:59.348
and actually

915
00:19:59.348 --> 00:20:00.148
four of them have

916
00:20:00.148 --> 00:20:01.083
major milestones

917
00:20:01.083 --> 00:20:02.434
coming up this autumn,

918
00:20:02.434 --> 00:20:03.669
right on the heels

919
00:20:03.669 --> 00:20:04.853
of the sample return

920
00:20:04.853 --> 00:20:06.038
happening today.

921
00:20:06.038 --> 00:20:08.373
In two days on September 26

922
00:20:08.373 --> 00:20:09.174
is the one year

923
00:20:09.174 --> 00:20:10.492
anniversary of a little mission

924
00:20:10.492 --> 00:20:11.493
you may have heard of

925
00:20:11.493 --> 00:20:12.244
last year

926
00:20:12.244 --> 00:20:13.295
called the double asteroid

927
00:20:13.295 --> 00:20:14.580
redirection test,

928
00:20:14.580 --> 00:20:15.214
demonstrating

929
00:20:15.214 --> 00:20:16.081
for the first time

930
00:20:16.081 --> 00:20:17.399
humanity's ability

931
00:20:17.399 --> 00:20:18.116
to deflect

932
00:20:18.116 --> 00:20:19.568
the path of an asteroid.

933
00:20:19.568 --> 00:20:20.852
How cool is that?

934
00:20:20.852 --> 00:20:22.354
And then coming up on October

935
00:20:22.354 --> 00:20:25.224
5th is the launch of a mission

936
00:20:25.224 --> 00:20:26.408
called Psyche.

937
00:20:26.408 --> 00:20:27.009
Going to visit

938
00:20:27.009 --> 00:20:28.110
a special asteroid

939
00:20:28.110 --> 00:20:30.095
called Psyche, also,

940
00:20:30.095 --> 00:20:31.980
which is one of only about nine

941
00:20:31.980 --> 00:20:33.098
of asteroids that are

942
00:20:33.098 --> 00:20:34.049
we think are made

943
00:20:34.049 --> 00:20:35.467
primarily of metal,

944
00:20:35.467 --> 00:20:37.552
have a very high metal content,

945
00:20:37.552 --> 00:20:38.787
iron and nickel.

946
00:20:38.787 --> 00:20:39.805
And then about a month

947
00:20:39.805 --> 00:20:41.640
after that, on November 1st

948
00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:42.207
is going to be

949
00:20:42.207 --> 00:20:44.243
the first asteroid flyby

950
00:20:44.243 --> 00:20:45.877
of our mission called Lucy,

951
00:20:45.877 --> 00:20:47.079
which will ultimately visit

952
00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:48.180
Trojan asteroids

953
00:20:48.180 --> 00:20:49.231
that lead and trail

954
00:20:49.231 --> 00:20:50.215
Jupiter in its orbit

955
00:20:50.215 --> 00:20:51.116
around the sun.

956
00:20:51.116 --> 00:20:52.351
But in November will fly

957
00:20:52.351 --> 00:20:53.185
by a main belt

958
00:20:53.185 --> 00:20:55.120
asteroid called Lincoln.

959
00:20:55.203 --> 00:20:55.754
Wow.

960
00:20:55.754 --> 00:20:57.572
Wow. Check that out.

961
00:20:57.572 --> 00:20:59.524
It literally is an asteroid on.

962
00:20:59.524 --> 00:21:00.759
But Laurie, one of the thing

963
00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:02.244
you know, I wasn't,

964
00:21:02.244 --> 00:21:02.678
you know,

965
00:21:02.678 --> 00:21:03.929
is a multipurpose mission.

966
00:21:03.929 --> 00:21:04.680
All this great stuff.

967
00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:05.364
You mentioned.

968
00:21:05.364 --> 00:21:06.398
And one of its key jobs

969
00:21:06.398 --> 00:21:06.865
is to help us

970
00:21:06.865 --> 00:21:07.983
with planetary defense.

971
00:21:07.983 --> 00:21:09.534
How does it do that

972
00:21:09.534 --> 00:21:11.453
way out there?

973
00:21:11.453 --> 00:21:12.938
So actually, Osiris-rex

974
00:21:12.938 --> 00:21:14.573
gave us some really important

975
00:21:14.573 --> 00:21:16.224
new information

976
00:21:16.224 --> 00:21:17.826
about a tech that a

977
00:21:17.826 --> 00:21:19.044
an effect of force

978
00:21:19.044 --> 00:21:20.996
that occurs on asteroids

979
00:21:20.996 --> 00:21:23.432
called the Yarkovsky effect.

980
00:21:23.432 --> 00:21:25.200
And what that really is, is

981
00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:26.518
we know there's gravitational

982
00:21:26.518 --> 00:21:27.602
pulls on the asteroids

983
00:21:27.602 --> 00:21:29.338
and we can predict that with

984
00:21:29.338 --> 00:21:30.238
our trajectories.

985
00:21:30.238 --> 00:21:31.807
But Yarkovsky effect

986
00:21:31.807 --> 00:21:32.424
says that

987
00:21:32.424 --> 00:21:34.593
the sun's radiation heats up

988
00:21:34.593 --> 00:21:36.178
one side of the asteroid,

989
00:21:36.178 --> 00:21:37.462
and then as the asteroid

990
00:21:37.462 --> 00:21:39.998
rotates, the radiation radiates

991
00:21:39.998 --> 00:21:41.616
off into the deep space.

992
00:21:41.616 --> 00:21:43.418
And that actually kind of acts

993
00:21:43.418 --> 00:21:44.002
as a force

994
00:21:44.002 --> 00:21:45.203
that kind of pushes back

995
00:21:45.203 --> 00:21:47.606
against the forward trajectory.

996
00:21:47.606 --> 00:21:48.874
And so it changes

997
00:21:48.874 --> 00:21:49.808
our predictions

998
00:21:49.808 --> 00:21:51.093
on where the asteroid

999
00:21:51.093 --> 00:21:52.344
might be over time.

1000
00:21:52.344 --> 00:21:54.096
It really makes a difference.

1001
00:21:54.096 --> 00:21:54.963
And Osiris-rex

1002
00:21:54.963 --> 00:21:56.098
gave us some fantastic

1003
00:21:56.098 --> 00:21:56.732
new measurements

1004
00:21:56.732 --> 00:21:58.383
on that effect. Unbelievable.

1005
00:21:58.383 --> 00:21:58.567
Wow.

1006
00:21:58.567 --> 00:21:59.701
That is truly unbelievable.

1007
00:21:59.701 --> 00:22:00.535
Nobody appreciates

1008
00:22:00.535 --> 00:22:02.004
the planetary defense expert

1009
00:22:02.004 --> 00:22:03.488
more than Jim Webb.

1010
00:22:03.488 --> 00:22:05.640
We want to be safe. Right.

1011
00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:07.342
Really, really quickly here.

1012
00:22:07.342 --> 00:22:07.626
You know,

1013
00:22:07.626 --> 00:22:08.243
this isn't the end

1014
00:22:08.243 --> 00:22:09.144
for osiris-rex.

1015
00:22:09.144 --> 00:22:10.529
What's what's what's next?

1016
00:22:10.529 --> 00:22:12.214
Yeah. So really exciting.

1017
00:22:12.214 --> 00:22:13.882
Now that the spacecraft

1018
00:22:13.882 --> 00:22:14.733
has released

1019
00:22:14.733 --> 00:22:16.768
the capsule successfully,

1020
00:22:16.768 --> 00:22:17.552
about 20 minutes

1021
00:22:17.552 --> 00:22:18.387
after that release,

1022
00:22:18.387 --> 00:22:18.787
we're now

1023
00:22:18.787 --> 00:22:20.288
repurposing the spacecraft

1024
00:22:20.288 --> 00:22:21.423
for a new mission

1025
00:22:21.423 --> 00:22:23.075
called Osiris Apex,

1026
00:22:23.075 --> 00:22:23.942
where Apex stands

1027
00:22:23.942 --> 00:22:25.644
for Apophis Explorer.

1028
00:22:25.644 --> 00:22:26.395
And it's off

1029
00:22:26.395 --> 00:22:27.562
on its new mission

1030
00:22:27.562 --> 00:22:28.296
to explore

1031
00:22:28.296 --> 00:22:30.265
the asteroid Apophis,

1032
00:22:30.265 --> 00:22:30.782
which is going to have

1033
00:22:30.782 --> 00:22:33.085
a close flyby of Earth in 2029.

1034
00:22:33.085 --> 00:22:34.269
CHRIS Stay tuned.

1035
00:22:34.269 --> 00:22:35.287
Every many.

1036
00:22:35.287 --> 00:22:36.121
That is fantastic.

1037
00:22:36.121 --> 00:22:36.238
Well,

1038
00:22:36.238 --> 00:22:37.622
thank you so much, Luther.

1039
00:22:37.622 --> 00:22:38.223
Sorry.

1040
00:22:38.223 --> 00:22:38.790
You're going to stick around

1041
00:22:38.790 --> 00:22:39.458
for the show, right?

1042
00:22:39.458 --> 00:22:40.125
Oh, absolutely.

1043
00:22:40.125 --> 00:22:41.877
Absolutely. Okay.

1044
00:22:41.877 --> 00:22:43.412
This will be the biggest U.S.

1045
00:22:43.412 --> 00:22:44.046
sample return

1046
00:22:44.046 --> 00:22:44.846
since the Apollo

1047
00:22:44.846 --> 00:22:46.081
mission to the moon.

1048
00:22:46.081 --> 00:22:47.315
But this is not the first time

1049
00:22:47.315 --> 00:22:48.483
that anyone has captured

1050
00:22:48.483 --> 00:22:51.036
a piece of an asteroid.

1051
00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:51.953
On the arrival of the

1052
00:22:51.953 --> 00:22:53.455
historic Osiris-rex sample,

1053
00:22:53.455 --> 00:22:54.239
we celebrate that

1054
00:22:54.239 --> 00:22:55.807
the Japanese space agency

1055
00:22:55.807 --> 00:22:57.809
or JAXA, has already visited

1056
00:22:57.809 --> 00:22:59.044
two asteroids

1057
00:22:59.044 --> 00:23:00.812
Itokawa in 2005

1058
00:23:00.812 --> 00:23:03.482
and the asteroid due in 2019.

1059
00:23:03.482 --> 00:23:04.116
The measures

1060
00:23:04.116 --> 00:23:04.766
the mission's

1061
00:23:04.766 --> 00:23:06.234
Hayabusa and Hayabusa2

1062
00:23:06.234 --> 00:23:07.886
proved that it could be done

1063
00:23:07.886 --> 00:23:08.670
and paved the way

1064
00:23:08.670 --> 00:23:10.539
for today's ambitious goals

1065
00:23:10.539 --> 00:23:12.307
of this daring enterprise.

1066
00:23:12.307 --> 00:23:12.908
All right, let's

1067
00:23:12.908 --> 00:23:13.892
send it back over to James

1068
00:23:13.892 --> 00:23:14.493
for an update

1069
00:23:14.493 --> 00:23:15.510
on mission operations.

1070
00:23:15.510 --> 00:23:16.495
Go ahead, James.

1071
00:23:16.495 --> 00:23:17.195
Yeah, Thanks, Lance.

1072
00:23:17.195 --> 00:23:17.796
So everything

1073
00:23:17.796 --> 00:23:18.814
continues to be nominal.

1074
00:23:18.814 --> 00:23:19.614
I've been tracking the mission

1075
00:23:19.614 --> 00:23:20.282
status here.

1076
00:23:20.282 --> 00:23:21.533
Everyone looks dialed

1077
00:23:21.533 --> 00:23:22.284
in, ready to go.

1078
00:23:22.284 --> 00:23:23.335
You saw a few moments ago

1079
00:23:23.335 --> 00:23:24.603
Sofia with Steve

1080
00:23:24.603 --> 00:23:25.470
Wiley are on scene.

1081
00:23:25.470 --> 00:23:26.588
Commander. He's ready to go.

1082
00:23:26.588 --> 00:23:27.773
He understands the mission.

1083
00:23:27.773 --> 00:23:28.957
They are ready to get out

1084
00:23:28.957 --> 00:23:30.659
and recover that sample today.

1085
00:23:30.659 --> 00:23:31.593
And as I mentioned earlier,

1086
00:23:31.593 --> 00:23:33.028
just a few moments ago,

1087
00:23:33.028 --> 00:23:33.295
actually,

1088
00:23:33.295 --> 00:23:34.112
I guess a couple of hours ago

1089
00:23:34.112 --> 00:23:34.596
at this point now,

1090
00:23:34.596 --> 00:23:35.764
the CRC was released

1091
00:23:35.764 --> 00:23:36.264
from the main

1092
00:23:36.264 --> 00:23:37.833
OSIRIS-REX spacecraft.

1093
00:23:37.833 --> 00:23:39.034
When that release took place.

1094
00:23:39.034 --> 00:23:40.802
It was given an initial spin,

1095
00:23:40.802 --> 00:23:41.636
which kind of preserves

1096
00:23:41.636 --> 00:23:42.604
its angular momentum,

1097
00:23:42.604 --> 00:23:44.156
its speed as it's coming in

1098
00:23:44.156 --> 00:23:45.357
to Earth's atmosphere.

1099
00:23:45.357 --> 00:23:45.757
It's similar

1100
00:23:45.757 --> 00:23:47.159
to throwing a perfect spiral

1101
00:23:47.159 --> 00:23:47.993
on a football,

1102
00:23:47.993 --> 00:23:49.077
and teams are hoping for that

1103
00:23:49.077 --> 00:23:50.462
perfect touchdown today.

1104
00:23:50.462 --> 00:23:51.296
What you're about to see

1105
00:23:51.296 --> 00:23:52.747
is basically the equivalent

1106
00:23:52.747 --> 00:23:53.765
of throwing a touchdown

1107
00:23:53.765 --> 00:23:54.366
pass over

1108
00:23:54.366 --> 00:23:56.067
ten football fields away

1109
00:23:56.067 --> 00:23:56.668
and landing it

1110
00:23:56.668 --> 00:23:58.703
perfectly in that end zone.

1111
00:23:58.703 --> 00:24:00.038
So you can see on your screen

1112
00:24:00.038 --> 00:24:01.523
now the mission operations team

1113
00:24:01.523 --> 00:24:02.707
there just next door,

1114
00:24:02.707 --> 00:24:03.775
dialed in, ready to go.

1115
00:24:03.775 --> 00:24:04.559
There have been monitoring

1116
00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:06.094
the vitals of the CRC

1117
00:24:06.094 --> 00:24:06.895
all morning.

1118
00:24:06.895 --> 00:24:08.246
They've been there in the room

1119
00:24:08.246 --> 00:24:09.664
prepared and ready to go.

1120
00:24:09.664 --> 00:24:10.315
I'm sure they are

1121
00:24:10.315 --> 00:24:11.183
absolutely thrilled

1122
00:24:11.183 --> 00:24:12.384
for this moment.

1123
00:24:12.384 --> 00:24:13.318
They might even see themselves

1124
00:24:13.318 --> 00:24:13.735
on the screen

1125
00:24:13.735 --> 00:24:14.402
there in a second,

1126
00:24:14.402 --> 00:24:15.787
but they are

1127
00:24:15.787 --> 00:24:16.555
hype and ready to go.

1128
00:24:16.555 --> 00:24:17.339
This is the Lockheed

1129
00:24:17.339 --> 00:24:17.873
Martin team

1130
00:24:17.873 --> 00:24:18.773
just a little bit north of us

1131
00:24:18.773 --> 00:24:20.225
in Waterton, Colorado.

1132
00:24:20.225 --> 00:24:21.359
They are also Donlin.

1133
00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:22.194
They're the ones who gave

1134
00:24:22.194 --> 00:24:22.944
that initial command

1135
00:24:22.944 --> 00:24:23.395
this morning

1136
00:24:23.395 --> 00:24:24.296
to release

1137
00:24:24.296 --> 00:24:25.464
the CRC from the main

1138
00:24:25.464 --> 00:24:27.149
OSIRIS-REX spacecraft.

1139
00:24:27.149 --> 00:24:28.049
You just heard from Lori

1140
00:24:28.049 --> 00:24:29.034
that Osiris-rex

1141
00:24:29.034 --> 00:24:30.335
is now on its way

1142
00:24:30.335 --> 00:24:31.102
to its extended

1143
00:24:31.102 --> 00:24:31.803
mission,

1144
00:24:31.803 --> 00:24:32.938
Osiris Apex

1145
00:24:32.938 --> 00:24:33.805
visiting that near-Earth

1146
00:24:33.805 --> 00:24:35.106
asteroid Apophis.

1147
00:24:35.106 --> 00:24:35.974
A lot coming up in

1148
00:24:35.974 --> 00:24:36.808
just a few moments,

1149
00:24:36.808 --> 00:24:37.676
we're going to hit that key

1150
00:24:37.676 --> 00:24:39.127
milestone of entry,

1151
00:24:39.127 --> 00:24:40.629
descent and landing

1152
00:24:40.629 --> 00:24:42.714
30 minutes of punishing descent

1153
00:24:42.714 --> 00:24:43.915
through Earth's atmosphere

1154
00:24:43.915 --> 00:24:44.583
to us here

1155
00:24:44.583 --> 00:24:45.367
in the Utah Test

1156
00:24:45.367 --> 00:24:46.268
and training Range.

1157
00:24:46.268 --> 00:24:46.501
A lot

1158
00:24:46.501 --> 00:24:46.885
coming up in

1159
00:24:46.885 --> 00:24:47.636
just a few moments.

1160
00:24:47.636 --> 00:24:48.787
But for now, back to you.

1161
00:24:48.787 --> 00:24:50.622
Learning, Jim.

1162
00:24:50.705 --> 00:24:51.907
Thanks, James.

1163
00:24:51.907 --> 00:24:52.657
Very soon,

1164
00:24:52.657 --> 00:24:54.092
NASA's Artemis program

1165
00:24:54.092 --> 00:24:54.960
will be bringing us

1166
00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:56.194
more cosmic samples

1167
00:24:56.194 --> 00:24:56.611
to study

1168
00:24:56.611 --> 00:24:57.846
by visiting a familiar

1169
00:24:57.846 --> 00:24:59.197
beacon in the sky.

1170
00:24:59.197 --> 00:25:00.415
Give us 60 seconds

1171
00:25:00.415 --> 00:25:03.418
and we'll give you the moon.

1172
00:25:03.418 --> 00:25:04.402
Artemis three will be

1173
00:25:04.402 --> 00:25:05.737
the first sample return

1174
00:25:05.737 --> 00:25:06.721
mission of NASA's

1175
00:25:06.721 --> 00:25:08.006
Artemis program.

1176
00:25:08.006 --> 00:25:08.823
Sampling rocks

1177
00:25:08.823 --> 00:25:09.624
and regolith

1178
00:25:09.624 --> 00:25:10.792
from one of 13

1179
00:25:10.792 --> 00:25:12.661
candidate regions on the moon.

1180
00:25:12.661 --> 00:25:13.345
All located

1181
00:25:13.345 --> 00:25:15.263
near the Lunar South Pole.

1182
00:25:15.263 --> 00:25:16.531
The Apollo lunar landers

1183
00:25:16.531 --> 00:25:17.516
returned a treasure

1184
00:25:17.516 --> 00:25:18.984
chest of samples that taught us

1185
00:25:18.984 --> 00:25:19.734
about the history

1186
00:25:19.734 --> 00:25:21.152
of the solar system,

1187
00:25:21.152 --> 00:25:21.720
dating back

1188
00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:24.172
about 4 billion years ago.

1189
00:25:24.172 --> 00:25:24.573
Part of this

1190
00:25:24.573 --> 00:25:25.557
missions will explore

1191
00:25:25.557 --> 00:25:26.758
areas near the South

1192
00:25:26.758 --> 00:25:28.326
Pole on the rim of the moon's

1193
00:25:28.326 --> 00:25:29.828
oldest basin,

1194
00:25:29.828 --> 00:25:30.862
the enormous South

1195
00:25:30.862 --> 00:25:32.814
Pole Aiken Basin.

1196
00:25:32.814 --> 00:25:33.848
Artemus will explore

1197
00:25:33.848 --> 00:25:34.583
areas nearly

1198
00:25:34.583 --> 00:25:36.334
1 billion years older than

1199
00:25:36.334 --> 00:25:38.987
those explored by Apollo

1200
00:25:39.054 --> 00:25:39.804
lunar samples

1201
00:25:39.804 --> 00:25:41.072
from Artemus three.

1202
00:25:41.072 --> 00:25:42.240
And future missions

1203
00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:43.825
will help scientists interpret

1204
00:25:43.825 --> 00:25:45.360
the impact history of the Moon

1205
00:25:45.360 --> 00:25:46.294
and Earth,

1206
00:25:46.294 --> 00:25:47.162
as well as increase

1207
00:25:47.162 --> 00:25:48.029
our understanding

1208
00:25:48.029 --> 00:25:50.248
of planetary processes.

1209
00:25:50.248 --> 00:25:52.500
Osiris-rex The first U.S.

1210
00:25:52.500 --> 00:25:53.184
mission to collect

1211
00:25:53.184 --> 00:25:54.686
a sample from an asteroid

1212
00:25:54.686 --> 00:25:55.770
will return samples

1213
00:25:55.770 --> 00:25:57.722
from asteroid BENNU.

1214
00:25:57.722 --> 00:25:59.190
The rocks and dust collected

1215
00:25:59.190 --> 00:26:00.392
will offer generations

1216
00:26:00.392 --> 00:26:01.026
of scientists

1217
00:26:01.026 --> 00:26:02.377
a window into a time

1218
00:26:02.377 --> 00:26:03.445
when the sun and planets

1219
00:26:03.445 --> 00:26:04.312
were forming over

1220
00:26:04.312 --> 00:26:06.848
4.5 billion years ago.

1221
00:26:06.848 --> 00:26:08.333
Samples from Osiris-rex

1222
00:26:08.333 --> 00:26:09.184
and Artemus

1223
00:26:09.184 --> 00:26:09.868
could rewrite

1224
00:26:09.868 --> 00:26:10.769
our understanding

1225
00:26:10.769 --> 00:26:11.736
of the evolution

1226
00:26:11.736 --> 00:26:13.538
of the solar system.

1227
00:26:13.538 --> 00:26:14.155
And that's a

1228
00:26:14.155 --> 00:26:15.540
look at your Artemus

1229
00:26:15.540 --> 00:26:17.976
more minute,

1230
00:26:17.976 --> 00:26:18.209
boy.

1231
00:26:18.209 --> 00:26:18.810
Jim, how can you

1232
00:26:18.810 --> 00:26:20.645
not get excited? Oh, my gosh.

1233
00:26:20.645 --> 00:26:21.546
Oh, boy.

1234
00:26:21.546 --> 00:26:23.098
That's going to be so cool.

1235
00:26:23.098 --> 00:26:23.465
All right.

1236
00:26:23.465 --> 00:26:24.783
Sofia is standing

1237
00:26:24.783 --> 00:26:25.684
at the forward edge

1238
00:26:25.684 --> 00:26:26.635
of the recovery zone

1239
00:26:26.635 --> 00:26:27.369
with an update.

1240
00:26:27.369 --> 00:26:30.672
Take it away, Sofia.

1241
00:26:30.755 --> 00:26:31.139
All right.

1242
00:26:31.139 --> 00:26:32.073
Thank you, Lauren.

1243
00:26:32.073 --> 00:26:34.259
We are under 20 minutes away

1244
00:26:34.259 --> 00:26:36.094
from EDL.

1245
00:26:36.094 --> 00:26:38.196
That is entry, descent

1246
00:26:38.196 --> 00:26:39.180
and landing.

1247
00:26:39.180 --> 00:26:40.148
And I don't think there's

1248
00:26:40.148 --> 00:26:42.417
anyone here on planet Earth

1249
00:26:42.417 --> 00:26:43.468
who has anticipated

1250
00:26:43.468 --> 00:26:43.868
this day

1251
00:26:43.868 --> 00:26:44.853
more than the

1252
00:26:44.853 --> 00:26:46.321
principal investigator

1253
00:26:46.321 --> 00:26:47.372
of the mission.

1254
00:26:47.372 --> 00:26:48.623
Dante Lauretta,

1255
00:26:48.623 --> 00:26:50.108
thank you for giving us

1256
00:26:50.108 --> 00:26:51.810
time here today.

1257
00:26:51.810 --> 00:26:52.327
My pleasure.

1258
00:26:52.327 --> 00:26:53.345
It's great to be here.

1259
00:26:53.345 --> 00:26:53.762
All right.

1260
00:26:53.762 --> 00:26:54.713
So you were here

1261
00:26:54.713 --> 00:26:55.797
on Wig Mountain

1262
00:26:55.797 --> 00:26:56.398
because you were

1263
00:26:56.398 --> 00:26:58.383
on the recovery team.

1264
00:26:58.383 --> 00:26:58.917
That's right.

1265
00:26:58.917 --> 00:26:59.818
Can you walk us through

1266
00:26:59.818 --> 00:27:00.418
what you're going to

1267
00:27:00.418 --> 00:27:01.386
be doing today?

1268
00:27:01.386 --> 00:27:01.836
So I'm

1269
00:27:01.836 --> 00:27:02.854
part of the environmental

1270
00:27:02.854 --> 00:27:05.040
sampling group from day one.

1271
00:27:05.040 --> 00:27:06.608
This mission has paid attention

1272
00:27:06.608 --> 00:27:07.325
to keeping that

1273
00:27:07.325 --> 00:27:09.027
sample pristine.

1274
00:27:09.027 --> 00:27:10.028
And we're going to come down.

1275
00:27:10.028 --> 00:27:11.579
We had some rain on Thursday.

1276
00:27:11.579 --> 00:27:12.147
Most likely

1277
00:27:12.147 --> 00:27:13.164
we're going to be encountering

1278
00:27:13.164 --> 00:27:14.399
mud out there.

1279
00:27:14.399 --> 00:27:15.183
We're also interested

1280
00:27:15.183 --> 00:27:16.985
in the air quality

1281
00:27:16.985 --> 00:27:18.003
and any water

1282
00:27:18.003 --> 00:27:19.137
that might be standing

1283
00:27:19.137 --> 00:27:22.173
just so in the very rare event

1284
00:27:22.173 --> 00:27:23.458
that any of that material

1285
00:27:23.458 --> 00:27:24.809
somehow comes into contact

1286
00:27:24.809 --> 00:27:25.327
with the sample,

1287
00:27:25.327 --> 00:27:26.544
we have a record of it

1288
00:27:26.544 --> 00:27:27.696
and it won't compromise

1289
00:27:27.696 --> 00:27:29.848
our science. Oh, wonderful.

1290
00:27:29.848 --> 00:27:30.415
And I think one of the

1291
00:27:30.415 --> 00:27:31.566
really exciting things

1292
00:27:31.566 --> 00:27:32.667
about a mission like this,

1293
00:27:32.667 --> 00:27:33.818
especially with you

1294
00:27:33.818 --> 00:27:34.386
working with

1295
00:27:34.386 --> 00:27:35.670
the University of Arizona,

1296
00:27:35.670 --> 00:27:36.905
is that you're partnering

1297
00:27:36.905 --> 00:27:38.606
with educational institutes.

1298
00:27:38.606 --> 00:27:39.724
And so can you talk

1299
00:27:39.724 --> 00:27:40.108
a little bit

1300
00:27:40.108 --> 00:27:41.376
about who legacy

1301
00:27:41.376 --> 00:27:43.228
that a mission like this has?

1302
00:27:43.228 --> 00:27:43.945
Yeah, Thank you.

1303
00:27:43.945 --> 00:27:44.846
I'm a professor

1304
00:27:44.846 --> 00:27:45.847
at the University of Arizona

1305
00:27:45.847 --> 00:27:46.297
in the Lunar

1306
00:27:46.297 --> 00:27:47.549
and Planetary Laboratory.

1307
00:27:47.549 --> 00:27:48.483
And our history goes

1308
00:27:48.483 --> 00:27:49.167
all the way back

1309
00:27:49.167 --> 00:27:50.285
to the Apollo missions.

1310
00:27:50.285 --> 00:27:51.786
The founder of our lab,

1311
00:27:51.786 --> 00:27:53.555
Gerard Kuiper, mapped

1312
00:27:53.555 --> 00:27:54.622
the moon, helped

1313
00:27:54.622 --> 00:27:56.007
pick the Apollo landing sites

1314
00:27:56.007 --> 00:27:57.208
in the surveyor landing sites.

1315
00:27:57.208 --> 00:27:58.643
And we have been involved

1316
00:27:58.643 --> 00:27:59.978
in every major NASA's

1317
00:27:59.978 --> 00:28:01.763
planetary mission since then.

1318
00:28:01.763 --> 00:28:03.114
And really the best part

1319
00:28:03.114 --> 00:28:04.532
of having a university

1320
00:28:04.532 --> 00:28:05.884
lead a program like this is

1321
00:28:05.884 --> 00:28:06.751
that it's a great

1322
00:28:06.751 --> 00:28:07.552
training ground

1323
00:28:07.552 --> 00:28:09.120
for the next generation.

1324
00:28:09.120 --> 00:28:10.105
I've been on this program

1325
00:28:10.105 --> 00:28:11.456
almost 20 years

1326
00:28:11.456 --> 00:28:12.607
and I've watched multiple

1327
00:28:12.607 --> 00:28:13.858
generations of students

1328
00:28:13.858 --> 00:28:14.743
grow up,

1329
00:28:14.743 --> 00:28:16.144
become professionals,

1330
00:28:16.144 --> 00:28:17.228
either join the team,

1331
00:28:17.228 --> 00:28:18.563
we always take,

1332
00:28:18.563 --> 00:28:18.847
you know,

1333
00:28:18.847 --> 00:28:20.882
our team members on board

1334
00:28:20.882 --> 00:28:22.684
when we need to fill roles

1335
00:28:22.684 --> 00:28:24.486
or off into other careers

1336
00:28:24.486 --> 00:28:25.203
in aerospace

1337
00:28:25.203 --> 00:28:26.221
engineering, science

1338
00:28:26.221 --> 00:28:27.989
and many other disciplines.

1339
00:28:27.989 --> 00:28:29.457
It's really great to foster

1340
00:28:29.457 --> 00:28:30.809
those incredible questions

1341
00:28:30.809 --> 00:28:31.976
about our universe.

1342
00:28:31.976 --> 00:28:32.527
Absolutely.

1343
00:28:32.527 --> 00:28:33.578
And I know that you need

1344
00:28:33.578 --> 00:28:35.346
to get back to your team

1345
00:28:35.346 --> 00:28:37.248
to go on that recovery process.

1346
00:28:37.248 --> 00:28:38.550
Moments almost here. Yeah.

1347
00:28:38.550 --> 00:28:39.484
So thank you so much

1348
00:28:39.484 --> 00:28:40.118
for joining us

1349
00:28:40.118 --> 00:28:41.152
and best of luck out

1350
00:28:41.152 --> 00:28:43.488
there today. Yeah. All right.

1351
00:28:43.555 --> 00:28:45.657
Back to you, Lauren.

1352
00:28:45.657 --> 00:28:46.775
Great. Thanks, Sophia.

1353
00:28:46.775 --> 00:28:47.642
Wow, I can't wait

1354
00:28:47.642 --> 00:28:48.810
for Dante to get his moment in.

1355
00:28:48.810 --> 00:28:51.780
The sun goes. Dante is amazing.

1356
00:28:51.780 --> 00:28:52.797
All right, so, Jim,

1357
00:28:52.797 --> 00:28:54.215
the whole Osiris

1358
00:28:54.215 --> 00:28:56.217
Rex spacecraft is not

1359
00:28:56.217 --> 00:28:57.719
coming back today, right?

1360
00:28:57.719 --> 00:28:58.653
It's just a part of it.

1361
00:28:58.653 --> 00:28:59.154
That's right.

1362
00:28:59.154 --> 00:29:00.338
This is the whole spacecraft,

1363
00:29:00.338 --> 00:29:01.289
40 feet long.

1364
00:29:01.289 --> 00:29:02.490
the size of a school bus.

1365
00:29:02.490 --> 00:29:04.225
But this special little thing

1366
00:29:04.225 --> 00:29:05.643
here, the sample return

1367
00:29:05.643 --> 00:29:07.112
capsule is bringing home

1368
00:29:07.112 --> 00:29:07.896
the goodies.

1369
00:29:07.896 --> 00:29:08.313
And that's

1370
00:29:08.313 --> 00:29:09.514
what we've just released.

1371
00:29:09.514 --> 00:29:09.898
And it will be

1372
00:29:09.898 --> 00:29:10.715
entering the atmosphere

1373
00:29:10.715 --> 00:29:11.282
and you'll be hearing

1374
00:29:11.282 --> 00:29:12.066
all about it.

1375
00:29:12.066 --> 00:29:13.318
And the samples were collected

1376
00:29:13.318 --> 00:29:14.169
at the asteroid back

1377
00:29:14.169 --> 00:29:15.603
in October of 2020

1378
00:29:15.603 --> 00:29:17.038
from this tagsam thing

1379
00:29:17.038 --> 00:29:17.789
that inserted them

1380
00:29:17.789 --> 00:29:18.506
in the capsule

1381
00:29:18.506 --> 00:29:19.891
and the capsule was released.

1382
00:29:19.891 --> 00:29:20.875
So that's what comes home.

1383
00:29:20.875 --> 00:29:21.659
The rest of this

1384
00:29:21.659 --> 00:29:22.827
goes on to Apophis.

1385
00:29:22.827 --> 00:29:23.228
That's right.

1386
00:29:23.228 --> 00:29:23.945
We just heard Lori

1387
00:29:23.945 --> 00:29:24.712
talk about that.

1388
00:29:24.712 --> 00:29:25.747
But let's move over

1389
00:29:25.747 --> 00:29:27.782
and take a look at this.

1390
00:29:27.782 --> 00:29:29.851
This replica s RC capsule.

1391
00:29:29.851 --> 00:29:30.785
Now, this was

1392
00:29:30.785 --> 00:29:31.619
an engineering model

1393
00:29:31.619 --> 00:29:32.704
that was used in tests

1394
00:29:32.704 --> 00:29:33.538
a couple of weeks ago,

1395
00:29:33.538 --> 00:29:34.506
for a few weeks ago

1396
00:29:34.506 --> 00:29:35.523
for a drop test.

1397
00:29:35.523 --> 00:29:36.274
Can you talk a little bit

1398
00:29:36.274 --> 00:29:37.358
about the engineering of this?

1399
00:29:37.358 --> 00:29:37.776
That's right.

1400
00:29:37.776 --> 00:29:38.460
This is a very

1401
00:29:38.460 --> 00:29:39.360
special spacecraft,

1402
00:29:39.360 --> 00:29:40.745
just like a small version

1403
00:29:40.745 --> 00:29:40.929
of what

1404
00:29:40.929 --> 00:29:42.514
we used to bring crews back

1405
00:29:42.514 --> 00:29:43.565
when they come back home

1406
00:29:43.565 --> 00:29:43.948
to Earth

1407
00:29:43.948 --> 00:29:45.300
from the space station.

1408
00:29:45.300 --> 00:29:46.434
It has a heat shield.

1409
00:29:46.434 --> 00:29:48.119
It's about 30 inches across.

1410
00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:48.870
So it's pretty big.

1411
00:29:48.870 --> 00:29:50.705
Weighs over £100, has a back

1412
00:29:50.705 --> 00:29:51.506
showing inside.

1413
00:29:51.506 --> 00:29:52.507
It has the goodies,

1414
00:29:52.507 --> 00:29:54.209
the sample return canister

1415
00:29:54.209 --> 00:29:55.643
and the sample cap,

1416
00:29:55.643 --> 00:29:57.212
the small sample canister.

1417
00:29:57.212 --> 00:29:58.596
So this is the vehicle

1418
00:29:58.596 --> 00:29:59.881
that brings those samples

1419
00:29:59.881 --> 00:30:00.715
protected

1420
00:30:00.715 --> 00:30:01.800
from all those changes

1421
00:30:01.800 --> 00:30:02.333
in environment

1422
00:30:02.333 --> 00:30:03.818
from the top of the atmosphere.

1423
00:30:03.818 --> 00:30:05.520
13 minutes of descent

1424
00:30:05.520 --> 00:30:06.538
to the touchdown point

1425
00:30:06.538 --> 00:30:07.655
that we're waiting for today.

1426
00:30:07.655 --> 00:30:08.606
This is a

1427
00:30:08.606 --> 00:30:10.175
very special spacecraft.

1428
00:30:10.175 --> 00:30:11.009
It absolutely is.

1429
00:30:11.009 --> 00:30:11.976
And it also was used

1430
00:30:11.976 --> 00:30:13.228
in a drop test, as I mentioned.

1431
00:30:13.228 --> 00:30:13.928
Let's take a look at

1432
00:30:13.928 --> 00:30:15.947
some of that footage now.

1433
00:30:16.014 --> 00:30:16.381
Right.

1434
00:30:16.381 --> 00:30:17.499
So just

1435
00:30:17.499 --> 00:30:18.449
a couple of weeks ago,

1436
00:30:18.449 --> 00:30:19.834
we dropped this replica,

1437
00:30:19.834 --> 00:30:21.336
this engineering test unit,

1438
00:30:21.336 --> 00:30:22.504
from 5000 feet

1439
00:30:22.504 --> 00:30:24.239
with a parachute deployment

1440
00:30:24.239 --> 00:30:24.873
and went through

1441
00:30:24.873 --> 00:30:25.807
all the operations,

1442
00:30:25.807 --> 00:30:26.641
the choreography.

1443
00:30:26.641 --> 00:30:27.458
We need

1444
00:30:27.458 --> 00:30:28.259
to actually make sure

1445
00:30:28.259 --> 00:30:29.160
we can do it today.

1446
00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:29.527
And that's

1447
00:30:29.527 --> 00:30:30.628
what's going to be coming up.

1448
00:30:30.628 --> 00:30:31.746
And it worked wonderfully.

1449
00:30:31.746 --> 00:30:32.463
We inflated

1450
00:30:32.463 --> 00:30:34.115
the big 24 foot parachute.

1451
00:30:34.115 --> 00:30:35.583
It's loaded down to the surface

1452
00:30:35.583 --> 00:30:36.868
at 11 miles an hour.

1453
00:30:36.868 --> 00:30:37.418
We went through

1454
00:30:37.418 --> 00:30:38.636
all the recovery operations,

1455
00:30:38.636 --> 00:30:39.487
the same thing,

1456
00:30:39.487 --> 00:30:40.889
the bagging and the containment

1457
00:30:40.889 --> 00:30:41.422
to come over

1458
00:30:41.422 --> 00:30:42.540
to the clean room here,

1459
00:30:42.540 --> 00:30:43.741
where we'll be doing that today

1460
00:30:43.741 --> 00:30:45.360
to make sure those samples

1461
00:30:45.360 --> 00:30:46.594
are from Bennu

1462
00:30:46.594 --> 00:30:47.312
so we can study

1463
00:30:47.312 --> 00:30:47.996
them here on Earth

1464
00:30:47.996 --> 00:30:49.097
and not contaminate

1465
00:30:49.097 --> 00:30:50.798
by our wonderful Earth.

1466
00:30:50.798 --> 00:30:51.216
That's right.

1467
00:30:51.216 --> 00:30:53.318
And, you know, it's the actual

1468
00:30:53.401 --> 00:30:54.135
CRC that they use

1469
00:30:54.135 --> 00:30:55.353
because it is covered in dirt,

1470
00:30:55.353 --> 00:30:56.137
as you could see here.

1471
00:30:56.137 --> 00:30:57.388
This is dirt scratch marks.

1472
00:30:57.388 --> 00:30:58.289
All the scratch marks.

1473
00:30:58.289 --> 00:31:00.208
Yeah, it's a rough ride, but

1474
00:31:00.208 --> 00:31:01.626
we need it to come home.

1475
00:31:01.626 --> 00:31:02.460
This is a real

1476
00:31:02.460 --> 00:31:03.928
sort of homecoming, right?

1477
00:31:03.928 --> 00:31:04.979
So there's a lot of science

1478
00:31:04.979 --> 00:31:06.247
in missions like this.

1479
00:31:06.247 --> 00:31:07.232
Not only is the

1480
00:31:07.232 --> 00:31:07.949
CRC a treasure

1481
00:31:07.949 --> 00:31:09.067
chest with material

1482
00:31:09.067 --> 00:31:10.952
from the ancient solar system,

1483
00:31:10.952 --> 00:31:12.053
but the mission itself

1484
00:31:12.053 --> 00:31:12.654
is a platform

1485
00:31:12.654 --> 00:31:13.504
for vital research

1486
00:31:13.504 --> 00:31:14.556
about a range of things

1487
00:31:14.556 --> 00:31:15.306
that you might

1488
00:31:15.306 --> 00:31:19.344
not have expected.

1489
00:31:19.427 --> 00:31:20.011
Sci fi.

1490
00:31:20.011 --> 00:31:20.545
Its mission

1491
00:31:20.545 --> 00:31:21.145
is to collect

1492
00:31:21.145 --> 00:31:22.230
visual infrared

1493
00:31:22.230 --> 00:31:23.047
and spectral data

1494
00:31:23.047 --> 00:31:23.648
on spaceflight

1495
00:31:23.648 --> 00:31:24.249
vehicles,

1496
00:31:24.249 --> 00:31:25.433
including the Osiris-rex

1497
00:31:25.433 --> 00:31:26.017
sample return

1498
00:31:26.017 --> 00:31:27.602
capsule on its return to Earth.

1499
00:31:27.602 --> 00:31:28.503
This gives engineers

1500
00:31:28.503 --> 00:31:29.888
and scientists unique insight

1501
00:31:29.888 --> 00:31:30.455
into our most

1502
00:31:30.455 --> 00:31:31.406
challenging questions

1503
00:31:31.406 --> 00:31:33.174
about hypersonic fluid dynamics

1504
00:31:33.174 --> 00:31:34.492
By providing data critical

1505
00:31:34.492 --> 00:31:36.527
to flight safety systems,

1506
00:31:36.594 --> 00:31:37.262
the scientifically

1507
00:31:37.262 --> 00:31:38.513
calibrated in-flight imagery

1508
00:31:38.513 --> 00:31:39.631
team uses ground

1509
00:31:39.631 --> 00:31:40.415
based sensors

1510
00:31:40.415 --> 00:31:41.015
and instruments

1511
00:31:41.015 --> 00:31:42.634
flying on various aircraft

1512
00:31:42.634 --> 00:31:43.084
to image

1513
00:31:43.084 --> 00:31:44.586
asteroid sample returns,

1514
00:31:44.586 --> 00:31:45.119
launch abort

1515
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:45.937
systems,

1516
00:31:45.937 --> 00:31:47.438
parachute test rocket

1517
00:31:47.438 --> 00:31:49.223
launches and capsule returns,

1518
00:31:49.223 --> 00:31:49.924
including autonomous

1519
00:31:49.924 --> 00:31:52.594
one on both launch and reentry.

1520
00:31:52.594 --> 00:31:52.944
The data

1521
00:31:52.944 --> 00:31:54.362
we capture provides engineers

1522
00:31:54.362 --> 00:31:55.163
with information

1523
00:31:55.163 --> 00:31:55.647
on vehicle

1524
00:31:55.647 --> 00:31:56.664
performance, relative

1525
00:31:56.664 --> 00:31:58.049
to what computational tools

1526
00:31:58.049 --> 00:31:58.833
and wind tunnel tests.

1527
00:31:58.833 --> 00:31:59.667
Today,

1528
00:31:59.667 --> 00:32:00.418
it takes extensive

1529
00:32:00.418 --> 00:32:01.953
planning to get it right.

1530
00:32:01.953 --> 00:32:02.804
Upon its return to

1531
00:32:02.804 --> 00:32:03.655
the asteroid belt.

1532
00:32:03.655 --> 00:32:04.672
The Osiris-rex capsule

1533
00:32:04.672 --> 00:32:05.406
will be traveling

1534
00:32:05.406 --> 00:32:06.307
at 12 kilometers

1535
00:32:06.307 --> 00:32:07.058
per second,

1536
00:32:07.058 --> 00:32:09.427
or about 27,000 miles per hour.

1537
00:32:09.427 --> 00:32:10.228
That's nearly twice

1538
00:32:10.228 --> 00:32:11.212
as fast as objects

1539
00:32:11.212 --> 00:32:12.714
coming back to low-Earth orbit,

1540
00:32:12.714 --> 00:32:13.615
and it will be among

1541
00:32:13.615 --> 00:32:14.515
the fastest

1542
00:32:14.515 --> 00:32:15.516
human made objects ever

1543
00:32:15.516 --> 00:32:17.518
to find Earth's atmosphere

1544
00:32:17.518 --> 00:32:18.803
in partnership with the Japan

1545
00:32:18.803 --> 00:32:20.488
Aerospace Exploration Agency,

1546
00:32:20.488 --> 00:32:20.738
like AI

1547
00:32:20.738 --> 00:32:22.106
Technologies, International

1548
00:32:22.106 --> 00:32:22.957
and universities

1549
00:32:22.957 --> 00:32:24.726
in Australia and Germany,

1550
00:32:24.726 --> 00:32:25.777
sci fi is coordinating

1551
00:32:25.777 --> 00:32:26.828
three ground stations

1552
00:32:26.828 --> 00:32:27.729
and four aircraft

1553
00:32:27.729 --> 00:32:28.463
to collect data

1554
00:32:28.463 --> 00:32:29.247
on the sample return

1555
00:32:29.247 --> 00:32:30.665
capsule, factory

1556
00:32:30.665 --> 00:32:31.683
heat shield performance

1557
00:32:31.683 --> 00:32:32.850
and the plasma environment

1558
00:32:32.850 --> 00:32:33.901
surrounding the capsule

1559
00:32:33.901 --> 00:32:35.586
as it speaks to the surface,

1560
00:32:35.586 --> 00:32:36.804
all of which will help NASA's

1561
00:32:36.804 --> 00:32:38.156
understand its performance

1562
00:32:38.156 --> 00:32:39.090
and help future

1563
00:32:39.090 --> 00:32:40.358
planetary entry missions

1564
00:32:40.358 --> 00:32:43.428
to see.

1565
00:32:43.494 --> 00:32:44.379
Joining us now

1566
00:32:44.379 --> 00:32:45.096
is NASA's

1567
00:32:45.096 --> 00:32:46.347
Kate Calvin, chief

1568
00:32:46.347 --> 00:32:48.216
scientist and climate advisor.

1569
00:32:48.216 --> 00:32:48.516
Kate,

1570
00:32:48.516 --> 00:32:49.317
thank you so much

1571
00:32:49.317 --> 00:32:51.069
for being here.

1572
00:32:51.069 --> 00:32:52.470
It is wonderful to have you.

1573
00:32:52.470 --> 00:32:52.704
All right.

1574
00:32:52.704 --> 00:32:54.305
So as NASA's chief scientist,

1575
00:32:54.305 --> 00:32:55.023
you're looking at

1576
00:32:55.023 --> 00:32:56.491
the big picture.

1577
00:32:56.491 --> 00:32:57.091
You know how much

1578
00:32:57.091 --> 00:32:57.775
teamwork across

1579
00:32:57.775 --> 00:32:59.427
the agency has made to,

1580
00:32:59.427 --> 00:33:00.478
you know, a day like today,

1581
00:33:00.478 --> 00:33:01.446
a possibility,

1582
00:33:01.446 --> 00:33:02.347
a mission like this

1583
00:33:02.347 --> 00:33:03.147
takes a big team

1584
00:33:03.147 --> 00:33:04.716
both with NASA and without.

1585
00:33:04.716 --> 00:33:06.718
So we outside of NASA.

1586
00:33:06.718 --> 00:33:06.968
So with

1587
00:33:06.968 --> 00:33:07.835
the mission is managed

1588
00:33:07.835 --> 00:33:08.553
by Goddard Space

1589
00:33:08.553 --> 00:33:09.988
Flight Center in Maryland,

1590
00:33:09.988 --> 00:33:11.039
the sample is going to be going

1591
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:11.572
to the Johnson

1592
00:33:11.572 --> 00:33:13.024
Space Center in Texas

1593
00:33:13.024 --> 00:33:14.876
after it leaves here.

1594
00:33:14.876 --> 00:33:15.960
Marshall Space Flight Center

1595
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:16.894
in Alabama does

1596
00:33:16.894 --> 00:33:18.446
the overall program management

1597
00:33:18.446 --> 00:33:19.263
outside of now.

1598
00:33:19.263 --> 00:33:20.465
So we have collaboration

1599
00:33:20.465 --> 00:33:21.749
both in industry, academia

1600
00:33:21.749 --> 00:33:22.834
and international.

1601
00:33:22.834 --> 00:33:23.468
So Lockheed

1602
00:33:23.468 --> 00:33:25.770
Martin is doing the space

1603
00:33:25.770 --> 00:33:26.587
built spacecraft,

1604
00:33:26.587 --> 00:33:27.689
doing flight ops,

1605
00:33:27.689 --> 00:33:29.941
Kinetics is doing navigation.

1606
00:33:29.941 --> 00:33:30.925
We have a science team

1607
00:33:30.925 --> 00:33:31.526
led by the

1608
00:33:31.526 --> 00:33:33.244
University of Arizona,

1609
00:33:33.244 --> 00:33:35.129
and then we have the operations

1610
00:33:35.129 --> 00:33:35.546
held up

1611
00:33:35.546 --> 00:33:36.431
to one of the target

1612
00:33:36.431 --> 00:33:37.165
work critical

1613
00:33:37.165 --> 00:33:37.715
to station

1614
00:33:37.715 --> 00:33:38.966
people outside the landing.

1615
00:33:38.966 --> 00:33:40.051
And that's what

1616
00:33:40.051 --> 00:33:41.436
we got a confirmation

1617
00:33:41.436 --> 00:33:42.537
that helicopters, one

1618
00:33:42.537 --> 00:33:44.222
and two, have just taken off.

1619
00:33:44.222 --> 00:33:46.207
Very exciting. All right.

1620
00:33:46.207 --> 00:33:47.408
So, Kate, one of the things

1621
00:33:47.408 --> 00:33:48.626
as an Earth science and expert

1622
00:33:48.626 --> 00:33:49.293
on how our planet

1623
00:33:49.293 --> 00:33:50.461
works and climate,

1624
00:33:50.461 --> 00:33:50.695
you know,

1625
00:33:50.695 --> 00:33:51.262
can you tell us

1626
00:33:51.262 --> 00:33:53.131
how how this asteroid

1627
00:33:53.131 --> 00:33:53.948
mission, the samples

1628
00:33:53.948 --> 00:33:54.932
we return, might impact

1629
00:33:54.932 --> 00:33:55.583
how we understand

1630
00:33:55.583 --> 00:33:56.401
life on Earth,

1631
00:33:56.401 --> 00:33:57.085
how it evolved

1632
00:33:57.085 --> 00:33:58.536
and how climate issues

1633
00:33:58.536 --> 00:34:00.188
now might be involved. Yeah.

1634
00:34:00.188 --> 00:34:01.522
So this asteroid, asteroid

1635
00:34:01.522 --> 00:34:02.557
BENNU may record

1636
00:34:02.557 --> 00:34:03.541
some of the earliest history

1637
00:34:03.541 --> 00:34:04.792
of our solar system.

1638
00:34:04.792 --> 00:34:06.094
So scientists are looking at it

1639
00:34:06.094 --> 00:34:06.994
to help us understand

1640
00:34:06.994 --> 00:34:08.396
planet formation

1641
00:34:08.396 --> 00:34:09.097
and the origins

1642
00:34:09.097 --> 00:34:10.164
of water and carbon,

1643
00:34:10.164 --> 00:34:10.948
which led to life

1644
00:34:10.948 --> 00:34:11.916
here on Earth.

1645
00:34:11.916 --> 00:34:12.784
That's incredible.

1646
00:34:12.784 --> 00:34:13.768
Is incredible.

1647
00:34:13.768 --> 00:34:14.485
And, you know,

1648
00:34:14.485 --> 00:34:15.787
I know you've been to several

1649
00:34:15.787 --> 00:34:16.621
launches.

1650
00:34:16.621 --> 00:34:17.755
That's our typical bread

1651
00:34:17.755 --> 00:34:18.990
and butter here at NASA,

1652
00:34:18.990 --> 00:34:19.624
but this is more

1653
00:34:19.624 --> 00:34:20.308
of a homecoming.

1654
00:34:20.308 --> 00:34:21.359
How does that feel to you?

1655
00:34:21.359 --> 00:34:21.993
It's great.

1656
00:34:21.993 --> 00:34:23.678
The environment here is so nice

1657
00:34:23.678 --> 00:34:24.579
to being with the team

1658
00:34:24.579 --> 00:34:25.613
and thinking about, you know,

1659
00:34:25.613 --> 00:34:26.647
this spacecraft launched

1660
00:34:26.647 --> 00:34:27.749
seven years ago

1661
00:34:27.749 --> 00:34:28.733
and now there's all this

1662
00:34:28.733 --> 00:34:29.634
amazing science

1663
00:34:29.634 --> 00:34:30.435
just around the corner.

1664
00:34:30.435 --> 00:34:31.085
Can you believe it?

1665
00:34:31.085 --> 00:34:31.836
The team has really

1666
00:34:31.836 --> 00:34:32.637
been working hard.

1667
00:34:32.637 --> 00:34:33.638
And are you going

1668
00:34:33.638 --> 00:34:36.340
to stick around for the show?

1669
00:34:36.424 --> 00:34:37.358
Fantastic.

1670
00:34:37.358 --> 00:34:37.592
All right.

1671
00:34:37.592 --> 00:34:38.009
Well, Kate,

1672
00:34:38.009 --> 00:34:39.393
thank you so much

1673
00:34:39.393 --> 00:34:40.678
for for joining us.

1674
00:34:40.678 --> 00:34:42.029
Thanks, Kate, for all you do.

1675
00:34:42.029 --> 00:34:43.748
Thank you so much.

1676
00:34:43.748 --> 00:34:45.333
This seems like a perfect time

1677
00:34:45.333 --> 00:34:46.050
to dig into

1678
00:34:46.050 --> 00:34:47.168
some more information

1679
00:34:47.168 --> 00:34:48.903
about Bennu.

1680
00:34:48.903 --> 00:34:50.254
Bennu isn't part of the main

1681
00:34:50.254 --> 00:34:51.005
asteroid belt.

1682
00:34:51.005 --> 00:34:51.956
It's a neo,

1683
00:34:51.956 --> 00:34:53.307
a near-Earth asteroid

1684
00:34:53.307 --> 00:34:53.941
with an orbit

1685
00:34:53.941 --> 00:34:54.959
that occasionally brings

1686
00:34:54.959 --> 00:34:56.377
it close in close proximity

1687
00:34:56.377 --> 00:34:57.962
with us here on Earth.

1688
00:34:57.962 --> 00:34:59.063
Then it was about 500

1689
00:34:59.063 --> 00:35:00.031
meters in diameter,

1690
00:35:00.031 --> 00:35:01.149
which is taller than

1691
00:35:01.149 --> 00:35:02.817
the Empire State Building.

1692
00:35:02.817 --> 00:35:03.935
It rotates upside

1693
00:35:03.935 --> 00:35:04.919
down on its axis

1694
00:35:04.919 --> 00:35:05.787
compared to Earth

1695
00:35:05.787 --> 00:35:06.938
with a tilt of over

1696
00:35:06.938 --> 00:35:09.390
177 degrees.

1697
00:35:09.390 --> 00:35:10.925
Scientists chose to study Bennu

1698
00:35:10.925 --> 00:35:12.176
because recovery operations

1699
00:35:12.176 --> 00:35:14.545
helicopter to have departed

1700
00:35:14.545 --> 00:35:15.246
the station

1701
00:35:15.246 --> 00:35:16.981
keep outside the landing craft.

1702
00:35:16.981 --> 00:35:17.365
All right.

1703
00:35:17.365 --> 00:35:18.116
So you just heard that

1704
00:35:18.116 --> 00:35:19.433
they have departed wig.

1705
00:35:19.433 --> 00:35:21.219
Excellent progress. Fantastic.

1706
00:35:21.219 --> 00:35:23.070
All right, moving on.

1707
00:35:23.070 --> 00:35:24.922
It isn't as smooth a surface

1708
00:35:24.922 --> 00:35:25.807
as we initially thought.

1709
00:35:25.807 --> 00:35:26.190
It's actually

1710
00:35:26.190 --> 00:35:27.608
covered in pebbles

1711
00:35:27.608 --> 00:35:29.193
and marked by these large rocks

1712
00:35:29.193 --> 00:35:30.895
and boulders nearly everywhere.

1713
00:35:30.895 --> 00:35:32.997
One boulder in particular

1714
00:35:32.997 --> 00:35:34.832
that Osiris-rex had to navigate

1715
00:35:34.832 --> 00:35:37.235
around was nicknamed Mount Doom

1716
00:35:37.235 --> 00:35:38.736
and was the size of a two

1717
00:35:38.736 --> 00:35:40.204
story building.

1718
00:35:40.204 --> 00:35:41.973
Bennu holds the Guinness World

1719
00:35:41.973 --> 00:35:42.657
Guinness World

1720
00:35:42.657 --> 00:35:44.125
record of the smallest object

1721
00:35:44.125 --> 00:35:46.110
to be orbited a spacecraft.

1722
00:35:46.110 --> 00:35:47.745
Have fun.

1723
00:35:47.829 --> 00:35:48.479
Now let's get an

1724
00:35:48.479 --> 00:35:49.347
update from Sophia,

1725
00:35:49.347 --> 00:35:50.064
who is standing on

1726
00:35:50.064 --> 00:35:50.998
the edge of the Ellipse.

1727
00:35:50.998 --> 00:35:54.752
Take it away, Sophia.

1728
00:35:54.836 --> 00:35:55.436
Okay.

1729
00:35:55.436 --> 00:35:56.854
Two of the helicopters

1730
00:35:56.854 --> 00:35:59.123
have already just departed,

1731
00:35:59.123 --> 00:36:00.424
so the team is already

1732
00:36:00.424 --> 00:36:02.076
in the recovery process,

1733
00:36:02.076 --> 00:36:03.027
or at least the beginning

1734
00:36:03.027 --> 00:36:03.995
phases of it.

1735
00:36:03.995 --> 00:36:04.762
But right now,

1736
00:36:04.762 --> 00:36:05.363
we are waiting

1737
00:36:05.363 --> 00:36:06.597
to hear precisely

1738
00:36:06.597 --> 00:36:07.415
where the capsule

1739
00:36:07.415 --> 00:36:08.282
is going to land

1740
00:36:08.282 --> 00:36:09.834
before the rest of the teams

1741
00:36:09.834 --> 00:36:11.886
head on over to that location.

1742
00:36:11.886 --> 00:36:12.937
Now, we are about

1743
00:36:12.937 --> 00:36:14.405
under 10 minutes away

1744
00:36:14.405 --> 00:36:15.239
from the capsule

1745
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:15.957
hitting the top

1746
00:36:15.957 --> 00:36:17.525
of our atmosphere,

1747
00:36:17.525 --> 00:36:19.443
and we are eagerly anticipating

1748
00:36:19.443 --> 00:36:20.645
this largest

1749
00:36:20.645 --> 00:36:21.395
sample

1750
00:36:21.395 --> 00:36:22.196
of ancient

1751
00:36:22.196 --> 00:36:23.848
solar system material

1752
00:36:23.848 --> 00:36:25.266
that we have received

1753
00:36:25.266 --> 00:36:26.517
since the last Apollo

1754
00:36:26.517 --> 00:36:28.803
mission in 1972.

1755
00:36:28.803 --> 00:36:31.088
So that is 51 years

1756
00:36:31.088 --> 00:36:33.457
since we've had such a pristine

1757
00:36:33.457 --> 00:36:34.675
and large

1758
00:36:34.675 --> 00:36:36.210
sample of ancient

1759
00:36:36.210 --> 00:36:37.945
solar system material.

1760
00:36:37.945 --> 00:36:38.913
It's a really big day

1761
00:36:38.913 --> 00:36:39.864
for science,

1762
00:36:39.864 --> 00:36:41.015
and we're just

1763
00:36:41.015 --> 00:36:41.732
in the beginning

1764
00:36:41.732 --> 00:36:43.317
phases of today.

1765
00:36:43.317 --> 00:36:44.902
But we are certainly excited

1766
00:36:44.902 --> 00:36:45.453
to hear

1767
00:36:45.453 --> 00:36:46.387
about what will happen

1768
00:36:46.387 --> 00:36:47.521
and see

1769
00:36:47.521 --> 00:36:48.689
those parachutes

1770
00:36:48.689 --> 00:36:49.740
finally descend

1771
00:36:49.740 --> 00:36:51.425
through our atmosphere.

1772
00:36:51.425 --> 00:36:52.143
So, yes,

1773
00:36:52.143 --> 00:36:53.377
we're certainly excited.

1774
00:36:53.377 --> 00:36:54.545
But this is just

1775
00:36:54.545 --> 00:36:55.746
one phase of this

1776
00:36:55.746 --> 00:36:57.481
amazing mission.

1777
00:36:57.481 --> 00:36:58.282
And to send it back

1778
00:36:58.282 --> 00:37:02.553
to you, Lauren,

1779
00:37:02.637 --> 00:37:02.970
see the

1780
00:37:02.970 --> 00:37:04.055
operational milestones

1781
00:37:04.055 --> 00:37:04.855
we're expecting

1782
00:37:04.855 --> 00:37:06.307
throughout the morning

1783
00:37:06.307 --> 00:37:07.408
as our C separation

1784
00:37:07.408 --> 00:37:08.426
already happened

1785
00:37:08.426 --> 00:37:09.360
and the capsule is now

1786
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:10.928
heading for its rendezvous

1787
00:37:10.928 --> 00:37:12.663
with Earth's atmosphere.

1788
00:37:12.663 --> 00:37:14.015
Jim, it always appears

1789
00:37:14.015 --> 00:37:15.299
like these operations

1790
00:37:15.299 --> 00:37:16.117
are simply inevitable.

1791
00:37:16.117 --> 00:37:16.350
You know,

1792
00:37:16.350 --> 00:37:18.035
we grabbed the sample,

1793
00:37:18.035 --> 00:37:19.253
we flew back to Earth.

1794
00:37:19.253 --> 00:37:20.855
We're headed in for landing.

1795
00:37:20.855 --> 00:37:21.422
But it's never

1796
00:37:21.422 --> 00:37:22.173
that simple, is it?

1797
00:37:22.173 --> 00:37:23.157
No, not at all.

1798
00:37:23.157 --> 00:37:24.275
And so we have

1799
00:37:24.275 --> 00:37:25.443
a lot of critical events

1800
00:37:25.443 --> 00:37:25.776
that take

1801
00:37:25.776 --> 00:37:27.128
masterful engineering.

1802
00:37:27.128 --> 00:37:27.728
We have to hit

1803
00:37:27.728 --> 00:37:28.829
the top of the atmosphere,

1804
00:37:28.829 --> 00:37:30.448
transition through a high

1805
00:37:30.448 --> 00:37:32.366
g, high heat environment,

1806
00:37:32.366 --> 00:37:34.051
go from 27,000 miles

1807
00:37:34.051 --> 00:37:35.786
an hour down to eventually 11

1808
00:37:35.786 --> 00:37:37.021
for that safe landing.

1809
00:37:37.021 --> 00:37:37.855
All these things

1810
00:37:37.855 --> 00:37:38.723
involve changes

1811
00:37:38.723 --> 00:37:39.657
in environments,

1812
00:37:39.657 --> 00:37:40.825
forces, things

1813
00:37:40.825 --> 00:37:41.943
that could disrupt our sample

1814
00:37:41.943 --> 00:37:42.476
and change them,

1815
00:37:42.476 --> 00:37:43.978
which we want to document.

1816
00:37:43.978 --> 00:37:45.396
And so we really want to

1817
00:37:45.396 --> 00:37:46.347
understand this

1818
00:37:46.347 --> 00:37:47.415
and finally bring it to rest

1819
00:37:47.415 --> 00:37:48.332
so we can then back it

1820
00:37:48.332 --> 00:37:49.383
encapsulated

1821
00:37:49.383 --> 00:37:50.818
so we can eventually get

1822
00:37:50.818 --> 00:37:51.269
the sample

1823
00:37:51.269 --> 00:37:52.470
into our clean room here.

1824
00:37:52.470 --> 00:37:53.604
So we're ready to

1825
00:37:53.604 --> 00:37:55.356
transfer tomorrow to Houston,

1826
00:37:55.356 --> 00:37:56.457
to the Johnson Space Center.

1827
00:37:56.457 --> 00:37:58.476
So this is a big process

1828
00:37:58.476 --> 00:37:59.427
well-rehearsed

1829
00:37:59.427 --> 00:38:00.995
by a masterful team.

1830
00:38:00.995 --> 00:38:01.495
Absolutely.

1831
00:38:01.495 --> 00:38:02.513
And contains

1832
00:38:02.513 --> 00:38:03.597
work from thousands

1833
00:38:03.597 --> 00:38:04.231
of individuals

1834
00:38:04.231 --> 00:38:05.850
who are making this happen.

1835
00:38:05.850 --> 00:38:06.367
All right.

1836
00:38:06.367 --> 00:38:07.118
So we know that you're

1837
00:38:07.118 --> 00:38:08.102
submitting questions

1838
00:38:08.102 --> 00:38:09.153
from all over.

1839
00:38:09.153 --> 00:38:11.305
Let's take a few more

1840
00:38:11.305 --> 00:38:12.623
social questions. All right.

1841
00:38:12.623 --> 00:38:13.524
What do we have

1842
00:38:13.524 --> 00:38:15.209
at dead sarin At five,

1843
00:38:15.209 --> 00:38:16.227
three, four, two,

1844
00:38:16.227 --> 00:38:18.145
four, six, one. Who?

1845
00:38:18.145 --> 00:38:19.981
What are the preliminary steps

1846
00:38:19.981 --> 00:38:22.133
to take to test a sample?

1847
00:38:22.133 --> 00:38:23.184
The preliminary steps.

1848
00:38:23.184 --> 00:38:24.302
So first thing we do

1849
00:38:24.302 --> 00:38:24.952
is, of course, bag

1850
00:38:24.952 --> 00:38:25.653
it here and get it

1851
00:38:25.653 --> 00:38:26.454
into the clean room

1852
00:38:26.454 --> 00:38:27.788
and get that sample,

1853
00:38:27.788 --> 00:38:29.523
that that canister, the sample

1854
00:38:29.523 --> 00:38:31.625
canister inside the sample

1855
00:38:31.625 --> 00:38:32.843
return capsule,

1856
00:38:32.843 --> 00:38:34.078
get it under nitrogen purge,

1857
00:38:34.078 --> 00:38:34.345
meaning

1858
00:38:34.345 --> 00:38:35.363
we fill in nitrogen gas.

1859
00:38:35.363 --> 00:38:36.664
So no Earth's atmosphere

1860
00:38:36.664 --> 00:38:38.015
and microbes get involved.

1861
00:38:38.015 --> 00:38:39.300
That'll happen today.

1862
00:38:39.300 --> 00:38:40.501
Period of few hours.

1863
00:38:40.501 --> 00:38:41.519
And then tomorrow,

1864
00:38:41.519 --> 00:38:42.803
we transfer to the Johnson

1865
00:38:42.803 --> 00:38:43.537
Space Center

1866
00:38:43.537 --> 00:38:44.338
in Houston, Texas,

1867
00:38:44.338 --> 00:38:45.723
where all the fun happens

1868
00:38:45.723 --> 00:38:46.807
at the Astro Materials

1869
00:38:46.807 --> 00:38:47.942
Correctional Facility,

1870
00:38:47.942 --> 00:38:48.776
where we've done moon

1871
00:38:48.776 --> 00:38:50.177
rocks and samples

1872
00:38:50.177 --> 00:38:51.962
of interplanetary dust

1873
00:38:51.962 --> 00:38:53.164
and lots of things.

1874
00:38:53.164 --> 00:38:53.964
Those colleagues

1875
00:38:53.964 --> 00:38:55.416
in a special clean room,

1876
00:38:55.416 --> 00:38:56.967
perfectly designed for this

1877
00:38:56.967 --> 00:38:57.818
mission,

1878
00:38:57.818 --> 00:38:59.553
will unpack those

1879
00:38:59.553 --> 00:39:01.706
precious samples in the sample,

1880
00:39:01.706 --> 00:39:02.556
in the small sample

1881
00:39:02.556 --> 00:39:04.508
canister, the small device

1882
00:39:04.508 --> 00:39:05.226
that was used

1883
00:39:05.226 --> 00:39:06.660
on the end of the tagsam.

1884
00:39:06.660 --> 00:39:07.228
And they will go

1885
00:39:07.228 --> 00:39:08.129
through a process

1886
00:39:08.129 --> 00:39:08.963
to get it checked out,

1887
00:39:08.963 --> 00:39:10.564
to do early reconnaissance

1888
00:39:10.564 --> 00:39:11.665
and to protect it

1889
00:39:11.665 --> 00:39:13.434
very carefully.

1890
00:39:13.434 --> 00:39:14.285
That is incredible.

1891
00:39:14.285 --> 00:39:15.119
And they built that whole

1892
00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:16.053
clean room. No nothing.

1893
00:39:16.053 --> 00:39:16.737
No other asteroid

1894
00:39:16.737 --> 00:39:17.838
samples before it.

1895
00:39:17.838 --> 00:39:18.656
This is the first one.

1896
00:39:18.656 --> 00:39:20.558
First ever, First ever.

1897
00:39:20.558 --> 00:39:21.842
As the SC approaches

1898
00:39:21.842 --> 00:39:23.244
the edge of Earth's atmosphere.

1899
00:39:23.244 --> 00:39:24.061
We are just

1900
00:39:24.061 --> 00:39:25.563
moments away from the world's

1901
00:39:25.563 --> 00:39:27.064
largest ever asteroid

1902
00:39:27.064 --> 00:39:28.416
sample return.

1903
00:39:28.416 --> 00:39:29.066
Jim, what are you feeling

1904
00:39:29.066 --> 00:39:29.734
right now?

1905
00:39:29.734 --> 00:39:31.585
I am literally tingling

1906
00:39:31.585 --> 00:39:32.970
all over with exhilaration.

1907
00:39:32.970 --> 00:39:34.405
This is a small step

1908
00:39:34.405 --> 00:39:35.156
for a capsule

1909
00:39:35.156 --> 00:39:36.807
and a giant leap for science.

1910
00:39:36.807 --> 00:39:37.775
It really is.

1911
00:39:37.775 --> 00:39:38.609
And if that's one thing

1912
00:39:38.609 --> 00:39:39.994
we can impart, that is it.

1913
00:39:39.994 --> 00:39:41.996
This is a huge, huge milestone,

1914
00:39:41.996 --> 00:39:43.864
a great achievement.

1915
00:39:43.864 --> 00:39:45.182
So this is it.

1916
00:39:45.182 --> 00:39:46.884
We are just 15 minutes away

1917
00:39:46.884 --> 00:39:48.302
from the Osiris-rex

1918
00:39:48.302 --> 00:39:49.553
sample return,

1919
00:39:49.553 --> 00:39:51.238
a journey of seven years

1920
00:39:51.238 --> 00:39:53.374
and nearly 4 billion miles.

1921
00:39:53.374 --> 00:39:54.508
The work of thousands

1922
00:39:54.508 --> 00:39:56.193
culminates in this moment.

1923
00:39:56.193 --> 00:39:56.827
Let's turn it

1924
00:39:56.827 --> 00:39:57.545
over to our mission.

1925
00:39:57.545 --> 00:39:58.746
Commentator James Reilly,

1926
00:39:58.746 --> 00:39:59.463
to take us through

1927
00:39:59.463 --> 00:40:00.564
the final moments.

1928
00:40:00.564 --> 00:40:02.066
James, we're all yours,

1929
00:40:02.066 --> 00:40:02.733
gentlemen.

1930
00:40:02.733 --> 00:40:03.834
Buckle up and get ready

1931
00:40:03.834 --> 00:40:04.985
for the ride of entry,

1932
00:40:04.985 --> 00:40:05.786
descent and landing.

1933
00:40:05.786 --> 00:40:06.987
This is 13 minutes

1934
00:40:06.987 --> 00:40:08.489
of crazy descent.

1935
00:40:08.489 --> 00:40:10.324
Punishing, crazy

1936
00:40:10.324 --> 00:40:11.942
deceleration of our spacecraft

1937
00:40:11.942 --> 00:40:13.861
starting at 27,000

1938
00:40:13.861 --> 00:40:14.528
miles per hour

1939
00:40:14.528 --> 00:40:15.029
when it enters

1940
00:40:15.029 --> 00:40:16.230
into Earth's atmosphere

1941
00:40:16.230 --> 00:40:16.714
and eventually

1942
00:40:16.714 --> 00:40:18.215
slowing to a leisurely

1943
00:40:18.215 --> 00:40:19.116
11 miles per hour

1944
00:40:19.116 --> 00:40:20.468
as it descends and lands

1945
00:40:20.468 --> 00:40:21.218
on the Utah Test

1946
00:40:21.218 --> 00:40:22.052
and Training Range.

1947
00:40:22.052 --> 00:40:23.287
Recovery operations

1948
00:40:23.287 --> 00:40:24.188
helicopters one

1949
00:40:24.188 --> 00:40:25.172
and two have arrived

1950
00:40:25.172 --> 00:40:26.824
at the landing location.

1951
00:40:26.824 --> 00:40:27.358
So good news.

1952
00:40:27.358 --> 00:40:28.926
Our helicopters are ready to go

1953
00:40:28.926 --> 00:40:29.493
and begin

1954
00:40:29.493 --> 00:40:30.544
this recovery operations

1955
00:40:30.544 --> 00:40:31.445
just as soon as we have

1956
00:40:31.445 --> 00:40:33.297
confirmation of touchdown here.

1957
00:40:33.297 --> 00:40:34.298
And as the sun begins

1958
00:40:34.298 --> 00:40:35.583
to rise in the West Coast,

1959
00:40:35.583 --> 00:40:36.517
the SIAC is

1960
00:40:36.517 --> 00:40:37.501
going to be streaking

1961
00:40:37.501 --> 00:40:38.886
across the atmosphere

1962
00:40:38.886 --> 00:40:39.637
above San

1963
00:40:39.637 --> 00:40:40.621
Francisco, California,

1964
00:40:40.621 --> 00:40:42.273
about 80 miles in altitude.

1965
00:40:42.273 --> 00:40:42.923
It's going to be coming in

1966
00:40:42.923 --> 00:40:45.326
hot over 5000 degrees

1967
00:40:45.326 --> 00:40:45.960
Fahrenheit, almost

1968
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:46.794
a couple seconds

1969
00:40:46.794 --> 00:40:48.179
after it hits that atmosphere,

1970
00:40:48.179 --> 00:40:49.763
that's about half as warm

1971
00:40:49.763 --> 00:40:51.265
as the surface of the sun.

1972
00:40:51.265 --> 00:40:52.433
To give you some context,

1973
00:40:52.433 --> 00:40:53.818
but don't worry,

1974
00:40:53.818 --> 00:40:55.019
our sample would be safe

1975
00:40:55.019 --> 00:40:56.103
and sound within.

1976
00:40:56.103 --> 00:40:57.204
We have a heat shield

1977
00:40:57.204 --> 00:40:58.856
which is made of a phenolic

1978
00:40:58.856 --> 00:41:00.207
impregnated carbon ablated.

1979
00:41:00.207 --> 00:41:01.208
It's a very fancy term

1980
00:41:01.208 --> 00:41:02.076
to describe

1981
00:41:02.076 --> 00:41:03.727
what's going on with this heat

1982
00:41:03.727 --> 00:41:04.078
shield.

1983
00:41:04.078 --> 00:41:04.778
It basically

1984
00:41:04.778 --> 00:41:06.147
Oblates away or burns away

1985
00:41:06.147 --> 00:41:07.148
any kind of heat flux

1986
00:41:07.148 --> 00:41:07.648
that develops

1987
00:41:07.648 --> 00:41:08.766
on that outer shell,

1988
00:41:08.766 --> 00:41:09.266
making sure

1989
00:41:09.266 --> 00:41:10.384
that our sample is safe

1990
00:41:10.384 --> 00:41:11.485
and cool within

1991
00:41:11.485 --> 00:41:12.419
similar technology

1992
00:41:12.419 --> 00:41:13.704
that we use with astronauts

1993
00:41:13.704 --> 00:41:15.089
coming back from the moon

1994
00:41:15.089 --> 00:41:16.407
or any kind of other landers

1995
00:41:16.407 --> 00:41:17.158
that we have

1996
00:41:17.158 --> 00:41:18.926
going into planets and moons.

1997
00:41:18.926 --> 00:41:19.260
So we're

1998
00:41:19.260 --> 00:41:20.010
just a couple of moments

1999
00:41:20.010 --> 00:41:21.395
away from this key moment.

2000
00:41:21.395 --> 00:41:21.795
It's going to be

2001
00:41:21.795 --> 00:41:22.413
a very exciting

2002
00:41:22.413 --> 00:41:24.098
next couple of 13 minutes here

2003
00:41:24.098 --> 00:41:24.698
and you'll hear

2004
00:41:24.698 --> 00:41:25.416
a couple of call outs

2005
00:41:25.416 --> 00:41:26.467
come in from just next door

2006
00:41:26.467 --> 00:41:26.917
in our mission

2007
00:41:26.917 --> 00:41:27.968
operations team

2008
00:41:27.968 --> 00:41:28.769
as they begin

2009
00:41:28.769 --> 00:41:30.187
to get us ready for this

2010
00:41:30.187 --> 00:41:30.955
key moment.

2011
00:41:30.955 --> 00:41:32.339
It's a journey of 3.8,

2012
00:41:32.339 --> 00:41:33.958
6 billion miles

2013
00:41:33.958 --> 00:41:34.825
getting reduced

2014
00:41:34.825 --> 00:41:37.328
to the scale of mere miles,

2015
00:41:37.328 --> 00:41:38.462
82 miles

2016
00:41:38.462 --> 00:41:39.697
above the surface of the earth

2017
00:41:39.697 --> 00:41:40.748
in San Francisco.

2018
00:41:40.748 --> 00:41:41.515
A couple of key events

2019
00:41:41.515 --> 00:41:42.082
are going to happen

2020
00:41:42.082 --> 00:41:42.716
as soon as we get

2021
00:41:42.716 --> 00:41:44.185
into the earth's atmosphere

2022
00:41:44.185 --> 00:41:44.852
very quickly

2023
00:41:44.852 --> 00:41:45.569
and we're going to deploy

2024
00:41:45.569 --> 00:41:46.537
our drogue parachute.

2025
00:41:46.537 --> 00:41:47.938
This is for stability,

2026
00:41:47.938 --> 00:41:48.989
stabilizes our descent,

2027
00:41:48.989 --> 00:41:49.507
and make sure

2028
00:41:49.507 --> 00:41:50.574
that we are continuing

2029
00:41:50.574 --> 00:41:52.109
to target that landing lives

2030
00:41:52.109 --> 00:41:53.527
that is here in the Utah Test

2031
00:41:53.527 --> 00:41:54.545
in training range.

2032
00:41:54.545 --> 00:41:56.881
It is a 36.5 by eight mile

2033
00:41:56.881 --> 00:41:58.682
landing ellipse that is here

2034
00:41:58.682 --> 00:41:59.400
marked out for that

2035
00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:00.217
recovery operation

2036
00:42:00.217 --> 00:42:00.818
you see on your screen

2037
00:42:00.818 --> 00:42:02.136
now, the mission ops team

2038
00:42:02.136 --> 00:42:02.436
eager

2039
00:42:02.436 --> 00:42:03.354
at the edge of their seats

2040
00:42:03.354 --> 00:42:03.787
for that

2041
00:42:03.787 --> 00:42:05.122
first call out of earth

2042
00:42:05.122 --> 00:42:06.607
atmospheric entry.

2043
00:42:06.607 --> 00:42:07.892
Very exciting moment coming up

2044
00:42:07.892 --> 00:42:11.195
in just a few seconds here.

2045
00:42:11.278 --> 00:42:12.396
We're about 20 seconds away.

2046
00:42:12.396 --> 00:42:12.930
You see the team

2047
00:42:12.930 --> 00:42:14.014
at Lockheed now

2048
00:42:14.014 --> 00:42:14.999
all standing

2049
00:42:14.999 --> 00:42:15.566
ready on the edge

2050
00:42:15.566 --> 00:42:16.467
of their seats.

2051
00:42:16.467 --> 00:42:17.284
This team, I'll remind

2052
00:42:17.284 --> 00:42:18.652
you, just a few hours ago,

2053
00:42:18.652 --> 00:42:19.436
gave that command

2054
00:42:19.436 --> 00:42:20.604
to release the ICRC

2055
00:42:20.604 --> 00:42:21.639
on this long journey.

2056
00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:22.373
It's been on its own

2057
00:42:22.373 --> 00:42:22.973
for 4 hours.

2058
00:42:22.973 --> 00:42:23.857
There's nothing we can do

2059
00:42:23.857 --> 00:42:24.475
at this point.

2060
00:42:24.475 --> 00:42:26.510
It's coming in rain or.

2061
00:42:26.510 --> 00:42:27.745
Milestone? Yes, sir.

2062
00:42:27.745 --> 00:42:28.862
She has entered

2063
00:42:28.862 --> 00:42:30.698
the Earth's atmosphere.

2064
00:42:30.698 --> 00:42:33.534
You tgr for of assets required.

2065
00:42:33.534 --> 00:42:34.351
And here we go.

2066
00:42:34.351 --> 00:42:36.036
Start your stopwatch right now

2067
00:42:36.036 --> 00:42:37.471
we are 13 minutes of entry,

2068
00:42:37.471 --> 00:42:38.339
descent and landing.

2069
00:42:38.339 --> 00:42:40.107
We have that expected milestone

2070
00:42:40.107 --> 00:42:40.591
of entering

2071
00:42:40.591 --> 00:42:42.443
into the earth's atmosphere.

2072
00:42:42.443 --> 00:42:43.527
We can see the team at launch

2073
00:42:43.527 --> 00:42:44.044
and we actually have

2074
00:42:44.044 --> 00:42:45.546
a visual now.

2075
00:42:45.546 --> 00:42:46.230
This is from

2076
00:42:46.230 --> 00:42:47.364
our infrared tracking camera

2077
00:42:47.364 --> 00:42:48.682
on the WB 57

2078
00:42:48.682 --> 00:42:50.634
or high altitude plane

2079
00:42:50.634 --> 00:42:52.286
at about 47,000 feet.

2080
00:42:52.286 --> 00:42:53.671
MSL means sea level

2081
00:42:53.671 --> 00:42:55.022
getting a great view of that

2082
00:42:55.022 --> 00:42:56.190
as sea heating up

2083
00:42:56.190 --> 00:42:56.724
as it enters

2084
00:42:56.724 --> 00:42:57.775
into Earth's atmosphere.

2085
00:42:57.775 --> 00:42:59.376
The punishing deceleration

2086
00:42:59.376 --> 00:43:00.094
that spacecraft

2087
00:43:00.094 --> 00:43:01.262
that SLC is experienced

2088
00:43:01.262 --> 00:43:02.012
right now

2089
00:43:02.012 --> 00:43:02.613
as it comes in

2090
00:43:02.613 --> 00:43:06.216
at about 27,650 miles an hour,

2091
00:43:06.216 --> 00:43:07.735
you can see it glowing brightly

2092
00:43:07.735 --> 00:43:09.637
in the sky.

2093
00:43:09.720 --> 00:43:10.321
In just a few

2094
00:43:10.321 --> 00:43:11.105
moments, we're

2095
00:43:11.105 --> 00:43:12.990
going to reach picketing

2096
00:43:12.990 --> 00:43:14.224
and peak deceleration.

2097
00:43:14.224 --> 00:43:15.726
That's at 32 G-forces

2098
00:43:15.726 --> 00:43:17.227
punishing G-force on a rest

2099
00:43:17.227 --> 00:43:18.812
or see a phenomenal view

2100
00:43:18.812 --> 00:43:20.097
of that streaking sources.

2101
00:43:20.097 --> 00:43:26.170
You coming in across the sky

2102
00:43:26.253 --> 00:43:26.754
at this point

2103
00:43:26.754 --> 00:43:27.688
we have entered in over

2104
00:43:27.688 --> 00:43:28.856
San Francisco, California,

2105
00:43:28.856 --> 00:43:30.474
and are very quickly

2106
00:43:30.474 --> 00:43:30.724
going to be

2107
00:43:30.724 --> 00:43:31.825
approaching the Utah test

2108
00:43:31.825 --> 00:43:32.493
and training range

2109
00:43:32.493 --> 00:43:33.027
just a little bit

2110
00:43:33.027 --> 00:43:36.397
further to the east.

2111
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:39.300
Entry was at E while still

2112
00:43:39.300 --> 00:43:39.900
because our C

2113
00:43:39.900 --> 00:43:42.036
is experiencing maximum medium

2114
00:43:42.036 --> 00:43:44.138
to maximum deceleration.

2115
00:43:44.138 --> 00:43:44.788
So you just heard right

2116
00:43:44.788 --> 00:43:45.472
there, we're experiencing

2117
00:43:45.472 --> 00:43:46.624
that 5000 degree

2118
00:43:46.624 --> 00:43:48.392
Fahrenheit, maximum heating

2119
00:43:48.392 --> 00:43:49.293
burning, scalding

2120
00:43:49.293 --> 00:43:50.461
hot on that heat shield

2121
00:43:50.461 --> 00:43:51.595
that is protecting our sample

2122
00:43:51.595 --> 00:43:52.563
within and

2123
00:43:52.563 --> 00:43:53.664
maximum deceleration.

2124
00:43:53.664 --> 00:43:55.265
That is at 32 G force,

2125
00:43:55.265 --> 00:43:56.367
punishing deceleration

2126
00:43:56.367 --> 00:43:57.234
from Earth's atmosphere.

2127
00:43:57.234 --> 00:43:58.469
The drag forces that

2128
00:43:58.469 --> 00:44:02.289
are acting on that as our C,

2129
00:44:02.373 --> 00:44:02.790
once again,

2130
00:44:02.790 --> 00:44:03.240
as I mentioned,

2131
00:44:03.240 --> 00:44:04.208
that sample is safe

2132
00:44:04.208 --> 00:44:04.708
and sound

2133
00:44:04.708 --> 00:44:05.392
within that

2134
00:44:05.392 --> 00:44:06.593
as our C, that sample return

2135
00:44:06.593 --> 00:44:08.162
capsule as it comes in

2136
00:44:08.162 --> 00:44:08.729
burning through

2137
00:44:08.729 --> 00:44:11.932
Earth's atmosphere,

2138
00:44:12.016 --> 00:44:13.734
you can see our high altitude

2139
00:44:13.734 --> 00:44:15.202
plane searching for that star.

2140
00:44:15.202 --> 00:44:15.836
So you can see it

2141
00:44:15.836 --> 00:44:18.088
faintly on your screen there.

2142
00:44:18.088 --> 00:44:18.806
Our next milestone

2143
00:44:18.806 --> 00:44:20.607
will be expecting that

2144
00:44:20.607 --> 00:44:22.142
drogue parachute deployment.

2145
00:44:22.142 --> 00:44:22.710
That will be at about

2146
00:44:22.710 --> 00:44:25.713
102.300 feet altitude.

2147
00:44:25.813 --> 00:44:26.764
And as I mentioned before,

2148
00:44:26.764 --> 00:44:28.832
that will stabilize our descent

2149
00:44:28.832 --> 00:44:29.433
and slow us

2150
00:44:29.433 --> 00:44:30.300
from hypersonic

2151
00:44:30.300 --> 00:44:31.418
to subsonic speeds

2152
00:44:31.418 --> 00:44:32.002
as we continue

2153
00:44:32.002 --> 00:44:33.203
to target

2154
00:44:33.203 --> 00:44:34.021
the Utah test

2155
00:44:34.021 --> 00:44:35.873
and training range

2156
00:44:35.873 --> 00:44:37.975
expected EDL milestone

2157
00:44:37.975 --> 00:44:39.326
as our C commands

2158
00:44:39.326 --> 00:44:41.161
drogue parachute deploy.

2159
00:44:41.161 --> 00:44:42.029
So we heard that commands

2160
00:44:42.029 --> 00:44:43.714
you deploy the drop parachute

2161
00:44:43.714 --> 00:44:44.314
waiting to see

2162
00:44:44.314 --> 00:44:45.382
that visual confirmation

2163
00:44:45.382 --> 00:44:50.504
but that is at 102,300 feet.

2164
00:44:50.587 --> 00:44:51.789
And a side note

2165
00:44:51.789 --> 00:44:53.273
at this time, 8:44 a.m.

2166
00:44:53.273 --> 00:44:53.724
Mountain Time,

2167
00:44:53.724 --> 00:44:55.075
the Osiris Apex

2168
00:44:55.075 --> 00:44:56.460
spacecraft is at its closest

2169
00:44:56.460 --> 00:44:58.045
approach to earth

2170
00:44:58.045 --> 00:44:59.463
that will be on to its extended

2171
00:44:59.463 --> 00:45:00.030
mission, visiting

2172
00:45:00.030 --> 00:45:00.631
the asteroid

2173
00:45:00.631 --> 00:45:02.216
Apophis in the year 2029,

2174
00:45:02.216 --> 00:45:03.384
continuing this

2175
00:45:03.384 --> 00:45:04.351
incredible mission

2176
00:45:04.351 --> 00:45:07.921
at another world.

2177
00:45:08.005 --> 00:45:09.206
In just a few moments,

2178
00:45:09.206 --> 00:45:10.591
we should enter into

2179
00:45:10.591 --> 00:45:11.909
special use airspace

2180
00:45:11.909 --> 00:45:13.477
at approximately 8:46 a.m..

2181
00:45:13.477 --> 00:45:14.428
That's going to be a ten miles

2182
00:45:14.428 --> 00:45:15.095
off the deck here

2183
00:45:15.095 --> 00:45:15.696
at Utah Test

2184
00:45:15.696 --> 00:45:21.702
and Training Range.

2185
00:45:21.785 --> 00:45:22.836
You can still see that

2186
00:45:22.836 --> 00:45:24.655
s RC on your screen

2187
00:45:24.655 --> 00:45:26.607
very faintly in the distance,

2188
00:45:26.607 --> 00:45:28.142
still quite warm.

2189
00:45:28.142 --> 00:45:28.776
That fireball

2190
00:45:28.776 --> 00:45:29.843
that literally

2191
00:45:29.843 --> 00:45:30.661
was a ball of plasma

2192
00:45:30.661 --> 00:45:31.445
just a few moments ago

2193
00:45:31.445 --> 00:45:32.062
when it first entered

2194
00:45:32.062 --> 00:45:37.935
into the Earth's atmosphere.

2195
00:45:38.018 --> 00:45:38.752
That s our

2196
00:45:38.752 --> 00:45:40.053
is nearly three feet

2197
00:45:40.053 --> 00:45:41.188
wide, 1.6 feet tall.

2198
00:45:41.188 --> 00:45:41.672
Two small

2199
00:45:41.672 --> 00:45:43.323
objects are quite a challenge

2200
00:45:43.323 --> 00:45:44.308
to track this as it comes.

2201
00:45:44.308 --> 00:45:52.382
Syrians to Earth's atmosphere.

2202
00:45:52.466 --> 00:45:53.317
In just a few moments, we

2203
00:45:53.317 --> 00:45:54.451
should be entering into special

2204
00:45:54.451 --> 00:45:58.238
as airspace.

2205
00:45:58.322 --> 00:45:58.856
This area was

2206
00:45:58.856 --> 00:45:59.706
specifically chosen

2207
00:45:59.706 --> 00:46:00.324
for this mission

2208
00:46:00.324 --> 00:46:01.558
is a wide open, vast

2209
00:46:01.558 --> 00:46:02.793
desert space,

2210
00:46:02.793 --> 00:46:04.077
relatively flat,

2211
00:46:04.077 --> 00:46:04.745
perfect to land

2212
00:46:04.745 --> 00:46:10.901
the sample today.

2213
00:46:10.984 --> 00:46:11.819
We did, as I mentioned,

2214
00:46:11.819 --> 00:46:13.504
have a couple

2215
00:46:13.504 --> 00:46:14.788
days of rain here

2216
00:46:14.788 --> 00:46:15.622
leading up to this event.

2217
00:46:15.622 --> 00:46:16.440
So the ground is a little bit

2218
00:46:16.440 --> 00:46:22.146
soft.

2219
00:46:22.229 --> 00:46:30.938
And Sierra CRC

2220
00:46:31.021 --> 00:46:33.273
streaking in

2221
00:46:33.273 --> 00:46:52.626
is from our high altitude camp.

2222
00:46:52.709 --> 00:46:53.460
Our next milestone,

2223
00:46:53.460 --> 00:46:54.278
we should be expecting

2224
00:46:54.278 --> 00:46:55.145
main parachute deployment

2225
00:46:55.145 --> 00:46:56.396
at around 8:49 a.m.

2226
00:46:56.396 --> 00:46:56.914
Mountain Time.

2227
00:46:56.914 --> 00:46:57.664
That will be at of around

2228
00:46:57.664 --> 00:47:02.135
5000 feet elevation.

2229
00:47:02.219 --> 00:47:03.504
We continue to track

2230
00:47:03.504 --> 00:47:04.388
with our high altitude

2231
00:47:04.388 --> 00:47:14.414
camera here.

2232
00:47:14.498 --> 00:47:14.948
As I mentioned,

2233
00:47:14.948 --> 00:47:15.382
that sample

2234
00:47:15.382 --> 00:47:17.584
is thermally isolated within

2235
00:47:17.584 --> 00:47:18.235
that s our C,

2236
00:47:18.235 --> 00:47:19.486
a very complex labyrinth

2237
00:47:19.486 --> 00:47:21.355
network of piping and tubing

2238
00:47:21.355 --> 00:47:22.022
leading into that

2239
00:47:22.022 --> 00:47:24.007
sample canister within

2240
00:47:24.007 --> 00:47:25.142
that just a few years ago

2241
00:47:25.142 --> 00:47:26.393
was on the other side

2242
00:47:26.393 --> 00:47:27.127
of the solar system

2243
00:47:27.127 --> 00:47:27.845
from a sampling.

2244
00:47:27.845 --> 00:47:32.416
An asteroid bennu.

2245
00:47:32.482 --> 00:47:33.517
The team has incredible

2246
00:47:33.517 --> 00:47:33.984
precision

2247
00:47:33.984 --> 00:47:34.718
on this mission as well.

2248
00:47:34.718 --> 00:47:35.435
Just a few days ago,

2249
00:47:35.435 --> 00:47:36.570
on the 17th of September,

2250
00:47:36.570 --> 00:47:38.605
they did their final trajectory

2251
00:47:38.605 --> 00:47:41.491
correction maneuver team 12.

2252
00:47:41.491 --> 00:47:43.126
This corrected our loss

2253
00:47:43.126 --> 00:47:43.894
about three millimeters

2254
00:47:43.894 --> 00:47:51.835
per second.

2255
00:47:51.919 --> 00:47:54.004
We see video, Miles.

2256
00:47:54.004 --> 00:47:56.790
So we have confirmed

2257
00:47:56.790 --> 00:47:57.925
performance. Wow.

2258
00:47:57.925 --> 00:48:00.244
And after an exhilarating

2259
00:48:00.244 --> 00:48:01.078
streak across

2260
00:48:01.078 --> 00:48:02.346
Earth's atmosphere,

2261
00:48:02.346 --> 00:48:03.714
we have parachute deployment.

2262
00:48:03.714 --> 00:48:04.765
You can see

2263
00:48:04.765 --> 00:48:05.699
just a sigh of relief

2264
00:48:05.699 --> 00:48:06.083
from the team.

2265
00:48:06.083 --> 00:48:07.284
I can hear some applause here.

2266
00:48:07.284 --> 00:48:08.735
There is that orange

2267
00:48:08.735 --> 00:48:09.903
creamsicle colored parachute.

2268
00:48:09.903 --> 00:48:10.621
Just a delight,

2269
00:48:10.621 --> 00:48:11.305
a sweet delight

2270
00:48:11.305 --> 00:48:12.906
to see in our skies

2271
00:48:12.906 --> 00:48:13.674
here over the Utah

2272
00:48:13.674 --> 00:48:15.392
testing training range.

2273
00:48:15.392 --> 00:48:16.226
A phenomenal view.

2274
00:48:16.226 --> 00:48:17.461
Just wonderful

2275
00:48:17.461 --> 00:48:18.362
to see that deployment.

2276
00:48:18.362 --> 00:48:18.996
That is at around

2277
00:48:18.996 --> 00:48:20.731
5000 feet elevation

2278
00:48:20.731 --> 00:48:21.665
above the Utah test

2279
00:48:21.665 --> 00:48:22.266
and training range.

2280
00:48:22.266 --> 00:48:23.100
And now this is like

2281
00:48:23.100 --> 00:48:24.151
a marathon runner

2282
00:48:24.151 --> 00:48:25.502
savoring that last lap

2283
00:48:25.502 --> 00:48:27.087
here as we approach the finish

2284
00:48:27.087 --> 00:48:27.955
that landing in the

2285
00:48:27.955 --> 00:48:32.793
Utah test and training range.

2286
00:48:32.876 --> 00:48:35.245
Wonderful to see that

2287
00:48:35.245 --> 00:48:35.996
we continue to track

2288
00:48:35.996 --> 00:48:37.014
this is with our high altitude

2289
00:48:37.014 --> 00:48:39.449
camera still that WB 57

2290
00:48:39.449 --> 00:48:40.083
and we should have

2291
00:48:40.083 --> 00:48:41.018
a great view from here

2292
00:48:41.018 --> 00:48:41.335
on the ground

2293
00:48:41.335 --> 00:48:41.935
we've got a variety

2294
00:48:41.935 --> 00:48:42.903
of different tracking assets

2295
00:48:42.903 --> 00:48:44.454
and you saw Sofia out

2296
00:48:44.454 --> 00:48:45.455
at the edge of that ellipse

2297
00:48:45.455 --> 00:48:47.124
watching from Wigg Mountain.

2298
00:48:47.124 --> 00:48:48.358
The team there

2299
00:48:48.358 --> 00:48:49.076
could potentially have

2300
00:48:49.076 --> 00:48:50.077
a wonderful view

2301
00:48:50.077 --> 00:48:53.063
momentarily as well

2302
00:48:53.063 --> 00:48:53.513
will continue

2303
00:48:53.513 --> 00:48:55.315
to descend Our next altitude

2304
00:48:55.315 --> 00:48:56.316
descent will be

2305
00:48:56.316 --> 00:49:00.554
at about 4000 feet

2306
00:49:00.637 --> 00:49:01.738
just a few minutes away

2307
00:49:01.738 --> 00:49:03.724
from getting that sample

2308
00:49:03.724 --> 00:49:04.474
from the other side

2309
00:49:04.474 --> 00:49:06.059
of the solar system

2310
00:49:06.059 --> 00:49:06.627
and the surface

2311
00:49:06.627 --> 00:49:07.294
of asteroid Bennu

2312
00:49:07.294 --> 00:49:09.146
a sample site, Nightingale

2313
00:49:09.146 --> 00:49:10.013
to the rugged terrain

2314
00:49:10.013 --> 00:49:10.747
of the Utah Test

2315
00:49:10.747 --> 00:49:14.868
and Training Range.

2316
00:49:14.935 --> 00:49:15.535
It looks like

2317
00:49:15.535 --> 00:49:17.037
winds are relatively low.

2318
00:49:17.037 --> 00:49:18.005
Not a lot of rocking back

2319
00:49:18.005 --> 00:49:19.056
and forth as parachutes

2320
00:49:19.056 --> 00:49:20.457
seem to be perfectly smooth.

2321
00:49:20.457 --> 00:49:20.941
Coming down.

2322
00:49:20.941 --> 00:49:23.026
The parachute there

2323
00:49:23.093 --> 00:49:24.778
continuing to descend.

2324
00:49:24.778 --> 00:49:25.329
The slight

2325
00:49:25.329 --> 00:49:26.196
little bit of tilt back

2326
00:49:26.196 --> 00:49:26.964
and forth of our

2327
00:49:26.964 --> 00:49:27.297
are seen

2328
00:49:27.297 --> 00:49:29.166
as it comes to its arresting

2329
00:49:29.166 --> 00:49:30.534
velocity of 11 miles per hour

2330
00:49:30.534 --> 00:49:37.324
as it makes that final descent,

2331
00:49:37.407 --> 00:49:38.375
that parachute deployment

2332
00:49:38.375 --> 00:49:39.876
was given internally

2333
00:49:39.876 --> 00:49:40.560
by the spacecraft.

2334
00:49:40.560 --> 00:49:41.278
All of what you're seeing

2335
00:49:41.278 --> 00:49:42.663
now is autonomous on board.

2336
00:49:42.663 --> 00:49:47.834
That s RC.

2337
00:49:47.918 --> 00:49:48.301
And once

2338
00:49:48.301 --> 00:49:49.386
that successfully lands,

2339
00:49:49.386 --> 00:49:50.787
the teams will begin

2340
00:49:50.787 --> 00:49:52.289
the next crucial phase

2341
00:49:52.289 --> 00:49:52.923
of this mission,

2342
00:49:52.923 --> 00:49:56.226
the sample recovery operations.

2343
00:49:56.309 --> 00:49:56.994
They've been rehearsing

2344
00:49:56.994 --> 00:49:57.544
for this moment

2345
00:49:57.544 --> 00:49:59.212
for months, literally years,

2346
00:49:59.212 --> 00:50:00.213
really leading up

2347
00:50:00.213 --> 00:50:01.114
to this key moment

2348
00:50:01.114 --> 00:50:01.915
and are ready to begin

2349
00:50:01.915 --> 00:50:02.549
this operations

2350
00:50:02.549 --> 00:50:03.684
to get that RC

2351
00:50:03.684 --> 00:50:04.418
into our portable

2352
00:50:04.418 --> 00:50:05.402
clean room here

2353
00:50:05.402 --> 00:50:05.936
and extract

2354
00:50:05.936 --> 00:50:11.708
that sample canister within,

2355
00:50:11.792 --> 00:50:12.509
according to my watch

2356
00:50:12.509 --> 00:50:13.944
for about 5 minutes away

2357
00:50:13.944 --> 00:50:19.082
from landing with our s RC.

2358
00:50:19.166 --> 00:50:20.033
And as we heard a few moments

2359
00:50:20.033 --> 00:50:20.701
ago, helicopters

2360
00:50:20.701 --> 00:50:21.968
one and two are already staged

2361
00:50:21.968 --> 00:50:22.386
and ready

2362
00:50:22.386 --> 00:50:22.769
to begin

2363
00:50:22.769 --> 00:50:23.854
those recovery operations

2364
00:50:23.854 --> 00:50:24.654
just as soon as we have

2365
00:50:24.654 --> 00:50:29.793
confirmation of touchdown.

2366
00:50:29.876 --> 00:50:30.894
This is a variable clock,

2367
00:50:30.894 --> 00:50:32.245
so this could be

2368
00:50:32.245 --> 00:50:32.963
a little bit faster,

2369
00:50:32.963 --> 00:50:33.563
a little bit slower

2370
00:50:33.563 --> 00:50:34.314
as we get closer

2371
00:50:34.314 --> 00:50:35.465
in this wind speed.

2372
00:50:35.465 --> 00:50:36.683
Here is a variable

2373
00:50:36.683 --> 00:50:38.335
that is quite hard to predict,

2374
00:50:38.335 --> 00:50:38.969
especially once

2375
00:50:38.969 --> 00:50:39.336
you're high up

2376
00:50:39.336 --> 00:50:40.704
in the atmosphere.

2377
00:50:40.704 --> 00:50:41.405
We did release

2378
00:50:41.405 --> 00:50:42.272
a weather balloon earlier

2379
00:50:42.272 --> 00:50:43.373
on this afternoon, earlier

2380
00:50:43.373 --> 00:50:44.725
on this morning, rather,

2381
00:50:44.725 --> 00:50:45.959
to get a profile

2382
00:50:45.959 --> 00:50:47.778
of our atmosphere conditions.

2383
00:50:47.778 --> 00:50:48.145
The team

2384
00:50:48.145 --> 00:50:49.863
puts those into various models

2385
00:50:49.863 --> 00:50:50.547
as they prepare

2386
00:50:50.547 --> 00:50:51.998
for this key moment.

2387
00:50:51.998 --> 00:50:52.582
But once again,

2388
00:50:52.582 --> 00:50:53.316
they are a little bit hard

2389
00:50:53.316 --> 00:50:53.767
to predict,

2390
00:50:53.767 --> 00:50:54.684
a little bit variability.

2391
00:50:54.684 --> 00:50:56.670
So we may

2392
00:50:56.670 --> 00:50:57.354
kind of bounce around

2393
00:50:57.354 --> 00:50:58.138
a little bit on that.

2394
00:50:58.138 --> 00:50:59.456
Predicted surface

2395
00:50:59.456 --> 00:51:00.540
Rex sample return

2396
00:51:00.540 --> 00:51:10.217
capsule touchdown time,

2397
00:51:10.300 --> 00:51:11.768
but ground really closing in

2398
00:51:11.768 --> 00:51:12.119
on that.

2399
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:13.487
That's a milestone.

2400
00:51:13.487 --> 00:51:15.338
Either one has a visual.

2401
00:51:15.338 --> 00:51:18.525
Oh yes I see some the chute

2402
00:51:18.608 --> 00:51:19.860
that is phenomenal.

2403
00:51:19.860 --> 00:51:20.727
Let's see that view here

2404
00:51:20.727 --> 00:51:22.379
from that first helicopter.

2405
00:51:22.379 --> 00:51:22.979
They've got

2406
00:51:22.979 --> 00:51:24.481
visual on the sample return

2407
00:51:24.481 --> 00:51:25.499
capsule under parachute,

2408
00:51:25.499 --> 00:51:26.666
that orange creamsicle

2409
00:51:26.666 --> 00:51:27.300
colored parachute

2410
00:51:27.300 --> 00:51:28.318
really bright.

2411
00:51:28.318 --> 00:51:29.186
Then the morning light

2412
00:51:29.186 --> 00:51:29.903
over the Utah test

2413
00:51:29.903 --> 00:51:31.772
and training range.

2414
00:51:31.772 --> 00:51:33.774
A great view of the SIRC

2415
00:51:33.774 --> 00:51:34.624
we can have now

2416
00:51:34.624 --> 00:51:36.476
from our helicopter

2417
00:51:36.476 --> 00:51:37.444
as it continues

2418
00:51:37.444 --> 00:51:38.528
to make its final descent

2419
00:51:38.528 --> 00:51:41.364
to the terrain below.

2420
00:51:41.364 --> 00:51:41.915
And once again,

2421
00:51:41.915 --> 00:51:42.816
just setting the context

2422
00:51:42.816 --> 00:51:43.049
for this.

2423
00:51:43.049 --> 00:51:43.733
When we first hit

2424
00:51:43.733 --> 00:51:44.584
the top of the atmosphere,

2425
00:51:44.584 --> 00:51:47.254
we were at 27,650

2426
00:51:47.254 --> 00:51:47.854
miles per hour.

2427
00:51:47.854 --> 00:51:48.955
We are now

2428
00:51:48.955 --> 00:51:50.724
leisurely decelerating

2429
00:51:50.724 --> 00:51:52.826
under our orange parachute

2430
00:51:52.826 --> 00:51:58.115
to 11 miles per hour.

2431
00:51:58.198 --> 00:51:58.949
Incredible amount

2432
00:51:58.949 --> 00:51:59.633
of deceleration

2433
00:51:59.633 --> 00:52:01.084
there as Earth's atmosphere

2434
00:52:01.084 --> 00:52:01.735
really helped us out

2435
00:52:01.735 --> 00:52:02.586
quite a bit,

2436
00:52:02.586 --> 00:52:03.003
getting that

2437
00:52:03.003 --> 00:52:04.905
initial deceleration,

2438
00:52:04.988 --> 00:52:05.906
our drogue parachute

2439
00:52:05.906 --> 00:52:06.807
initially stabilizing

2440
00:52:06.807 --> 00:52:07.324
our descent,

2441
00:52:07.324 --> 00:52:08.708
and then ultimately

2442
00:52:08.708 --> 00:52:10.076
that main parachute

2443
00:52:10.076 --> 00:52:17.200
bringing us home.

2444
00:52:17.284 --> 00:52:18.068
You can see right

2445
00:52:18.068 --> 00:52:18.451
in the center

2446
00:52:18.451 --> 00:52:19.469
of that crosshair,

2447
00:52:19.469 --> 00:52:20.670
that is the parachute

2448
00:52:20.670 --> 00:52:29.896
with the SRP dangling beneath

2449
00:52:29.963 --> 00:52:33.233
the team on the

2450
00:52:33.316 --> 00:52:36.319
the team member WB 57 to

2451
00:52:36.536 --> 00:52:39.539
touchdown I repeat

2452
00:52:39.656 --> 00:52:40.173
that first

2453
00:52:40.173 --> 00:52:41.274
he has touchdown

2454
00:52:41.274 --> 00:52:42.959
and touchdown of the service

2455
00:52:42.959 --> 00:52:44.461
Rex sample return capsule

2456
00:52:44.461 --> 00:52:46.146
a journey of a billion miles

2457
00:52:46.146 --> 00:52:46.763
to asteroid

2458
00:52:46.763 --> 00:52:47.814
BENNU and back

2459
00:52:47.814 --> 00:52:49.649
has come to an end

2460
00:52:49.649 --> 00:52:50.617
marking America's

2461
00:52:50.617 --> 00:52:51.751
first sample return

2462
00:52:51.751 --> 00:52:52.686
mission of its kind

2463
00:52:52.686 --> 00:52:54.387
and opening a time capsule

2464
00:52:54.387 --> 00:52:57.858
to our ancient solar system.

2465
00:52:57.924 --> 00:52:59.826
Unofficial touchdown time

2466
00:52:59.826 --> 00:53:01.444
8:52 a.m.

2467
00:53:01.444 --> 00:53:03.997
mountain yes.

2468
00:53:03.997 --> 00:53:04.798
And the team can now

2469
00:53:04.798 --> 00:53:05.782
breathe an immense

2470
00:53:05.782 --> 00:53:06.816
sigh of relief.

2471
00:53:06.816 --> 00:53:08.034
We now have the sample return

2472
00:53:08.034 --> 00:53:09.486
capsule, the CRC

2473
00:53:09.486 --> 00:53:10.437
containing pieces

2474
00:53:10.437 --> 00:53:11.288
of the asteroid Bennu

2475
00:53:11.288 --> 00:53:12.305
see the reaction there?

2476
00:53:12.305 --> 00:53:13.206
Just moments ago

2477
00:53:13.206 --> 00:53:14.074
as they got that sample

2478
00:53:14.074 --> 00:53:21.531
back on the ground.

2479
00:53:21.615 --> 00:53:21.898
This is

2480
00:53:21.898 --> 00:53:22.465
the team at

2481
00:53:22.465 --> 00:53:23.700
Lockheed celebrating that

2482
00:53:23.700 --> 00:53:25.018
momentous achievement

2483
00:53:25.018 --> 00:53:26.219
of getting that sample

2484
00:53:26.219 --> 00:53:27.204
from the other

2485
00:53:27.204 --> 00:53:28.321
side of the solar system,

2486
00:53:28.321 --> 00:53:29.522
an asteroid bennu

2487
00:53:29.522 --> 00:53:30.323
When we took that sample,

2488
00:53:30.323 --> 00:53:30.774
we were over

2489
00:53:30.774 --> 00:53:32.525
200 million miles away from us

2490
00:53:32.525 --> 00:53:33.593
here on Earth.

2491
00:53:33.593 --> 00:53:35.278
The long journey back,

2492
00:53:35.278 --> 00:53:36.963
1.2 billion miles from Asteroid

2493
00:53:36.963 --> 00:53:38.198
BENNU back to here with that

2494
00:53:38.198 --> 00:53:39.065
sample

2495
00:53:39.065 --> 00:53:40.083
has just come

2496
00:53:40.083 --> 00:53:42.903
to a dramatic close

2497
00:53:42.903 --> 00:53:43.687
and a little bit

2498
00:53:43.687 --> 00:53:44.221
ahead of schedule

2499
00:53:44.221 --> 00:53:46.256
to the saucy landing,

2500
00:53:46.256 --> 00:53:47.190
about 3 minutes ahead of

2501
00:53:47.190 --> 00:53:47.641
when we had

2502
00:53:47.641 --> 00:53:51.678
originally predicted

2503
00:53:51.745 --> 00:53:52.862
it was in a rush to get back

2504
00:53:52.862 --> 00:53:53.513
here.

2505
00:53:53.513 --> 00:53:54.547
Carrying

2506
00:53:54.547 --> 00:53:55.232
an amazing amount

2507
00:53:55.232 --> 00:53:56.182
of scientific information

2508
00:53:56.182 --> 00:53:57.083
within

2509
00:53:57.083 --> 00:53:58.718
the team is eager to crack

2510
00:53:58.718 --> 00:53:59.603
that a saucy open, get

2511
00:53:59.603 --> 00:54:01.021
the sample canister within

2512
00:54:01.021 --> 00:54:02.422
and begin the process

2513
00:54:02.422 --> 00:54:03.356
of understanding

2514
00:54:03.356 --> 00:54:05.125
the origins of our solar system

2515
00:54:05.125 --> 00:54:06.209
and potentially

2516
00:54:06.209 --> 00:54:15.936
the origins of life.

2517
00:54:16.019 --> 00:54:16.469
We're not in the

2518
00:54:16.469 --> 00:54:17.187
clear just yet.

2519
00:54:17.187 --> 00:54:17.554
A key

2520
00:54:17.554 --> 00:54:18.188
piece of the mission

2521
00:54:18.188 --> 00:54:19.022
is about to get underway.

2522
00:54:19.022 --> 00:54:20.106
This is the recovery

2523
00:54:20.106 --> 00:54:20.974
operation phase.

2524
00:54:20.974 --> 00:54:21.925
Once the team

2525
00:54:21.925 --> 00:54:23.126
has officially confirmed

2526
00:54:23.126 --> 00:54:25.028
the exact touchdown location,

2527
00:54:25.028 --> 00:54:25.679
they'll be flying on

2528
00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:27.564
in four separate helicopters

2529
00:54:27.564 --> 00:54:28.982
and operate much like a Formula

2530
00:54:28.982 --> 00:54:29.516
One pit crew,

2531
00:54:29.516 --> 00:54:29.883
if you will,

2532
00:54:29.883 --> 00:54:31.201
to recover the SNC,

2533
00:54:31.201 --> 00:54:32.402
take environmental samples

2534
00:54:32.402 --> 00:54:33.186
at the landing zone.

2535
00:54:33.186 --> 00:54:34.254
The LC,

2536
00:54:34.254 --> 00:54:35.855
everyone has a role to play.

2537
00:54:35.855 --> 00:54:36.089
It's going

2538
00:54:36.089 --> 00:54:37.173
be simultaneous action

2539
00:54:37.173 --> 00:54:37.590
as they get

2540
00:54:37.590 --> 00:54:38.825
that SLC recovered

2541
00:54:38.825 --> 00:54:39.209
and begin

2542
00:54:39.209 --> 00:54:40.226
to do an environmental

2543
00:54:40.226 --> 00:54:41.428
safety sweep,

2544
00:54:41.428 --> 00:54:42.178
collecting samples

2545
00:54:42.178 --> 00:54:48.018
along the way.

2546
00:54:48.084 --> 00:54:49.052
You see our mission ops team

2547
00:54:49.052 --> 00:54:58.928
just next door.

2548
00:54:59.012 --> 00:54:59.796
I once again remind you

2549
00:54:59.796 --> 00:55:00.297
that the

2550
00:55:00.297 --> 00:55:00.997
sample canister

2551
00:55:00.997 --> 00:55:01.982
itself is not actually going

2552
00:55:01.982 --> 00:55:03.984
to be opened here at Dugway.

2553
00:55:03.984 --> 00:55:05.101
The next phase of the operation

2554
00:55:05.101 --> 00:55:05.518
is simply

2555
00:55:05.518 --> 00:55:06.720
to get that RC

2556
00:55:06.720 --> 00:55:07.887
into the portable clean room

2557
00:55:07.887 --> 00:55:08.822
that has been specifically

2558
00:55:08.822 --> 00:55:09.539
set up

2559
00:55:09.539 --> 00:55:12.042
for this recovery operation.

2560
00:55:12.125 --> 00:55:12.892
The team will then

2561
00:55:12.892 --> 00:55:14.577
remove the heat shield

2562
00:55:14.577 --> 00:55:16.079
protecting the ICRC

2563
00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:17.247
and its precious cargo

2564
00:55:17.247 --> 00:55:19.049
within the entire descent

2565
00:55:19.049 --> 00:55:19.649
through the entry,

2566
00:55:19.649 --> 00:55:20.817
descent and landing.

2567
00:55:20.817 --> 00:55:22.469
Remove the back shell

2568
00:55:22.469 --> 00:55:23.436
and then extract

2569
00:55:23.436 --> 00:55:24.571
the sample canister

2570
00:55:24.571 --> 00:55:26.222
within the Tagsam

2571
00:55:26.222 --> 00:55:27.424
just a few years ago

2572
00:55:27.424 --> 00:55:28.525
collected pieces

2573
00:55:28.525 --> 00:55:31.444
from the asteroid Bennu.

2574
00:55:31.444 --> 00:55:31.778
Today,

2575
00:55:31.778 --> 00:55:32.812
the goal is to get the sample

2576
00:55:32.812 --> 00:55:34.497
chemistry operations.

2577
00:55:34.497 --> 00:55:36.366
Helicopters three and four

2578
00:55:36.366 --> 00:55:37.467
are leaving

2579
00:55:37.467 --> 00:55:39.185
for the landing and that's it.

2580
00:55:39.185 --> 00:55:39.836
See some big smiles

2581
00:55:39.836 --> 00:55:40.503
from the team there.

2582
00:55:40.503 --> 00:55:40.954
They are getting

2583
00:55:40.954 --> 00:55:42.005
those helicopters out

2584
00:55:42.005 --> 00:55:43.056
to the landing ellipse

2585
00:55:43.056 --> 00:55:43.740
now to begin

2586
00:55:43.740 --> 00:55:46.076
those recovery operations.

2587
00:55:46.076 --> 00:55:47.277
The first person to approach

2588
00:55:47.277 --> 00:55:49.829
the SIRC is Stu Wiley,

2589
00:55:49.829 --> 00:55:50.280
our on scene.

2590
00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:50.814
Commander, you

2591
00:55:50.814 --> 00:55:51.598
the helicopter,

2592
00:55:51.598 --> 00:55:52.682
the last of them

2593
00:55:52.682 --> 00:55:53.550
taking off

2594
00:55:53.550 --> 00:55:54.451
from the big mountain

2595
00:55:54.451 --> 00:55:55.535
just at the edge

2596
00:55:55.535 --> 00:55:57.670
of that landing ellipse.

2597
00:55:57.754 --> 00:55:58.388
These helicopters

2598
00:55:58.388 --> 00:55:58.888
will have a

2599
00:55:58.888 --> 00:55:59.305
trip out

2600
00:55:59.305 --> 00:56:00.423
to find that exact

2601
00:56:00.423 --> 00:56:02.826
touchdown location of the CRC

2602
00:56:02.826 --> 00:56:03.176
and begin

2603
00:56:03.176 --> 00:56:04.077
this recovery operation.

2604
00:56:04.077 --> 00:56:05.161
Stu, while they are on scene,

2605
00:56:05.161 --> 00:56:05.729
Commander will be

2606
00:56:05.729 --> 00:56:07.080
the first person

2607
00:56:07.080 --> 00:56:09.332
to approach that SIRC.

2608
00:56:09.332 --> 00:56:10.083
He'll do an environmental

2609
00:56:10.083 --> 00:56:10.617
safety sweep,

2610
00:56:10.617 --> 00:56:11.101
checking for

2611
00:56:11.101 --> 00:56:12.919
unexploded ordinances.

2612
00:56:12.919 --> 00:56:13.470
As he mentioned

2613
00:56:13.470 --> 00:56:14.337
in his interview earlier

2614
00:56:14.337 --> 00:56:14.888
with Sophia,

2615
00:56:14.888 --> 00:56:15.922
he understands this range.

2616
00:56:15.922 --> 00:56:16.439
She's worked here

2617
00:56:16.439 --> 00:56:17.490
for a number of years.

2618
00:56:17.490 --> 00:56:18.541
He will brief the team

2619
00:56:18.541 --> 00:56:20.093
on any possible dangers

2620
00:56:20.093 --> 00:56:21.394
that would be present

2621
00:56:21.394 --> 00:56:22.078
presented to them

2622
00:56:22.078 --> 00:56:22.495
as they begin

2623
00:56:22.495 --> 00:56:25.148
their recovery operations.

2624
00:56:25.148 --> 00:56:25.648
And then the team

2625
00:56:25.648 --> 00:56:26.332
member from Lockheed

2626
00:56:26.332 --> 00:56:27.751
Martin will begin to take gas

2627
00:56:27.751 --> 00:56:28.585
and thermal readings

2628
00:56:28.585 --> 00:56:30.503
once the area is safe of that

2629
00:56:30.503 --> 00:56:31.738
as or see

2630
00:56:31.738 --> 00:56:32.705
to determine whether or not

2631
00:56:32.705 --> 00:56:33.473
it is at safe

2632
00:56:33.473 --> 00:56:34.407
operational levels

2633
00:56:34.407 --> 00:56:35.125
for the rest of the team

2634
00:56:35.125 --> 00:56:35.759
to begin the

2635
00:56:35.759 --> 00:56:38.027
recovery operations.

2636
00:56:38.094 --> 00:56:38.945
As I mentioned, this is going

2637
00:56:38.945 --> 00:56:39.963
to be simultaneous action

2638
00:56:39.963 --> 00:56:41.064
the team has prepared.

2639
00:56:41.064 --> 00:56:41.614
They're all going to be

2640
00:56:41.614 --> 00:56:42.682
wearing these bright

2641
00:56:42.682 --> 00:56:43.650
white movie

2642
00:56:43.650 --> 00:56:44.984
shirts, simple recovery shirts.

2643
00:56:44.984 --> 00:56:45.835
You'll see them

2644
00:56:45.835 --> 00:56:47.904
walking out to that simple

2645
00:56:47.904 --> 00:56:48.805
in just a few moments.

2646
00:56:48.805 --> 00:56:49.622
And once those helicopters

2647
00:56:49.622 --> 00:56:51.391
land,

2648
00:56:51.391 --> 00:56:52.325
a great view once again

2649
00:56:52.325 --> 00:56:53.243
from our high altitude plane,

2650
00:56:53.243 --> 00:56:54.778
you can see the parachute there

2651
00:56:54.778 --> 00:56:59.883
next to our SIRC.

2652
00:56:59.966 --> 00:57:01.234
There is a possibility

2653
00:57:01.234 --> 00:57:02.368
that there could be unexploded

2654
00:57:02.368 --> 00:57:04.471
ordinances from that parachute.

2655
00:57:04.471 --> 00:57:05.672
There is a mortar inside

2656
00:57:05.672 --> 00:57:06.806
that is to fire,

2657
00:57:06.806 --> 00:57:08.124
to disconnect the parachute

2658
00:57:08.124 --> 00:57:10.977
from the main SIRC

2659
00:57:10.977 --> 00:57:11.428
to help it

2660
00:57:11.428 --> 00:57:14.948
come to a final rest.

2661
00:57:15.031 --> 00:57:15.715
It's a bit challenging

2662
00:57:15.715 --> 00:57:16.766
to see from this perspective,

2663
00:57:16.766 --> 00:57:17.317
but there could be

2664
00:57:17.317 --> 00:57:18.234
some potential role

2665
00:57:18.234 --> 00:57:19.652
marks or skid marks

2666
00:57:19.652 --> 00:57:20.487
as that as our seat

2667
00:57:20.487 --> 00:57:21.488
came to a rest on the

2668
00:57:21.488 --> 00:57:23.857
rugged desert surface below.

2669
00:57:23.940 --> 00:57:24.908
As I mentioned, we did have

2670
00:57:24.908 --> 00:57:25.925
a bit of precipitation here

2671
00:57:25.925 --> 00:57:26.309
the other day,

2672
00:57:26.309 --> 00:57:27.894
so that should make for a nice

2673
00:57:27.894 --> 00:57:29.762
soft surface for the desert.

2674
00:57:29.762 --> 00:57:31.948
So it probably had a nice clean

2675
00:57:31.948 --> 00:57:33.366
landing there.

2676
00:57:33.366 --> 00:57:34.417
The team will assess

2677
00:57:34.417 --> 00:57:35.101
as they get out there

2678
00:57:35.101 --> 00:57:35.435
and check

2679
00:57:35.435 --> 00:57:37.103
exactly how our conditions

2680
00:57:37.103 --> 00:57:38.071
are for the ICRC

2681
00:57:38.071 --> 00:57:38.855
in the surrounding area.

2682
00:57:38.855 --> 00:57:40.056
You heard Stu mentioning

2683
00:57:40.056 --> 00:57:40.440
the team

2684
00:57:40.440 --> 00:57:42.158
might need to wear some boots.

2685
00:57:42.158 --> 00:57:43.042
The operations can get

2686
00:57:43.042 --> 00:57:44.093
a little bit slippery

2687
00:57:44.093 --> 00:57:44.844
as they begin

2688
00:57:44.844 --> 00:57:47.514
to recover that sample.

2689
00:57:47.514 --> 00:57:49.299
And this is a pristine sample

2690
00:57:49.299 --> 00:57:50.934
from the ancient solar system.

2691
00:57:50.934 --> 00:57:51.968
It could hold the clues

2692
00:57:51.968 --> 00:57:53.336
to how everything around us

2693
00:57:53.336 --> 00:57:54.637
came to be

2694
00:57:54.637 --> 00:57:55.321
from the formation

2695
00:57:55.321 --> 00:57:56.372
of the planets

2696
00:57:56.372 --> 00:57:57.757
to the origins of life

2697
00:57:57.757 --> 00:57:59.192
here on Earth.

2698
00:57:59.192 --> 00:57:59.943
Needless to say,

2699
00:57:59.943 --> 00:58:01.327
this is precious cargo

2700
00:58:01.327 --> 00:58:02.228
and the recovery team

2701
00:58:02.228 --> 00:58:03.146
is fully aware

2702
00:58:03.146 --> 00:58:04.614
of the gravity of the situation

2703
00:58:04.614 --> 00:58:05.798
and the importance of what

2704
00:58:05.798 --> 00:58:06.716
they're about to do today with

2705
00:58:06.716 --> 00:58:09.602
these recovery operations.

2706
00:58:09.686 --> 00:58:09.903
You can

2707
00:58:09.903 --> 00:58:10.920
see it looks like our parachute

2708
00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:12.989
has come to a stable rest.

2709
00:58:12.989 --> 00:58:13.439
The winds were

2710
00:58:13.439 --> 00:58:14.107
pretty low today,

2711
00:58:14.107 --> 00:58:14.674
so it looks like

2712
00:58:14.674 --> 00:58:16.142
it is not blowing at all.

2713
00:58:16.142 --> 00:58:17.494
It is almost perfectly flat,

2714
00:58:17.494 --> 00:58:19.145
at least from this perspective,

2715
00:58:19.145 --> 00:58:26.836
on that desert terrain

2716
00:58:26.903 --> 00:58:27.337
and throughout

2717
00:58:27.337 --> 00:58:28.104
all these operations,

2718
00:58:28.104 --> 00:58:28.705
the crew members

2719
00:58:28.705 --> 00:58:30.006
safety is paramount.

2720
00:58:30.006 --> 00:58:31.257
So you'll see the team

2721
00:58:31.257 --> 00:58:31.891
probably huddle up

2722
00:58:31.891 --> 00:58:32.458
a couple of times

2723
00:58:32.458 --> 00:58:32.842
as we begin

2724
00:58:32.842 --> 00:58:34.294
these recovery operations

2725
00:58:34.294 --> 00:58:34.711
to make sure

2726
00:58:34.711 --> 00:58:36.112
that everything is safe

2727
00:58:36.112 --> 00:58:37.463
and continues to be nominal

2728
00:58:37.463 --> 00:58:38.364
as they make

2729
00:58:38.364 --> 00:58:41.367
their initial safety sweep.

2730
00:58:41.618 --> 00:58:42.535
All of this recovery

2731
00:58:42.535 --> 00:58:44.003
should be a very quick process.

2732
00:58:44.003 --> 00:58:45.004
Usually they've rehearsed

2733
00:58:45.004 --> 00:58:46.055
for this again for months.

2734
00:58:46.055 --> 00:58:46.973
They've been out here

2735
00:58:46.973 --> 00:58:47.557
all summer

2736
00:58:47.557 --> 00:58:48.241
really rehearsing

2737
00:58:48.241 --> 00:58:48.775
for this moment.

2738
00:58:48.775 --> 00:58:49.542
They had to drop tests

2739
00:58:49.542 --> 00:58:50.793
last month.

2740
00:58:50.793 --> 00:58:52.078
They've also had

2741
00:58:52.078 --> 00:58:53.096
numerous rehearsals

2742
00:58:53.096 --> 00:58:53.846
actually practicing,

2743
00:58:53.846 --> 00:58:54.898
containing the necessary,

2744
00:58:54.898 --> 00:58:57.116
getting it on a simple

2745
00:58:57.116 --> 00:58:58.084
carrying fixture.

2746
00:58:58.084 --> 00:58:58.468
Recovery

2747
00:58:58.468 --> 00:59:00.336
operations WB has located

2748
00:59:00.336 --> 00:59:02.238
the parachute on the ground.

2749
00:59:02.238 --> 00:59:02.755
And you just heard

2750
00:59:02.755 --> 00:59:03.456
that confirmation

2751
00:59:03.456 --> 00:59:04.023
from that high

2752
00:59:04.023 --> 00:59:04.674
altitude plane

2753
00:59:04.674 --> 00:59:05.708
locating that parachute

2754
00:59:05.708 --> 00:59:07.076
on the ground.

2755
00:59:07.076 --> 00:59:08.044
This location info

2756
00:59:08.044 --> 00:59:09.145
will be relayed to our team

2757
00:59:09.145 --> 00:59:10.113
members aboard

2758
00:59:10.113 --> 00:59:11.364
those helicopters as they begin

2759
00:59:11.364 --> 00:59:12.265
their approach out

2760
00:59:12.265 --> 00:59:23.076
to the landing zone.

2761
00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:24.244
We do have that confirmation

2762
00:59:24.244 --> 00:59:25.328
from the high altitude plane.

2763
00:59:25.328 --> 00:59:25.862
As you just heard,

2764
00:59:25.862 --> 00:59:26.546
we're still working

2765
00:59:26.546 --> 00:59:27.413
to get confirmation

2766
00:59:27.413 --> 00:59:28.865
from our NASA

2767
00:59:28.865 --> 00:59:30.266
helicopter

2768
00:59:30.266 --> 00:59:31.568
is on its way out to that

2769
00:59:31.568 --> 00:59:33.202
landing zone as we speak.

2770
00:59:33.202 --> 00:59:33.653
So we should

2771
00:59:33.653 --> 00:59:35.071
hopefully have the view up in

2772
00:59:35.071 --> 00:59:36.956
just a few moments.

2773
00:59:36.956 --> 00:59:38.124
You continue to see our team

2774
00:59:38.124 --> 00:59:38.908
just next door with the mission

2775
00:59:38.908 --> 00:59:39.993
operations team

2776
00:59:39.993 --> 00:59:41.127
all looking at that high

2777
00:59:41.127 --> 00:59:45.281
altitude view

2778
00:59:45.365 --> 00:59:46.165
right in the middle there.

2779
00:59:46.165 --> 00:59:46.766
Just pointing around

2780
00:59:46.766 --> 00:59:47.333
with the U.V.

2781
00:59:47.333 --> 00:59:48.151
white shirt is Rick

2782
00:59:48.151 --> 00:59:48.668
Weatherspoon

2783
00:59:48.668 --> 00:59:49.352
from Lockheed Martin.

2784
00:59:49.352 --> 00:59:50.336
He has been leading

2785
00:59:50.336 --> 00:59:51.271
a lot of these operations

2786
00:59:51.271 --> 00:59:52.655
for the past couple of months.

2787
00:59:52.655 --> 00:59:53.573
He's been preparing the team

2788
00:59:53.573 --> 00:59:54.958
for this exact moment

2789
00:59:54.958 --> 00:59:55.742
and really has been

2790
00:59:55.742 --> 00:59:56.793
a great leader,

2791
00:59:56.793 --> 00:59:57.877
helping us get ready

2792
00:59:57.877 --> 01:00:10.123
for these recovery operations.

2793
01:00:10.206 --> 01:00:10.506
Yeah.

2794
01:00:10.506 --> 01:00:10.974
So this

2795
01:00:10.974 --> 01:00:12.025
ellipse here, this landing

2796
01:00:12.025 --> 01:00:14.043
zone is a quite large

2797
01:00:14.043 --> 01:00:14.577
set up here.

2798
01:00:14.577 --> 01:00:15.428
And this was chosen

2799
01:00:15.428 --> 01:00:17.730
intentionally for this mission.

2800
01:00:17.730 --> 01:00:19.165
It's about 37

2801
01:00:19.165 --> 01:00:20.783
miles by nine miles total.

2802
01:00:20.783 --> 01:00:22.285
This landing ellipse

2803
01:00:22.285 --> 01:00:23.436
out in the Utah Test

2804
01:00:23.436 --> 01:00:24.871
and training range here

2805
01:00:24.871 --> 01:00:26.639
in Dugway, Utah.

2806
01:00:26.639 --> 01:00:28.057
This is an enormous facility,

2807
01:00:28.057 --> 01:00:28.708
as you heard earlier.

2808
01:00:28.708 --> 01:00:29.492
It's about the size

2809
01:00:29.492 --> 01:00:30.209
of Rhode Island.

2810
01:00:30.209 --> 01:00:30.627
All in all,

2811
01:00:30.627 --> 01:00:32.729
this whole facility,

2812
01:00:32.729 --> 01:00:34.013
it's relatively flat,

2813
01:00:34.013 --> 01:00:35.131
very smooth terrain.

2814
01:00:35.131 --> 01:00:36.716
This desert.

2815
01:00:36.716 --> 01:00:37.417
So it's perfect

2816
01:00:37.417 --> 01:00:38.368
for bringing something back

2817
01:00:38.368 --> 01:00:38.851
and having that

2818
01:00:38.851 --> 01:00:40.770
nice, safe landing

2819
01:00:40.770 --> 01:00:45.575
on the desert surface.

2820
01:00:45.658 --> 01:00:46.376
Just a few years

2821
01:00:46.376 --> 01:00:47.644
ago, the Osiris-rex

2822
01:00:47.644 --> 01:00:49.562
spacecraft back in 2020

2823
01:00:49.562 --> 01:00:50.730
made its tag attempt,

2824
01:00:50.730 --> 01:00:51.864
the touch and go

2825
01:00:51.864 --> 01:00:53.282
attempt to actually collect

2826
01:00:53.282 --> 01:00:53.700
the sample

2827
01:00:53.700 --> 01:00:54.384
that is now landed

2828
01:00:54.384 --> 01:00:55.952
in this desert.

2829
01:00:55.952 --> 01:00:56.552
When it did that,

2830
01:00:56.552 --> 01:00:57.503
it was only at the surface

2831
01:00:57.503 --> 01:00:59.005
for just a couple seconds,

2832
01:00:59.005 --> 01:00:59.872
descending at a speed

2833
01:00:59.872 --> 01:01:00.907
about 11 centimeters

2834
01:01:00.907 --> 01:01:01.624
per second,

2835
01:01:01.624 --> 01:01:02.158
just a little bit

2836
01:01:02.158 --> 01:01:03.276
faster than a baby

2837
01:01:03.276 --> 01:01:04.227
that is crawling.

2838
01:01:04.227 --> 01:01:05.845
It's a very slow pace.

2839
01:01:05.845 --> 01:01:06.329
But they're able

2840
01:01:06.329 --> 01:01:08.314
to successfully get that sample

2841
01:01:08.314 --> 01:01:09.115
and bring it

2842
01:01:09.115 --> 01:01:09.716
from the edge

2843
01:01:09.716 --> 01:01:10.883
of our solar system

2844
01:01:10.883 --> 01:01:12.035
back to us here

2845
01:01:12.035 --> 01:01:12.635
at the Utah

2846
01:01:12.635 --> 01:01:18.041
Test and Training Range.

2847
01:01:18.124 --> 01:01:18.574
You can see our

2848
01:01:18.574 --> 01:01:19.258
full screen view

2849
01:01:19.258 --> 01:01:20.076
here of that high

2850
01:01:20.076 --> 01:01:21.627
altitude view,

2851
01:01:21.627 --> 01:01:22.795
looking at the parachute

2852
01:01:22.795 --> 01:01:23.496
at rest

2853
01:01:23.496 --> 01:01:26.099
on the surface of the desert.

2854
01:01:26.099 --> 01:01:27.450
This is at the Utah Test

2855
01:01:27.450 --> 01:01:30.002
and Training Range.

2856
01:01:30.002 --> 01:01:31.854
It's a wide open expanse here.

2857
01:01:31.854 --> 01:01:33.322
And the team

2858
01:01:33.322 --> 01:01:34.524
has this position when flown,

2859
01:01:34.524 --> 01:01:35.274
they'll be relaying

2860
01:01:35.274 --> 01:01:36.576
that to our helicopter teams

2861
01:01:36.576 --> 01:01:36.876
to begin

2862
01:01:36.876 --> 01:01:45.368
this recovery operations.

2863
01:01:45.451 --> 01:01:45.752
And we'll

2864
01:01:45.752 --> 01:01:45.985
you'll see

2865
01:01:45.985 --> 01:01:46.652
in a couple of seconds

2866
01:01:46.652 --> 01:01:47.403
here, the recovery

2867
01:01:47.403 --> 01:01:49.021
team, recovery crews,

2868
01:01:49.021 --> 01:01:50.106
our responsible

2869
01:01:50.106 --> 01:01:51.023
for securing the sample

2870
01:01:51.023 --> 01:01:52.325
return capsule,

2871
01:01:52.325 --> 01:01:53.976
the landing site around it,

2872
01:01:53.976 --> 01:01:55.628
and helicoptering the SLC

2873
01:01:55.628 --> 01:01:56.813
to a portable clean room

2874
01:01:56.813 --> 01:01:57.480
that's located

2875
01:01:57.480 --> 01:01:58.231
just next door

2876
01:01:58.231 --> 01:02:00.933
here on the range.

2877
01:02:00.933 --> 01:02:02.185
And just a little bit later

2878
01:02:02.185 --> 01:02:03.453
on, it's going to be attached

2879
01:02:03.453 --> 01:02:05.488
to a 100 foot long line

2880
01:02:05.488 --> 01:02:07.590
beneath one of the helicopters

2881
01:02:07.590 --> 01:02:08.124
and they will actually

2882
01:02:08.124 --> 01:02:09.058
be flown to the clean room.

2883
01:02:09.058 --> 01:02:09.726
This was determined

2884
01:02:09.726 --> 01:02:10.326
to be

2885
01:02:10.326 --> 01:02:11.194
the best possible

2886
01:02:11.194 --> 01:02:11.944
way to transport

2887
01:02:11.944 --> 01:02:14.163
that as safely and efficiently

2888
01:02:14.163 --> 01:02:15.631
to get it on a nitrogen purge

2889
01:02:15.631 --> 01:02:16.833
and maintain the pristine

2890
01:02:16.833 --> 01:02:19.001
nature of the sample within.

2891
01:02:19.085 --> 01:02:19.852
As I mentioned, this

2892
01:02:19.852 --> 01:02:20.403
is an

2893
01:02:20.403 --> 01:02:21.954
enormous ellipse,

2894
01:02:21.954 --> 01:02:23.823
37 by nine miles.

2895
01:02:23.823 --> 01:02:24.907
It's a large expanse

2896
01:02:24.907 --> 01:02:26.159
to cover by car.

2897
01:02:26.159 --> 01:02:27.059
It's a very bumpy ride

2898
01:02:27.059 --> 01:02:27.326
out there

2899
01:02:27.326 --> 01:02:28.444
as you kind of start

2900
01:02:28.444 --> 01:02:29.195
to make your approach

2901
01:02:29.195 --> 01:02:31.197
across this rugged terrain

2902
01:02:31.197 --> 01:02:32.064
with the helicopters,

2903
01:02:32.064 --> 01:02:33.032
it will be approximately

2904
01:02:33.032 --> 01:02:33.783
a 20 minute

2905
01:02:33.783 --> 01:02:35.017
flight back

2906
01:02:35.017 --> 01:02:35.735
within us or see

2907
01:02:35.735 --> 01:02:36.152
they take it

2908
01:02:36.152 --> 01:02:38.004
at a nice slow pace,

2909
01:02:38.004 --> 01:02:39.055
effectively parading

2910
01:02:39.055 --> 01:02:40.506
the SLC around,

2911
01:02:40.506 --> 01:02:42.809
just giving it its last

2912
01:02:42.809 --> 01:02:45.178
big moment as it is

2913
01:02:45.178 --> 01:02:46.312
served its purpose sufficiently

2914
01:02:46.312 --> 01:02:46.679
at this point

2915
01:02:46.679 --> 01:02:47.697
of getting that sample

2916
01:02:47.697 --> 01:02:53.136
canister safely here to Earth.

2917
01:02:53.219 --> 01:02:54.203
Once we actually land

2918
01:02:54.203 --> 01:02:54.654
and begin

2919
01:02:54.654 --> 01:02:55.438
this recovery operations,

2920
01:02:55.438 --> 01:02:55.688
you'll see

2921
01:02:55.688 --> 01:02:56.522
a lot of team members out

2922
01:02:56.522 --> 01:02:58.524
beginning to take samples,

2923
01:02:58.524 --> 01:02:59.225
both air

2924
01:02:59.225 --> 01:03:00.209
and also soil samples

2925
01:03:00.209 --> 01:03:01.477
from around the area.

2926
01:03:01.477 --> 01:03:03.963
These are places of interest

2927
01:03:03.963 --> 01:03:05.164
for the sample curation team

2928
01:03:05.164 --> 01:03:06.115
that will actually open up

2929
01:03:06.115 --> 01:03:06.866
the sample canister

2930
01:03:06.866 --> 01:03:07.834
in the coming days.

2931
01:03:07.834 --> 01:03:08.734
Down at the Johnson

2932
01:03:08.734 --> 01:03:10.987
Space Center in Houston, Texas.

2933
01:03:10.987 --> 01:03:12.722
They have a phenomenal sample

2934
01:03:12.722 --> 01:03:14.257
curation facility there.

2935
01:03:14.257 --> 01:03:15.424
And these samples from asteroid

2936
01:03:15.424 --> 01:03:16.442
BENNU will join

2937
01:03:16.442 --> 01:03:18.177
a historic collection

2938
01:03:18.177 --> 01:03:19.295
of other asteroid materials,

2939
01:03:19.295 --> 01:03:20.313
including samples

2940
01:03:20.313 --> 01:03:20.947
from the Apollo

2941
01:03:20.947 --> 01:03:21.814
mission,

2942
01:03:21.814 --> 01:03:23.099
samples from both the Stardust

2943
01:03:23.099 --> 01:03:24.750
and Genesis missions,

2944
01:03:24.750 --> 01:03:26.786
as well as Antarctic meteorites

2945
01:03:26.786 --> 01:03:27.353
that were collected

2946
01:03:27.353 --> 01:03:30.556
by our scientists.

2947
01:03:30.623 --> 01:03:31.107
In the coming

2948
01:03:31.107 --> 01:03:31.774
days, we'll actually know

2949
01:03:31.774 --> 01:03:32.825
exactly how much sample

2950
01:03:32.825 --> 01:03:33.726
we got back from Bennu.

2951
01:03:33.726 --> 01:03:34.644
The original

2952
01:03:34.644 --> 01:03:35.795
mission requirement

2953
01:03:35.795 --> 01:03:36.846
was 60 grams

2954
01:03:36.846 --> 01:03:38.431
of pristine sample

2955
01:03:38.431 --> 01:03:41.184
from the asteroid surface

2956
01:03:41.184 --> 01:03:41.767
based on some

2957
01:03:41.767 --> 01:03:43.319
very clever engineering.

2958
01:03:43.319 --> 01:03:44.453
The team believes

2959
01:03:44.453 --> 01:03:44.971
that they have

2960
01:03:44.971 --> 01:03:47.406
potentially 250 grams

2961
01:03:47.406 --> 01:03:48.090
or six times

2962
01:03:48.090 --> 01:03:48.424
that mission

2963
01:03:48.424 --> 01:03:56.015
requirement inside.

2964
01:03:56.098 --> 01:03:56.916
And so we just heard that

2965
01:03:56.916 --> 01:03:58.117
unofficial touchdown

2966
01:03:58.117 --> 01:04:00.903
time was at 8:52 a.m.

2967
01:04:00.903 --> 01:04:02.004
Mountain Time

2968
01:04:02.004 --> 01:04:03.206
here at the Utah Test

2969
01:04:03.206 --> 01:04:03.906
and Training Range

2970
01:04:03.906 --> 01:04:05.825
in Dugway, Utah.

2971
01:04:05.825 --> 01:04:06.659
If you're just joining us,

2972
01:04:06.659 --> 01:04:07.710
you see that view right now

2973
01:04:07.710 --> 01:04:08.377
from one of our high

2974
01:04:08.377 --> 01:04:09.545
altitude planes

2975
01:04:09.545 --> 01:04:10.863
observing our touchdown

2976
01:04:10.863 --> 01:04:12.565
location.

2977
01:04:12.565 --> 01:04:14.400
On your screen, just above that

2978
01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:15.935
crosshair is the orange

2979
01:04:15.935 --> 01:04:17.703
creamsicle colored parachute

2980
01:04:17.703 --> 01:04:19.055
that brought us the last part

2981
01:04:19.055 --> 01:04:19.822
of our journey down to

2982
01:04:19.822 --> 01:04:36.105
the surface of the earth.

2983
01:04:36.188 --> 01:04:36.839
You heard from Jim

2984
01:04:36.839 --> 01:04:37.323
earlier that,

2985
01:04:37.323 --> 01:04:37.957
I mean, parachutes

2986
01:04:37.957 --> 01:04:40.743
about 24 feet across,

2987
01:04:40.743 --> 01:04:41.827
fairly large parachute

2988
01:04:41.827 --> 01:04:43.446
that helped us decelerate

2989
01:04:43.446 --> 01:04:56.075
on our last leg of the journey.

2990
01:04:56.158 --> 01:04:56.792
And so we just heard

2991
01:04:56.792 --> 01:04:57.693
a confirmation, actually,

2992
01:04:57.693 --> 01:04:58.561
that the main parachute

2993
01:04:58.561 --> 01:04:59.428
deployed much higher

2994
01:04:59.428 --> 01:04:59.679
than it

2995
01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:01.464
was originally anticipated.

2996
01:05:01.464 --> 01:05:02.431
It was originally supposed

2997
01:05:02.431 --> 01:05:02.798
to deploy

2998
01:05:02.798 --> 01:05:05.284
at about 5000 feet elevation,

2999
01:05:05.284 --> 01:05:06.485
but it actually deployed

3000
01:05:06.485 --> 01:05:08.337
at around 20,000 feet,

3001
01:05:08.337 --> 01:05:09.572
so much higher up.

3002
01:05:09.572 --> 01:05:10.256
So that would explain

3003
01:05:10.256 --> 01:05:12.058
our kind of earlier touchdown

3004
01:05:12.058 --> 01:05:21.217
than expected here.

3005
01:05:21.300 --> 01:05:22.919
Still has touchdown

3006
01:05:22.919 --> 01:05:23.753
on the Utah test

3007
01:05:23.753 --> 01:05:38.200
and training range.

3008
01:05:38.284 --> 01:05:39.218
Team members continue

3009
01:05:39.218 --> 01:05:40.836
to fly out to this location

3010
01:05:40.836 --> 01:05:42.989
aboard helicopters.

3011
01:05:42.989 --> 01:05:43.439
As I mentioned,

3012
01:05:43.439 --> 01:05:44.423
there are four recovery

3013
01:05:44.423 --> 01:05:47.143
helicopters in total.

3014
01:05:47.143 --> 01:05:48.227
The mission operations team

3015
01:05:48.227 --> 01:05:48.844
is continuing

3016
01:05:48.844 --> 01:05:53.015
to monitor the situation.

3017
01:05:53.099 --> 01:05:53.783
They're the ones who are

3018
01:05:53.783 --> 01:05:54.367
relaying us

3019
01:05:54.367 --> 01:05:54.834
that info

3020
01:05:54.834 --> 01:05:55.718
about the high parachute

3021
01:05:55.718 --> 01:05:57.503
deployment, the 20,000 foot

3022
01:05:57.503 --> 01:06:03.376
parachute deployment.

3023
01:06:03.442 --> 01:06:04.043
They're going to be

3024
01:06:04.043 --> 01:06:05.044
assessing the situation

3025
01:06:05.044 --> 01:06:06.028
from there, interviewing

3026
01:06:06.028 --> 01:06:07.229
any possible info

3027
01:06:07.229 --> 01:06:08.364
over to our recovery teams

3028
01:06:08.364 --> 01:06:09.365
as they begin

3029
01:06:09.365 --> 01:06:10.616
to make their trip

3030
01:06:10.616 --> 01:06:25.665
out to our SIRC.

3031
01:06:25.748 --> 01:06:26.932
One of the first goals once

3032
01:06:26.932 --> 01:06:27.516
the team gets out

3033
01:06:27.516 --> 01:06:28.501
there is to safe

3034
01:06:28.501 --> 01:06:30.786
and stow the parachute

3035
01:06:30.786 --> 01:06:31.137
and begin

3036
01:06:31.137 --> 01:06:32.455
to mark places of interest.

3037
01:06:32.455 --> 01:06:32.972
As I mentioned,

3038
01:06:32.972 --> 01:06:33.839
for the curation team

3039
01:06:33.839 --> 01:06:36.325
to begin sampling.

3040
01:06:36.325 --> 01:06:37.259
This is all very well

3041
01:06:37.259 --> 01:06:38.160
coordinated machine,

3042
01:06:38.160 --> 01:06:38.694
very well

3043
01:06:38.694 --> 01:06:39.328
oiled machine

3044
01:06:39.328 --> 01:06:41.881
that operates in tandem.

3045
01:06:41.881 --> 01:06:43.582
They've rehearsed

3046
01:06:43.582 --> 01:06:58.514
extensively for this moment.

3047
01:06:58.597 --> 01:06:59.732
So we just heard from the team

3048
01:06:59.732 --> 01:07:00.983
in that mission operations room

3049
01:07:00.983 --> 01:07:01.951
that they have visual

3050
01:07:01.951 --> 01:07:02.818
of the

3051
01:07:02.818 --> 01:07:03.686
that orange parachute

3052
01:07:03.686 --> 01:07:04.203
that you saw

3053
01:07:04.203 --> 01:07:05.821
on your screen moments ago.

3054
01:07:05.821 --> 01:07:06.489
But we do not yet

3055
01:07:06.489 --> 01:07:07.506
have visual confirmation

3056
01:07:07.506 --> 01:07:09.992
of the source itself.

3057
01:07:09.992 --> 01:07:10.826
The team is continuing

3058
01:07:10.826 --> 01:07:12.428
to survey the region,

3059
01:07:12.428 --> 01:07:13.112
looking for that

3060
01:07:13.112 --> 01:07:33.783
sample return capsule

3061
01:07:33.866 --> 01:07:35.818
recovery operations

3062
01:07:35.818 --> 01:07:36.952
heroes one and two

3063
01:07:36.952 --> 01:07:38.154
are in the area

3064
01:07:38.154 --> 01:07:39.488
of the landing site

3065
01:07:39.488 --> 01:07:39.805
and they

3066
01:07:39.805 --> 01:07:42.324
in the search operation.

3067
01:07:42.324 --> 01:07:42.925
So you just heard that

3068
01:07:42.925 --> 01:07:43.793
call out from Tim Presser,

3069
01:07:43.793 --> 01:07:44.677
who you see on your screen

3070
01:07:44.677 --> 01:07:45.327
there from the mishap

3071
01:07:45.327 --> 01:07:46.328
mission operations room.

3072
01:07:46.328 --> 01:07:47.246
He just announced that

3073
01:07:47.246 --> 01:07:48.064
he'll lose one or two

3074
01:07:48.064 --> 01:07:49.465
are now at that landing site.

3075
01:07:49.465 --> 01:07:50.483
They're pointing out

3076
01:07:50.483 --> 01:07:51.217
something on the screen.

3077
01:07:51.217 --> 01:07:51.967
I see some smiles.

3078
01:07:51.967 --> 01:07:52.868
It seems like

3079
01:07:52.868 --> 01:07:53.936
we might have potentially

3080
01:07:53.936 --> 01:07:54.870
some more information on

3081
01:07:54.870 --> 01:07:55.321
that as our

3082
01:07:55.321 --> 01:07:58.624
see in the coming moments.

3083
01:07:58.707 --> 01:07:59.175
He was one

3084
01:07:59.175 --> 01:08:00.176
and two will be serving

3085
01:08:00.176 --> 01:08:01.527
this region,

3086
01:08:01.527 --> 01:08:02.995
looking for both that search

3087
01:08:02.995 --> 01:08:04.146
and also

3088
01:08:04.146 --> 01:08:05.097
eyeing up the region,

3089
01:08:05.097 --> 01:08:06.365
looking at that parachute

3090
01:08:06.365 --> 01:08:07.166
that was deployed

3091
01:08:07.166 --> 01:08:08.167
to the operations

3092
01:08:08.167 --> 01:08:11.153
of all of the ground supported

3093
01:08:11.403 --> 01:08:12.805
vehicles, have left work

3094
01:08:12.805 --> 01:08:15.207
and are in pursuit of earnings.

3095
01:08:15.207 --> 01:08:16.559
Okay.

3096
01:08:16.559 --> 01:08:17.243
So more team

3097
01:08:17.243 --> 01:08:17.877
members are going to be

3098
01:08:17.877 --> 01:08:18.511
heading out to that

3099
01:08:18.511 --> 01:08:19.261
landing zone as well

3100
01:08:19.261 --> 01:08:19.829
in support

3101
01:08:19.829 --> 01:08:20.913
of those four helicopters.

3102
01:08:20.913 --> 01:08:22.465
That will be the main

3103
01:08:22.465 --> 01:08:26.836
group recovering that sample.

3104
01:08:26.902 --> 01:08:28.170
The main helicopter will be

3105
01:08:28.170 --> 01:08:29.155
actually attaching

3106
01:08:29.155 --> 01:08:30.089
that sample return capsule

3107
01:08:30.089 --> 01:08:32.792
once the team has it located

3108
01:08:32.792 --> 01:08:34.026
and ready to prepare

3109
01:08:34.026 --> 01:08:35.694
for recovery operations,

3110
01:08:35.694 --> 01:08:36.362
they will load that

3111
01:08:36.362 --> 01:08:38.814
on Long Island,

3112
01:08:38.814 --> 01:08:40.116
can see some once again,

3113
01:08:40.116 --> 01:08:40.733
some team members

3114
01:08:40.733 --> 01:08:41.433
pointing out items

3115
01:08:41.433 --> 01:08:42.067
on the screen here.

3116
01:08:42.067 --> 01:08:42.535
We'll hopefully

3117
01:08:42.535 --> 01:08:44.069
get confirmation

3118
01:08:44.069 --> 01:08:45.437
in the coming minutes of that

3119
01:08:45.437 --> 01:08:49.692
as our location.

3120
01:08:49.775 --> 01:08:50.793
Tim Fries are pointing

3121
01:08:50.793 --> 01:08:52.595
at the screen now, wondering

3122
01:08:52.595 --> 01:08:54.063
if he has any more information

3123
01:08:54.063 --> 01:08:54.780
for us on where

3124
01:08:54.780 --> 01:08:55.381
that sample return

3125
01:08:55.381 --> 01:08:57.900
capsule location would be.

3126
01:08:57.900 --> 01:08:59.335
We do have visual confirmation

3127
01:08:59.335 --> 01:09:00.035
of that parachute.

3128
01:09:00.035 --> 01:09:18.771
As I mentioned,

3129
01:09:18.854 --> 01:09:19.688
where there's been reading

3130
01:09:19.688 --> 01:09:20.156
out to the team.

3131
01:09:20.156 --> 01:09:20.856
And now we have a view

3132
01:09:20.856 --> 01:09:23.609
from our helicopter

3133
01:09:23.609 --> 01:09:24.877
of the landing location.

3134
01:09:24.877 --> 01:09:27.062
You can see the sample return

3135
01:09:27.062 --> 01:09:28.047
capsule dead center

3136
01:09:28.047 --> 01:09:28.497
on your screen,

3137
01:09:28.497 --> 01:09:29.815
that kind of dark gray

3138
01:09:29.815 --> 01:09:31.650
black object right there.

3139
01:09:31.650 --> 01:09:32.701
And then just to

3140
01:09:32.701 --> 01:09:33.602
the right of it

3141
01:09:33.602 --> 01:09:33.986
a little bit

3142
01:09:33.986 --> 01:09:35.938
below is our parachute

3143
01:09:35.938 --> 01:09:36.956
that appears to be resting

3144
01:09:36.956 --> 01:09:37.523
on the surface.

3145
01:09:37.523 --> 01:09:38.557
We're getting a zoom in now

3146
01:09:38.557 --> 01:09:40.142
from our NASA's helicopter.

3147
01:09:40.142 --> 01:09:41.610
And you can see now the SSR.

3148
01:09:41.610 --> 01:09:43.195
See at last

3149
01:09:43.195 --> 01:09:44.430
we have a visual of it

3150
01:09:44.430 --> 01:09:45.598
on the surface of the

3151
01:09:45.598 --> 01:09:48.033
Utah Test and training range.

3152
01:09:48.117 --> 01:09:48.784
I'm sure that is

3153
01:09:48.784 --> 01:09:49.435
a pleasant sight

3154
01:09:49.435 --> 01:09:51.787
for the team to see.

3155
01:09:51.787 --> 01:09:53.556
Recovery operations,

3156
01:09:53.556 --> 01:09:56.392
You have to have visual on the

3157
01:09:56.392 --> 01:09:57.142
I repeat,

3158
01:09:57.142 --> 01:09:59.078
as far as he has been located

3159
01:09:59.078 --> 01:10:00.396
and we have a visual on that,

3160
01:10:00.396 --> 01:10:00.746
as I see,

3161
01:10:00.746 --> 01:10:01.697
it appears that the parachute

3162
01:10:01.697 --> 01:10:02.581
has also disconnected.

3163
01:10:02.581 --> 01:10:03.716
It's a little bit off

3164
01:10:03.716 --> 01:10:05.401
from that as RC

3165
01:10:05.401 --> 01:10:06.635
disconnecting from the back

3166
01:10:06.635 --> 01:10:07.286
channel,

3167
01:10:07.286 --> 01:10:08.137
the appears

3168
01:10:08.137 --> 01:10:09.505
to be resting on its nose.

3169
01:10:09.505 --> 01:10:10.472
That heat shield

3170
01:10:10.472 --> 01:10:11.190
that protected it

3171
01:10:11.190 --> 01:10:12.007
the whole way down

3172
01:10:12.007 --> 01:10:14.994
through that entry and landing.

3173
01:10:15.060 --> 01:10:15.578
Lockheed

3174
01:10:15.578 --> 01:10:16.762
is celebrating that moment.

3175
01:10:16.762 --> 01:10:17.846
I'm sure they're breathing

3176
01:10:17.846 --> 01:10:19.348
another sigh of relief here.

3177
01:10:19.348 --> 01:10:20.332
It's been a wild morning

3178
01:10:20.332 --> 01:10:21.183
for everyone involved.

3179
01:10:21.183 --> 01:10:21.717
They've been up

3180
01:10:21.717 --> 01:10:22.685
since the crack of dawn

3181
01:10:22.685 --> 01:10:23.552
just a little bit further north

3182
01:10:23.552 --> 01:10:25.287
from us in Waterton, Colorado.

3183
01:10:25.287 --> 01:10:26.255
They gave the go command

3184
01:10:26.255 --> 01:10:27.239
to actually release

3185
01:10:27.239 --> 01:10:27.957
that SRT

3186
01:10:27.957 --> 01:10:29.124
that you see on your screen

3187
01:10:29.124 --> 01:10:29.875
right there

3188
01:10:29.875 --> 01:10:31.377
from the Osiris-rex spacecraft

3189
01:10:31.377 --> 01:10:33.128
about 4 hours ago.

3190
01:10:33.128 --> 01:10:33.479
It then

3191
01:10:33.479 --> 01:10:35.214
ventured entirely on its own

3192
01:10:35.214 --> 01:10:36.565
and now sits on its own

3193
01:10:36.565 --> 01:10:37.616
For us here in the Utah

3194
01:10:37.616 --> 01:10:41.136
Test and Training Range.

3195
01:10:41.220 --> 01:10:42.154
So now that we have visual,

3196
01:10:42.154 --> 01:10:43.255
the teams should be able

3197
01:10:43.255 --> 01:10:43.822
to begin

3198
01:10:43.822 --> 01:10:45.157
the recovery operations

3199
01:10:45.157 --> 01:10:47.243
in just a few moments.

3200
01:10:47.243 --> 01:10:47.943
As I mentioned, that

3201
01:10:47.943 --> 01:10:49.194
first person on scene

3202
01:10:49.194 --> 01:10:52.197
will be the on scene Stu Wylie.

3203
01:10:52.298 --> 01:10:52.715
He'll be doing

3204
01:10:52.715 --> 01:10:53.499
an environmental sweep.

3205
01:10:53.499 --> 01:10:54.650
We're getting a nice close up.

3206
01:10:54.650 --> 01:10:55.084
You can see

3207
01:10:55.084 --> 01:10:57.036
the parachute disconnected

3208
01:10:57.036 --> 01:10:57.603
and see some of

3209
01:10:57.603 --> 01:10:59.521
the wiring of it there.

3210
01:10:59.521 --> 01:11:00.606
Just a little bit off

3211
01:11:00.606 --> 01:11:02.725
the edge of our SSD.

3212
01:11:02.725 --> 01:11:03.943
The SLC looks quite

3213
01:11:03.943 --> 01:11:05.010
charred up from that entry

3214
01:11:05.010 --> 01:11:07.313
and that was expected

3215
01:11:07.313 --> 01:11:08.664
as we heated up to temperatures

3216
01:11:08.664 --> 01:11:10.199
over 5000 degrees

3217
01:11:10.199 --> 01:11:11.517
Fahrenheit upon entry

3218
01:11:11.517 --> 01:11:14.520
into Earth's atmosphere.

3219
01:11:14.520 --> 01:11:15.487
You see a great visual,

3220
01:11:15.487 --> 01:11:16.088
some of that rugged

3221
01:11:16.088 --> 01:11:17.222
terrain out there,

3222
01:11:17.222 --> 01:11:18.807
just a sweeping expanse,

3223
01:11:18.807 --> 01:11:20.309
very panoramic terrain

3224
01:11:20.309 --> 01:11:21.060
at the Utah Test

3225
01:11:21.060 --> 01:11:23.279
and Training range.

3226
01:11:23.279 --> 01:11:24.213
It's a great location

3227
01:11:24.213 --> 01:11:26.465
us to land this sample.

3228
01:11:26.548 --> 01:11:27.333
The team looking

3229
01:11:27.333 --> 01:11:28.017
a lot more relieved

3230
01:11:28.017 --> 01:11:28.317
now that we

3231
01:11:28.317 --> 01:11:32.888
actually have visual

3232
01:11:32.972 --> 01:11:33.872
and we should be able to begin

3233
01:11:33.872 --> 01:11:34.406
this recovery

3234
01:11:34.406 --> 01:11:41.947
operations shortly.

3235
01:11:42.031 --> 01:11:42.865
Inside that sample

3236
01:11:42.865 --> 01:11:43.916
return capsule

3237
01:11:43.916 --> 01:11:45.084
are pieces of

3238
01:11:45.084 --> 01:11:47.403
the asteroid BENNU

3239
01:11:47.403 --> 01:11:48.120
will be getting access

3240
01:11:48.120 --> 01:11:49.088
to those samples

3241
01:11:49.088 --> 01:11:50.005
in just a few days

3242
01:11:50.005 --> 01:11:50.372
and actually

3243
01:11:50.372 --> 01:11:51.690
seeing exactly what we got

3244
01:11:51.690 --> 01:11:55.060
from the asteroid regolith.

3245
01:11:55.144 --> 01:11:57.096
This mission continues to amaze

3246
01:11:57.096 --> 01:11:58.113
me and everyone involved here.

3247
01:11:58.113 --> 01:11:59.948
The engineering is ingenious

3248
01:11:59.948 --> 01:12:00.232
for this

3249
01:12:00.232 --> 01:12:00.816
mission,

3250
01:12:00.816 --> 01:12:01.717
getting us with

3251
01:12:01.717 --> 01:12:02.584
a robotic explorer

3252
01:12:02.584 --> 01:12:03.002
to the edge

3253
01:12:03.002 --> 01:12:04.103
of the solar system,

3254
01:12:04.103 --> 01:12:06.188
collecting that sample safely,

3255
01:12:06.188 --> 01:12:07.056
stowing it

3256
01:12:07.056 --> 01:12:08.307
and then actually transporting

3257
01:12:08.307 --> 01:12:09.875
it back here to Earth

3258
01:12:09.875 --> 01:12:18.851
for us to open up and analyze

3259
01:12:18.934 --> 01:12:19.651
the surface

3260
01:12:19.651 --> 01:12:20.669
today was

3261
01:12:20.669 --> 01:12:21.603
probably a little bit soft.

3262
01:12:21.603 --> 01:12:23.222
So it looks like it's resting

3263
01:12:23.222 --> 01:12:24.089
a little bit far off

3264
01:12:24.089 --> 01:12:25.290
the actual desert.

3265
01:12:25.290 --> 01:12:25.774
It doesn't appear

3266
01:12:25.774 --> 01:12:26.642
to have dug in too much

3267
01:12:26.642 --> 01:12:27.443
with that nose cone

3268
01:12:27.443 --> 01:12:38.987
from the heat shield.

3269
01:12:39.054 --> 01:12:39.655
You were here with

3270
01:12:39.655 --> 01:12:40.572
us as we witness

3271
01:12:40.572 --> 01:12:41.557
this historic moment.

3272
01:12:41.557 --> 01:12:42.841
It's the first time

3273
01:12:42.841 --> 01:12:44.009
the United States has delivered

3274
01:12:44.009 --> 01:12:45.027
samples from an asteroid

3275
01:12:45.027 --> 01:12:46.328
to Earth.

3276
01:12:46.328 --> 01:12:46.912
And these samples

3277
01:12:46.912 --> 01:12:48.414
will be analyzed for decades

3278
01:12:48.414 --> 01:12:49.314
to come in

3279
01:12:49.314 --> 01:12:55.788
laboratories around the world.

3280
01:12:55.854 --> 01:12:57.423
And there is landing

3281
01:12:57.423 --> 01:12:58.741
of our first helicopter

3282
01:12:58.741 --> 01:13:00.008
at the site

3283
01:13:00.008 --> 01:13:00.843
appears to have a nice

3284
01:13:00.843 --> 01:13:01.560
soft landing.

3285
01:13:01.560 --> 01:13:02.845
We're just probably a couple

3286
01:13:02.845 --> 01:13:03.595
hundred feet over

3287
01:13:03.595 --> 01:13:05.514
the operations.

3288
01:13:05.514 --> 01:13:08.467
Eagle One has landed

3289
01:13:08.467 --> 01:13:09.985
at the recovery site.

3290
01:13:09.985 --> 01:13:10.886
So our first helicopter,

3291
01:13:10.886 --> 01:13:11.820
you just heard confirmation

3292
01:13:11.820 --> 01:13:12.604
and you can see visual

3293
01:13:12.604 --> 01:13:13.806
confirmation of that landing.

3294
01:13:13.806 --> 01:13:14.857
We're maybe about 100,

3295
01:13:14.857 --> 01:13:15.691
200 feet away.

3296
01:13:15.691 --> 01:13:17.693
landing away from that sample.

3297
01:13:17.693 --> 01:13:18.627
So a little bit of a hike

3298
01:13:18.627 --> 01:13:19.378
for our team members

3299
01:13:19.378 --> 01:13:20.879
to get out to that sample

3300
01:13:20.879 --> 01:13:22.297
return capsule and begin our

3301
01:13:22.297 --> 01:13:25.150
environmental safety sweep,

3302
01:13:25.234 --> 01:13:26.335
as I mentioned, are on scene.

3303
01:13:26.335 --> 01:13:27.002
Commander Stu

3304
01:13:27.002 --> 01:13:28.771
Wiley will be the first person

3305
01:13:28.771 --> 01:13:29.288
of the team

3306
01:13:29.288 --> 01:13:31.256
to actually approach the sample

3307
01:13:31.256 --> 01:13:31.507
check.

3308
01:13:31.507 --> 01:13:32.908
The area for any unexploded

3309
01:13:32.908 --> 01:13:33.625
ordnance is

3310
01:13:33.625 --> 01:13:34.793
USO's

3311
01:13:34.793 --> 01:13:35.677
that could possibly

3312
01:13:35.677 --> 01:13:37.796
be out there on the range

3313
01:13:37.796 --> 01:13:38.664
and then also make sure

3314
01:13:38.664 --> 01:13:40.499
that that RC is safe

3315
01:13:40.499 --> 01:13:41.917
for our operations team

3316
01:13:41.917 --> 01:13:47.623
to approach and begin recovery.

3317
01:13:47.706 --> 01:13:48.690
You can see where

3318
01:13:48.690 --> 01:13:49.741
that parachute disconnected

3319
01:13:49.741 --> 01:13:51.210
from the top of that.

3320
01:13:51.210 --> 01:13:52.494
Our that is the black shield

3321
01:13:52.494 --> 01:13:54.113
that you see right there

3322
01:13:54.113 --> 01:13:54.847
at the very top

3323
01:13:54.847 --> 01:13:55.914
with that little bit of white

3324
01:13:55.914 --> 01:13:56.398
wiring

3325
01:13:56.398 --> 01:13:58.517
still coming out of the top.

3326
01:13:58.517 --> 01:14:01.386
Our SC perfectly landed there

3327
01:14:01.386 --> 01:14:02.137
on the Utah Test

3328
01:14:02.137 --> 01:14:07.126
and training range.

3329
01:14:07.192 --> 01:14:08.043
So what you're about to see

3330
01:14:08.043 --> 01:14:08.343
happening

3331
01:14:08.343 --> 01:14:09.294
next is

3332
01:14:09.294 --> 01:14:10.312
the process

3333
01:14:10.312 --> 01:14:12.331
of recovery operations.

3334
01:14:12.331 --> 01:14:14.066
This is a key

3335
01:14:14.066 --> 01:14:15.417
moment of today's events

3336
01:14:15.417 --> 01:14:16.385
to actually get that s

3337
01:14:16.385 --> 01:14:18.237
RC from out in the desert

3338
01:14:18.237 --> 01:14:19.171
into our portable

3339
01:14:19.171 --> 01:14:21.306
clean room here at Dugway.

3340
01:14:21.390 --> 01:14:23.192
It is crucial that we maintain

3341
01:14:23.192 --> 01:14:24.276
the pristine

3342
01:14:24.276 --> 01:14:25.260
of this sample

3343
01:14:25.260 --> 01:14:25.928
that we got back

3344
01:14:25.928 --> 01:14:28.197
from asteroid BENNU.

3345
01:14:28.197 --> 01:14:28.914
It could hold the clues

3346
01:14:28.914 --> 01:14:29.882
to how everything around us

3347
01:14:29.882 --> 01:14:30.966
came to be from the formation

3348
01:14:30.966 --> 01:14:31.500
of the planets

3349
01:14:31.500 --> 01:14:32.768
to origins of life here.

3350
01:14:32.768 --> 01:14:34.319
So the team understands

3351
01:14:34.319 --> 01:14:35.487
just how crucial

3352
01:14:35.487 --> 01:14:37.840
the contents of that s RC is,

3353
01:14:37.840 --> 01:14:38.407
and they're going to work

3354
01:14:38.407 --> 01:14:39.475
as efficiently

3355
01:14:39.475 --> 01:14:40.592
and as safely

3356
01:14:40.592 --> 01:14:41.577
as possible to get

3357
01:14:41.577 --> 01:14:43.829
that SLC contained

3358
01:14:43.829 --> 01:14:44.313
wrapped up

3359
01:14:44.313 --> 01:14:45.147
in thermal blanketing,

3360
01:14:45.147 --> 01:14:46.315
placed in a

3361
01:14:46.315 --> 01:14:48.333
simple carrying fixture

3362
01:14:48.333 --> 01:14:49.468
and then attached

3363
01:14:49.468 --> 01:14:50.669
with long line

3364
01:14:50.669 --> 01:14:53.438
to our first helicopter. There.

3365
01:14:53.438 --> 01:14:54.473
It'll then be transported

3366
01:14:54.473 --> 01:14:56.608
the long journey back here,

3367
01:14:56.608 --> 01:14:58.043
a much more relaxing flight

3368
01:14:58.043 --> 01:14:58.594
I'm sure for

3369
01:14:58.594 --> 01:14:59.761
SLC two

3370
01:14:59.761 --> 01:15:00.863
our portable clean room

3371
01:15:00.863 --> 01:15:02.848
at Dugway,

3372
01:15:02.848 --> 01:15:03.415
at which point

3373
01:15:03.415 --> 01:15:04.233
the team members

3374
01:15:04.233 --> 01:15:06.969
will extract the back shell

3375
01:15:06.969 --> 01:15:07.803
and remove the heat

3376
01:15:07.803 --> 01:15:08.787
shield from the start

3377
01:15:08.787 --> 01:15:10.556
it served its purpose.

3378
01:15:10.556 --> 01:15:11.557
We're mainly not concerned

3379
01:15:11.557 --> 01:15:12.474
with getting the contents

3380
01:15:12.474 --> 01:15:14.459
within that sample canister

3381
01:15:14.459 --> 01:15:15.210
containing pieces

3382
01:15:15.210 --> 01:15:16.712
of the asteroid regolith

3383
01:15:16.712 --> 01:15:19.264
out of that. That's RC.

3384
01:15:19.348 --> 01:15:19.715
We won't

3385
01:15:19.715 --> 01:15:20.582
actually, as I

3386
01:15:20.582 --> 01:15:21.750
mentioned, be opening

3387
01:15:21.750 --> 01:15:23.035
that sample canister just yet.

3388
01:15:23.035 --> 01:15:25.320
Here at Dugway,

3389
01:15:25.320 --> 01:15:26.605
the team is simply focused

3390
01:15:26.605 --> 01:15:27.956
on getting the necessary

3391
01:15:27.956 --> 01:15:29.525
or the sample canister, rather,

3392
01:15:29.525 --> 01:15:31.410
on a nitrogen purge,

3393
01:15:31.410 --> 01:15:32.678
and this is to maintain

3394
01:15:32.678 --> 01:15:33.445
that pristine

3395
01:15:33.445 --> 01:15:34.379
nature and prevent

3396
01:15:34.379 --> 01:15:35.464
any kind of contaminants

3397
01:15:35.464 --> 01:15:36.331
from the atmosphere,

3398
01:15:36.331 --> 01:15:38.100
from getting in to our sample

3399
01:15:38.100 --> 01:15:40.619
within recovery operations

3400
01:15:40.619 --> 01:15:41.970
in those and 4 hours

3401
01:15:41.970 --> 01:15:43.088
and cleared to land

3402
01:15:43.088 --> 01:15:44.756
at the recovery site.

3403
01:15:44.756 --> 01:15:45.691
And the rest of the team

3404
01:15:45.691 --> 01:15:47.075
is closely behind,

3405
01:15:47.075 --> 01:15:48.210
ready to land

3406
01:15:48.210 --> 01:15:49.261
at the recovery site

3407
01:15:49.261 --> 01:15:51.063
to begin operations.

3408
01:15:51.063 --> 01:15:51.897
This will be

3409
01:15:51.897 --> 01:15:53.048
simultaneous action

3410
01:15:53.048 --> 01:15:53.699
that you'll see here

3411
01:15:53.699 --> 01:15:55.017
once we have the clearance

3412
01:15:55.017 --> 01:15:55.767
from Stu Wiley

3413
01:15:55.767 --> 01:15:56.368
to begin

3414
01:15:56.368 --> 01:16:03.942
our recovery operations.

3415
01:16:04.026 --> 01:16:04.343
At least

3416
01:16:04.343 --> 01:16:05.227
from this perspective, I'm

3417
01:16:05.227 --> 01:16:06.094
not noticing really

3418
01:16:06.094 --> 01:16:07.829
any drag marks

3419
01:16:07.829 --> 01:16:08.997
or any kind of roll marks,

3420
01:16:08.997 --> 01:16:09.665
but the team wants

3421
01:16:09.665 --> 01:16:10.866
the approach will mark

3422
01:16:10.866 --> 01:16:12.985
any possible areas of interest

3423
01:16:12.985 --> 01:16:13.352
where the

3424
01:16:13.352 --> 01:16:15.003
SLC possibly came in contact

3425
01:16:15.003 --> 01:16:17.522
with the rough desert terrain.

3426
01:16:17.522 --> 01:16:19.024
All of these regions will be

3427
01:16:19.024 --> 01:16:20.259
by a recovery team

3428
01:16:20.259 --> 01:16:21.360
and will be passed off

3429
01:16:21.360 --> 01:16:22.628
to the sample curation

3430
01:16:22.628 --> 01:16:23.345
team at the Johnson

3431
01:16:23.345 --> 01:16:24.596
Space Center

3432
01:16:24.596 --> 01:16:25.948
as they begin to unload

3433
01:16:25.948 --> 01:16:26.815
and actually open up the

3434
01:16:26.815 --> 01:16:29.501
sample canister there,

3435
01:16:29.585 --> 01:16:30.218
exploring the

3436
01:16:30.218 --> 01:16:31.687
contents within and making sure

3437
01:16:31.687 --> 01:16:33.305
that no possible contaminants

3438
01:16:33.305 --> 01:16:34.356
from the surrounding landing

3439
01:16:34.356 --> 01:16:38.677
location got into our sample.

3440
01:16:38.760 --> 01:16:39.811
We're getting a wider view now.

3441
01:16:39.811 --> 01:16:41.647
We should have the helicopters

3442
01:16:41.647 --> 01:16:42.447
that have landed nearby

3443
01:16:42.447 --> 01:16:47.853
coming into view potentially

3444
01:16:47.936 --> 01:16:48.270
the team

3445
01:16:48.270 --> 01:16:49.655
really taking extra precaution

3446
01:16:49.655 --> 01:16:53.208
as they approach the SIRC.

3447
01:16:53.275 --> 01:16:54.126
As I mentioned, team

3448
01:16:54.126 --> 01:16:55.377
members safety is paramount

3449
01:16:55.377 --> 01:16:56.311
during these operations.

3450
01:16:56.311 --> 01:16:58.864
There are possible

3451
01:16:58.864 --> 01:17:00.115
potential areas of concern

3452
01:17:00.115 --> 01:17:00.782
as the team begin

3453
01:17:00.782 --> 01:17:01.433
these operations,

3454
01:17:01.433 --> 01:17:03.302
including the temperature

3455
01:17:03.302 --> 01:17:04.169
of that US RCC,

3456
01:17:04.169 --> 01:17:05.287
It looks quite charred there.

3457
01:17:05.287 --> 01:17:06.054
It could still be

3458
01:17:06.054 --> 01:17:07.739
a little bit warm.

3459
01:17:07.739 --> 01:17:08.273
As I mentioned,

3460
01:17:08.273 --> 01:17:09.091
it heated up to over

3461
01:17:09.091 --> 01:17:11.310
5000 degrees Fahrenheit.

3462
01:17:11.310 --> 01:17:12.511
So as the cool desert air

3463
01:17:12.511 --> 01:17:14.646
begins to cool down that as RC,

3464
01:17:14.646 --> 01:17:15.330
we want to make sure

3465
01:17:15.330 --> 01:17:16.915
that it is cool enough

3466
01:17:16.915 --> 01:17:18.300
for our team to actually begin

3467
01:17:18.300 --> 01:17:20.702
those recovery operations.

3468
01:17:20.786 --> 01:17:21.987
We'll also be checking the

3469
01:17:21.987 --> 01:17:23.555
gas levels

3470
01:17:23.555 --> 01:17:24.323
of that

3471
01:17:24.323 --> 01:17:24.923
RC to make sure

3472
01:17:24.923 --> 01:17:26.108
that it is not outgassing

3473
01:17:26.108 --> 01:17:26.858
from the batteries

3474
01:17:26.858 --> 01:17:28.043
within heating up

3475
01:17:28.043 --> 01:17:32.230
during that reentry.

3476
01:17:32.314 --> 01:17:33.598
We'll also be making sure

3477
01:17:33.598 --> 01:17:34.833
that there is no light

3478
01:17:34.833 --> 01:17:36.935
voltage present.

3479
01:17:36.935 --> 01:17:37.986
And we see a view now

3480
01:17:37.986 --> 01:17:38.937
from our high altitude plane

3481
01:17:38.937 --> 01:17:39.604
that has visual

3482
01:17:39.604 --> 01:17:40.472
of those helicopters

3483
01:17:40.472 --> 01:17:41.123
landed nearby.

3484
01:17:41.123 --> 01:17:42.090
Just at the northern

3485
01:17:42.090 --> 01:17:42.758
part of your screen.

3486
01:17:42.758 --> 01:17:43.108
You can see

3487
01:17:43.108 --> 01:17:46.111
one of them on screen Now,

3488
01:17:46.178 --> 01:17:47.012
the top of your screen

3489
01:17:47.012 --> 01:17:48.030
there it is centered up

3490
01:17:48.030 --> 01:17:49.414
there is our helicopter.

3491
01:17:49.414 --> 01:17:50.932
It appears

3492
01:17:50.932 --> 01:17:52.801
that we have our on scene

3493
01:17:52.801 --> 01:17:53.618
commander potentially

3494
01:17:53.618 --> 01:17:58.306
walking over.

3495
01:17:58.373 --> 01:17:59.224
This is once again

3496
01:17:59.224 --> 01:18:00.125
our high altitude

3497
01:18:00.125 --> 01:18:02.077
WB 57 shot of our helicopters

3498
01:18:02.077 --> 01:18:03.695
landed at the LC

3499
01:18:03.695 --> 01:18:08.650
our landing zone

3500
01:18:08.734 --> 01:18:09.685
can see some movement

3501
01:18:09.685 --> 01:18:10.202
on the screen

3502
01:18:10.202 --> 01:18:11.286
it appears some team members

3503
01:18:11.286 --> 01:18:12.654
might be approaching our RC

3504
01:18:12.654 --> 01:18:13.505
at this point to begin

3505
01:18:13.505 --> 01:18:14.489
those recovery operations.

3506
01:18:14.489 --> 01:18:21.847
The initial safety sweep sweep

3507
01:18:21.930 --> 01:18:22.614
we'll just

3508
01:18:22.614 --> 01:18:22.914
will just

3509
01:18:22.914 --> 01:18:23.465
be observing

3510
01:18:23.465 --> 01:18:24.533
from this high altitude

3511
01:18:24.533 --> 01:18:25.650
for the next coming minutes

3512
01:18:25.650 --> 01:18:26.885
as the team

3513
01:18:26.885 --> 01:18:28.053
actually will be

3514
01:18:28.053 --> 01:18:28.804
setting up a camera

3515
01:18:28.804 --> 01:18:31.807
on the ground for us to observe

3516
01:18:31.973 --> 01:18:32.557
the recovery

3517
01:18:32.557 --> 01:18:35.544
operations close up.

3518
01:18:35.794 --> 01:18:36.144
And a note

3519
01:18:36.144 --> 01:18:37.079
from one of the team members

3520
01:18:37.079 --> 01:18:38.346
about the CRC itself.

3521
01:18:38.346 --> 01:18:39.931
So they have approximately

3522
01:18:39.931 --> 01:18:41.032
40 hours.

3523
01:18:41.032 --> 01:18:41.883
That is the amount of time

3524
01:18:41.883 --> 01:18:43.085
it would take for any air

3525
01:18:43.085 --> 01:18:45.153
to get into the sample.

3526
01:18:45.153 --> 01:18:45.687
As I mentioned

3527
01:18:45.687 --> 01:18:46.505
before, that sample

3528
01:18:46.505 --> 01:18:47.139
return capsule

3529
01:18:47.139 --> 01:18:48.840
is a complex network

3530
01:18:48.840 --> 01:18:50.075
of piping and tubing

3531
01:18:50.075 --> 01:18:51.059
inside of it,

3532
01:18:51.059 --> 01:18:52.077
sort of like a labyrinth

3533
01:18:52.077 --> 01:18:53.044
like design,

3534
01:18:53.044 --> 01:18:54.413
and that is intentional

3535
01:18:54.413 --> 01:18:55.797
to it, incredibly difficult

3536
01:18:55.797 --> 01:18:56.948
for any possible contaminants

3537
01:18:56.948 --> 01:18:57.682
from the atmosphere

3538
01:18:57.682 --> 01:18:58.467
to get into

3539
01:18:58.467 --> 01:19:00.519
our sample canister.

3540
01:19:00.519 --> 01:19:01.353
It's also sort of

3541
01:19:01.353 --> 01:19:02.521
like a nesting doll,

3542
01:19:02.521 --> 01:19:03.455
if you will,

3543
01:19:03.455 --> 01:19:04.589
where it has multiple

3544
01:19:04.589 --> 01:19:06.007
layers of protection

3545
01:19:06.007 --> 01:19:09.795
to keep that sample safe within

3546
01:19:09.878 --> 01:19:10.712
all of that protective

3547
01:19:10.712 --> 01:19:11.046
layering,

3548
01:19:11.046 --> 01:19:12.247
once we get that sample into

3549
01:19:12.247 --> 01:19:13.799
the clean room will be shed

3550
01:19:13.799 --> 01:19:14.216
and we'll be able

3551
01:19:14.216 --> 01:19:15.117
to actually access

3552
01:19:15.117 --> 01:19:25.694
that sample canister within.

3553
01:19:25.777 --> 01:19:26.344
The main goal,

3554
01:19:26.344 --> 01:19:27.279
as I said, for today,

3555
01:19:27.279 --> 01:19:28.797
is to get that sample canister

3556
01:19:28.797 --> 01:19:31.316
on a nitrogen purge

3557
01:19:31.316 --> 01:19:32.100
that is to maintain

3558
01:19:32.100 --> 01:19:33.535
its pristine nature.

3559
01:19:33.535 --> 01:19:34.986
And we have visual once again

3560
01:19:34.986 --> 01:19:35.437
from one of our

3561
01:19:35.437 --> 01:19:36.154
helicopters here

3562
01:19:36.154 --> 01:19:37.205
orbiting around

3563
01:19:37.205 --> 01:19:39.174
the landing location.

3564
01:19:39.174 --> 01:19:40.208
You can see our SIRC

3565
01:19:40.208 --> 01:19:40.642
at the bottom

3566
01:19:40.642 --> 01:19:41.376
left of your screen

3567
01:19:41.376 --> 01:19:42.210
and its parachute

3568
01:19:42.210 --> 01:19:43.028
that helped us

3569
01:19:43.028 --> 01:19:43.895
get the last leg

3570
01:19:43.895 --> 01:19:44.913
of the journey down into point

3571
01:19:44.913 --> 01:19:45.447
a little bit higher

3572
01:19:45.447 --> 01:19:46.531
than we expected.

3573
01:19:46.531 --> 01:19:49.468
20.000 feet elevation.

3574
01:19:49.468 --> 01:19:50.519
original expectation

3575
01:19:50.519 --> 01:19:53.305
was at about 5000 feet.

3576
01:19:53.305 --> 01:19:54.539
And this brought us down

3577
01:19:54.539 --> 01:19:56.675
the last leg of the journey.

3578
01:19:56.675 --> 01:19:58.827
After a punishing initial entry

3579
01:19:58.827 --> 01:19:59.728
into Earth's atmosphere

3580
01:19:59.728 --> 01:20:01.563
over San Francisco,

3581
01:20:01.646 --> 01:20:03.265
about 82 miles, an altitude

3582
01:20:03.265 --> 01:20:04.015
to now

3583
01:20:04.015 --> 01:20:05.917
laying resting

3584
01:20:05.917 --> 01:20:07.018
on the rugged Utah test

3585
01:20:07.018 --> 01:20:07.385
and training

3586
01:20:07.385 --> 01:20:21.183
range, desert floor

3587
01:20:21.266 --> 01:20:23.168
Recovery Operations

3588
01:20:23.168 --> 01:20:24.002
Recovery team

3589
01:20:24.002 --> 01:20:24.953
is in the vicinity

3590
01:20:24.953 --> 01:20:25.954
beginning the

3591
01:20:25.954 --> 01:20:28.073
initial assessments.

3592
01:20:28.073 --> 01:20:29.157
So you just heard confirmation

3593
01:20:29.157 --> 01:20:30.208
from Tim Fraser

3594
01:20:30.208 --> 01:20:31.593
that the team is beginning

3595
01:20:31.593 --> 01:20:33.478
to actually approach the CRC

3596
01:20:33.478 --> 01:20:33.745
for that

3597
01:20:33.745 --> 01:20:34.946
initial Environmental

3598
01:20:34.946 --> 01:20:37.649
and safety sweep.

3599
01:20:37.649 --> 01:20:39.067
You'll soon see our on scene,

3600
01:20:39.067 --> 01:20:39.935
Commander Otter,

3601
01:20:39.935 --> 01:20:41.186
Oscar Stu Wiley,

3602
01:20:41.186 --> 01:20:41.736
approaching

3603
01:20:41.736 --> 01:20:45.407
that sample return capsule.

3604
01:20:45.473 --> 01:20:46.358
As I mentioned before,

3605
01:20:46.358 --> 01:20:46.975
he'll be checking

3606
01:20:46.975 --> 01:20:47.909
for any possible

3607
01:20:47.909 --> 01:20:48.927
unexploded ordnance.

3608
01:20:48.927 --> 01:20:49.711
As you can see, our mission

3609
01:20:49.711 --> 01:20:51.630
operations team,

3610
01:20:51.630 --> 01:20:52.564
they have been overseeing

3611
01:20:52.564 --> 01:20:53.615
all of this morning's events

3612
01:20:53.615 --> 01:20:54.633
and they're going to

3613
01:20:54.633 --> 01:20:55.417
there we go on screen.

3614
01:20:55.417 --> 01:20:56.885
You can see front and center

3615
01:20:56.885 --> 01:20:57.652
there, Stu Wiley,

3616
01:20:57.652 --> 01:20:58.537
our onsite scene commander.

3617
01:20:58.537 --> 01:20:59.254
And right behind him

3618
01:20:59.254 --> 01:21:00.038
is Victoria Team.

3619
01:21:00.038 --> 01:21:01.172
They're both wearing personal

3620
01:21:01.172 --> 01:21:01.923
protective equipment,

3621
01:21:01.923 --> 01:21:03.124
gas masks.

3622
01:21:03.124 --> 01:21:04.075
That's for their own safety

3623
01:21:04.075 --> 01:21:05.193
as they approach

3624
01:21:05.193 --> 01:21:06.127
as there could be

3625
01:21:06.127 --> 01:21:07.178
potential outgassing

3626
01:21:07.178 --> 01:21:08.013
from that sample return

3627
01:21:08.013 --> 01:21:09.064
capsule's batteries

3628
01:21:09.064 --> 01:21:11.316
heating up during reentry

3629
01:21:11.316 --> 01:21:11.850
can see him

3630
01:21:11.850 --> 01:21:12.567
scanning the region.

3631
01:21:12.567 --> 01:21:13.268
He's checking for

3632
01:21:13.268 --> 01:21:14.603
any possible unexploded

3633
01:21:14.603 --> 01:21:15.804
ordnance as UXO

3634
01:21:15.804 --> 01:21:17.756
recovery operations.

3635
01:21:17.756 --> 01:21:18.907
Oscar's performing the

3636
01:21:18.907 --> 01:21:22.143
Unexploded Ordnance survey,

3637
01:21:22.227 --> 01:21:22.827
and you just heard

3638
01:21:22.827 --> 01:21:23.395
that he is

3639
01:21:23.395 --> 01:21:24.362
in fact doing that survey

3640
01:21:24.362 --> 01:21:25.463
right now, you can see him

3641
01:21:25.463 --> 01:21:26.698
walking around the SIRC.

3642
01:21:26.698 --> 01:21:27.632
This is the first person

3643
01:21:27.632 --> 01:21:28.316
to come in contact

3644
01:21:28.316 --> 01:21:29.067
with this SIRC

3645
01:21:29.067 --> 01:21:29.935
since it was on the

3646
01:21:29.935 --> 01:21:32.938
other side of the solar system.

3647
01:21:32.971 --> 01:21:34.472
We had this on a long journey.

3648
01:21:34.472 --> 01:21:35.006
It was science, right?

3649
01:21:35.006 --> 01:21:36.758
Spacecraft

3650
01:21:36.758 --> 01:21:37.792
finally delivering the sample.

3651
01:21:37.792 --> 01:21:38.460
He is

3652
01:21:38.460 --> 01:21:39.127
motioning over

3653
01:21:39.127 --> 01:21:39.844
to Victoria team,

3654
01:21:39.844 --> 01:21:41.363
who is surely going to approach

3655
01:21:41.363 --> 01:21:42.597
and begin taking some gas

3656
01:21:42.597 --> 01:21:43.565
and thermal readings.

3657
01:21:43.565 --> 01:21:44.583
You can see her walking over

3658
01:21:44.583 --> 01:21:45.600
and must

3659
01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:46.618
have given the clear

3660
01:21:46.618 --> 01:21:50.355
for her to proceed

3661
01:21:50.438 --> 01:21:51.756
a little bit closer.

3662
01:21:51.756 --> 01:21:52.440
Stu continues

3663
01:21:52.440 --> 01:21:53.158
to pace around

3664
01:21:53.158 --> 01:21:55.043
the surrounding area.

3665
01:21:55.043 --> 01:21:55.777
All over here,

3666
01:21:55.777 --> 01:21:56.995
the team will collect samples.

3667
01:21:56.995 --> 01:21:58.413
He'll begin to place flags

3668
01:21:58.413 --> 01:21:59.464
you can see in his backpack

3669
01:21:59.464 --> 01:22:00.632
he's got a couple of flags

3670
01:22:00.632 --> 01:22:02.017
waving in the breeze.

3671
01:22:02.017 --> 01:22:02.918
Those will be placed

3672
01:22:02.918 --> 01:22:04.202
at areas of interest

3673
01:22:04.202 --> 01:22:05.604
for our team members to sample

3674
01:22:05.604 --> 01:22:06.688
once they arrive and begin

3675
01:22:06.688 --> 01:22:10.842
this recovery operations.

3676
01:22:10.926 --> 01:22:12.294
Victoria is now

3677
01:22:12.294 --> 01:22:14.212
appearing to take out her

3678
01:22:14.212 --> 01:22:15.146
thermal and gas

3679
01:22:15.146 --> 01:22:16.615
reading devices.

3680
01:22:16.615 --> 01:22:17.966
She's taking an initial thermal

3681
01:22:17.966 --> 01:22:18.633
reading of that.

3682
01:22:18.633 --> 01:22:20.335
As far as we speak,

3683
01:22:20.335 --> 01:22:20.819
looking for it

3684
01:22:20.819 --> 01:22:20.969
to be

3685
01:22:20.969 --> 01:22:22.103
at an operational temperature

3686
01:22:22.103 --> 01:22:23.338
of around 100 degrees.

3687
01:22:23.338 --> 01:22:23.972
Variations.

3688
01:22:23.972 --> 01:22:24.389
Lockheed

3689
01:22:24.389 --> 01:22:26.074
Martin Safety is performing

3690
01:22:26.074 --> 01:22:26.558
hazardous

3691
01:22:26.558 --> 01:22:28.043
environment assessments.

3692
01:22:28.043 --> 01:22:28.777
And you just heard

3693
01:22:28.777 --> 01:22:29.577
that confirmation.

3694
01:22:29.577 --> 01:22:30.578
So she is

3695
01:22:30.578 --> 01:22:31.496
performing that hazardous

3696
01:22:31.496 --> 01:22:32.430
environment assessment

3697
01:22:32.430 --> 01:22:32.847
checking the

3698
01:22:32.847 --> 01:22:33.782
thermal temperature

3699
01:22:33.782 --> 01:22:35.517
of that SIRC,

3700
01:22:35.517 --> 01:22:36.418
as well as taking

3701
01:22:36.418 --> 01:22:37.135
any kind of gas

3702
01:22:37.135 --> 01:22:37.769
readings to make sure

3703
01:22:37.769 --> 01:22:39.304
that we are at safe

3704
01:22:39.304 --> 01:22:40.138
operational levels.

3705
01:22:40.138 --> 01:22:44.109
She is also leaning over.

3706
01:22:44.109 --> 01:22:44.943
This is Victoria,

3707
01:22:44.943 --> 01:22:48.913
a team from Lockheed Martin.

3708
01:22:48.997 --> 01:22:50.198
Stu continues to sweep

3709
01:22:50.198 --> 01:22:52.200
the area around her

3710
01:22:52.200 --> 01:22:53.885
for the safe

3711
01:22:53.885 --> 01:22:55.353
operation of our recovery

3712
01:22:55.353 --> 01:23:10.068
crew members.

3713
01:23:10.135 --> 01:23:11.586
There are several

3714
01:23:11.586 --> 01:23:12.754
nozzles of valves

3715
01:23:12.754 --> 01:23:13.888
around the SIRC,

3716
01:23:13.888 --> 01:23:14.606
and so

3717
01:23:14.606 --> 01:23:15.573
once Victoria has

3718
01:23:15.573 --> 01:23:16.257
the clear approach,

3719
01:23:16.257 --> 01:23:17.125
she'll actually open up

3720
01:23:17.125 --> 01:23:18.360
some of those valves

3721
01:23:18.360 --> 01:23:19.027
and insert

3722
01:23:19.027 --> 01:23:21.563
a gas reading device within

3723
01:23:21.563 --> 01:23:22.914
to actually take

3724
01:23:22.914 --> 01:23:23.348
some temperatures.

3725
01:23:23.348 --> 01:23:24.115
And you can see off

3726
01:23:24.115 --> 01:23:25.617
to the left of your screen,

3727
01:23:25.617 --> 01:23:27.118
Stu Wiley is actually saving

3728
01:23:27.118 --> 01:23:28.403
and stowing away that parachute

3729
01:23:28.403 --> 01:23:29.371
that helped us to

3730
01:23:29.371 --> 01:23:32.440
the last leg of the journey.

3731
01:23:32.524 --> 01:23:33.024
It's great news

3732
01:23:33.024 --> 01:23:33.324
that that

3733
01:23:33.324 --> 01:23:36.127
disconnected from the CRC

3734
01:23:36.127 --> 01:23:37.829
and allowed our see to rest

3735
01:23:37.829 --> 01:23:38.613
as it is now

3736
01:23:38.613 --> 01:23:39.698
here on the surface

3737
01:23:39.698 --> 01:23:40.315
of the Utah test

3738
01:23:40.315 --> 01:23:41.783
and training range,

3739
01:23:41.783 --> 01:23:42.233
it appears

3740
01:23:42.233 --> 01:23:43.651
with minimal dragging

3741
01:23:43.651 --> 01:23:45.870
recovery operations,

3742
01:23:45.870 --> 01:23:47.138
Oscar is saving

3743
01:23:47.138 --> 01:23:49.224
and storing the main parachute.

3744
01:23:49.224 --> 01:23:50.341
So Stu is going to get

3745
01:23:50.341 --> 01:23:52.293
that parachute stowed

3746
01:23:52.293 --> 01:23:53.828
placed away

3747
01:23:53.828 --> 01:23:55.563
as Victoria is front center

3748
01:23:55.563 --> 01:23:56.064
on your screen,

3749
01:23:56.064 --> 01:23:56.664
beginning to take

3750
01:23:56.664 --> 01:23:57.265
some of those gas

3751
01:23:57.265 --> 01:23:57.982
readings to make sure

3752
01:23:57.982 --> 01:23:59.067
that we are not outgassing

3753
01:23:59.067 --> 01:24:01.352
any kind of noxious chemicals

3754
01:24:01.352 --> 01:24:02.103
that could be present

3755
01:24:02.103 --> 01:24:02.887
from that battery

3756
01:24:02.887 --> 01:24:11.763
heating up within the CRC.

3757
01:24:11.846 --> 01:24:12.847
And Stu is walking

3758
01:24:12.847 --> 01:24:14.065
back to the team

3759
01:24:14.065 --> 01:24:15.967
with that parachute.

3760
01:24:15.967 --> 01:24:17.469
So the SNC battery is comprised

3761
01:24:17.469 --> 01:24:18.603
of lithium disulfide

3762
01:24:18.603 --> 01:24:19.621
and as such,

3763
01:24:19.621 --> 01:24:20.188
the possibility

3764
01:24:20.188 --> 01:24:21.573
of toxic vapors exist

3765
01:24:21.573 --> 01:24:22.507
if the battery packaging

3766
01:24:22.507 --> 01:24:23.274
has been damaged during

3767
01:24:23.274 --> 01:24:24.993
entry or landing,

3768
01:24:25.076 --> 01:24:26.694
discharging could cause a

3769
01:24:26.694 --> 01:24:27.746
potential presence

3770
01:24:27.746 --> 01:24:28.680
of hydrogen sulfide

3771
01:24:28.680 --> 01:24:29.314
from those batteries

3772
01:24:29.314 --> 01:24:31.583
heating up or carbon monoxide.

3773
01:24:31.583 --> 01:24:32.851
And so that is why Victoria

3774
01:24:32.851 --> 01:24:34.536
initially had her gas mask on.

3775
01:24:34.536 --> 01:24:34.886
It appears

3776
01:24:34.886 --> 01:24:35.754
she is now

3777
01:24:35.754 --> 01:24:36.538
actually taking it off.

3778
01:24:36.538 --> 01:24:37.172
So it appears that

3779
01:24:37.172 --> 01:24:38.273
the gas readings

3780
01:24:38.273 --> 01:24:38.923
indicate

3781
01:24:38.923 --> 01:24:40.408
nominal conditions,

3782
01:24:40.408 --> 01:24:42.293
recovery operations, Lockheed

3783
01:24:42.293 --> 01:24:43.828
Martin safety has confirmed

3784
01:24:43.828 --> 01:24:44.996
no hazardous gas

3785
01:24:44.996 --> 01:24:45.563
and you just heard

3786
01:24:45.563 --> 01:24:46.231
that confirmation.

3787
01:24:46.231 --> 01:24:47.782
So the safety assessment

3788
01:24:47.782 --> 01:24:48.833
is successful.

3789
01:24:48.833 --> 01:24:50.368
Victoria has confirmed that

3790
01:24:50.368 --> 01:24:51.336
with her gas readings

3791
01:24:51.336 --> 01:24:51.953
and thermal

3792
01:24:51.953 --> 01:24:54.956
measurements of the CRC to to

3793
01:24:54.956 --> 01:24:55.807
then go back over

3794
01:24:55.807 --> 01:24:56.674
Stu and Victoria

3795
01:24:56.674 --> 01:24:58.259
for a team huddle

3796
01:24:58.259 --> 01:24:59.310
to prepare the rest of the team

3797
01:24:59.310 --> 01:24:59.644
to begin

3798
01:24:59.644 --> 01:25:00.845
the recovery operations

3799
01:25:00.845 --> 01:25:02.363
and actually get this SNC

3800
01:25:02.363 --> 01:25:03.298
into our clean room

3801
01:25:03.298 --> 01:25:04.382
here at Dugway

3802
01:25:04.382 --> 01:25:05.283
and continue the operations.

3803
01:25:05.283 --> 01:25:05.934
You can see the Lockheed

3804
01:25:05.934 --> 01:25:06.684
Martin team on the bottom

3805
01:25:06.684 --> 01:25:07.619
left of your screen

3806
01:25:07.619 --> 01:25:08.436
just overjoyed

3807
01:25:08.436 --> 01:25:09.938
with this moment.

3808
01:25:09.938 --> 01:25:11.489
This is years of careful

3809
01:25:11.489 --> 01:25:12.957
planning and preparation

3810
01:25:12.957 --> 01:25:14.309
leading to this final phase

3811
01:25:14.309 --> 01:25:15.210
of getting that sample

3812
01:25:15.210 --> 01:25:20.799
back here to our clean rooms.

3813
01:25:20.882 --> 01:25:21.633
I'm sure they've been holding

3814
01:25:21.633 --> 01:25:22.467
their breath all morning,

3815
01:25:22.467 --> 01:25:23.768
so they're getting closer

3816
01:25:23.768 --> 01:25:24.235
to finally

3817
01:25:24.235 --> 01:25:24.636
being able

3818
01:25:24.636 --> 01:25:26.254
to take another breath

3819
01:25:26.254 --> 01:25:26.888
and relax

3820
01:25:26.888 --> 01:25:28.206
as we actually will begin

3821
01:25:28.206 --> 01:25:29.124
our recovery operations.

3822
01:25:29.124 --> 01:25:32.627
A key part of today's events.

3823
01:25:32.694 --> 01:25:33.228
And you might see

3824
01:25:33.228 --> 01:25:34.028
a victory approach

3825
01:25:34.028 --> 01:25:35.096
over and over once again

3826
01:25:35.096 --> 01:25:36.114
to that as our key

3827
01:25:36.114 --> 01:25:36.514
to continue

3828
01:25:36.514 --> 01:25:37.298
to take gas readings.

3829
01:25:37.298 --> 01:25:37.732
At this point,

3830
01:25:37.732 --> 01:25:38.733
she appears to be

3831
01:25:38.733 --> 01:25:42.137
up the back shell of that CRC,

3832
01:25:42.203 --> 01:25:50.378
placing a Teflon cover over.

3833
01:25:50.461 --> 01:25:51.713
This is where the parachute

3834
01:25:51.713 --> 01:25:52.530
actually deployed

3835
01:25:52.530 --> 01:25:54.966
at the top of the CRC capsule.

3836
01:25:54.966 --> 01:25:55.466
The sample return

3837
01:25:55.466 --> 01:26:00.305
capsule, another.

3838
01:26:00.388 --> 01:26:01.256
She'll also be checking

3839
01:26:01.256 --> 01:26:03.691
for any possible light voltage

3840
01:26:03.691 --> 01:26:04.108
and we'll wrap

3841
01:26:04.108 --> 01:26:05.093
kept on tape around

3842
01:26:05.093 --> 01:26:06.127
the two cut cable ends

3843
01:26:06.127 --> 01:26:07.212
protruding from the back of the

3844
01:26:07.212 --> 01:26:07.762
yes or see where

3845
01:26:07.762 --> 01:26:08.513
that parachute deployed.

3846
01:26:08.513 --> 01:26:09.030
You can see her

3847
01:26:09.030 --> 01:26:10.148
with that covering

3848
01:26:10.148 --> 01:26:10.748
as we speak,

3849
01:26:10.748 --> 01:26:19.958
placing it on the back. She'll

3850
01:26:20.041 --> 01:26:20.308
and she

3851
01:26:20.308 --> 01:26:23.311
has successfully placed that

3852
01:26:23.378 --> 01:26:24.279
shielding on the back

3853
01:26:24.279 --> 01:26:26.397
of the Teflon cover,

3854
01:26:26.397 --> 01:26:28.716
still walking around behind,

3855
01:26:28.716 --> 01:26:30.118
checking

3856
01:26:30.118 --> 01:26:30.935
the rest of the seam,

3857
01:26:30.935 --> 01:26:32.003
walking back with the parachute

3858
01:26:32.003 --> 01:26:32.937
that he now

3859
01:26:32.937 --> 01:26:38.593
has safely stowed away.

3860
01:26:38.676 --> 01:26:39.577
And you'll see Victoria

3861
01:26:39.577 --> 01:26:40.528
opening up a couple of gas

3862
01:26:40.528 --> 01:26:41.913
valves on the CRC,

3863
01:26:41.913 --> 01:26:43.331
taking those gas readings.

3864
01:26:43.331 --> 01:26:44.215
She'll continue to do this

3865
01:26:44.215 --> 01:26:46.134
throughout the whole process.

3866
01:26:46.134 --> 01:26:47.035
She's also placing

3867
01:26:47.035 --> 01:26:48.503
covers on those gas vents to

3868
01:26:48.503 --> 01:26:50.288
to prevent any kind of

3869
01:26:50.288 --> 01:26:50.972
contamination

3870
01:26:50.972 --> 01:26:52.624
from atmospheric particles,

3871
01:26:52.624 --> 01:26:53.608
particles, particulates

3872
01:26:53.608 --> 01:26:59.647
entering into that AC

3873
01:26:59.731 --> 01:27:00.632
She's photographing

3874
01:27:00.632 --> 01:27:01.382
the scene as well, too.

3875
01:27:01.382 --> 01:27:03.418
This is to

3876
01:27:03.418 --> 01:27:04.118
keep careful

3877
01:27:04.118 --> 01:27:05.553
note of exactly the procedures

3878
01:27:05.553 --> 01:27:05.887
that she's

3879
01:27:05.887 --> 01:27:12.610
going through for her team.

3880
01:27:12.694 --> 01:27:13.778
So the recovery operations

3881
01:27:13.778 --> 01:27:14.312
will be getting

3882
01:27:14.312 --> 01:27:15.663
underway shortly

3883
01:27:15.663 --> 01:27:17.432
now that the team has conducted

3884
01:27:17.432 --> 01:27:18.483
their initial environmental

3885
01:27:18.483 --> 01:27:20.018
and safety sweep,

3886
01:27:20.018 --> 01:27:20.818
everything appears

3887
01:27:20.818 --> 01:27:21.269
to be nominal,

3888
01:27:21.269 --> 01:27:22.203
which is fantastic.

3889
01:27:22.203 --> 01:27:23.221
We do, in fact

3890
01:27:23.221 --> 01:27:24.122
have the necessary

3891
01:27:24.122 --> 01:27:25.173
on the ground.

3892
01:27:25.173 --> 01:27:25.974
The rest of the team

3893
01:27:25.974 --> 01:27:27.659
will be approaching shortly.

3894
01:27:27.659 --> 01:27:29.160
But for now, back to you.

3895
01:27:29.160 --> 01:27:31.813
Lauren Engine.

3896
01:27:31.896 --> 01:27:32.513
Wow.

3897
01:27:32.513 --> 01:27:34.766
Thank you, James.

3898
01:27:34.766 --> 01:27:36.534
Oh, can you believe it?

3899
01:27:36.534 --> 01:27:38.886
And she touched down

3900
01:27:38.886 --> 01:27:40.772
for science.

3901
01:27:40.772 --> 01:27:41.873
What a great day

3902
01:27:41.873 --> 01:27:42.807
for the folks at home.

3903
01:27:42.807 --> 01:27:45.059
This is a huge deal.

3904
01:27:45.059 --> 01:27:46.077
A huge deal.

3905
01:27:46.077 --> 01:27:47.395
And they did it

3906
01:27:47.395 --> 01:27:48.896
for the first time in history.

3907
01:27:48.896 --> 01:27:50.999
We brought goodies back home

3908
01:27:50.999 --> 01:27:52.467
from this kind of object

3909
01:27:52.467 --> 01:27:54.185
in the history of humanity.

3910
01:27:54.185 --> 01:27:55.653
So this is big.

3911
01:27:55.653 --> 01:27:56.704
This is so huge.

3912
01:27:56.704 --> 01:27:57.572
And we're all breathing

3913
01:27:57.572 --> 01:27:58.222
a big sigh of relief.

3914
01:27:58.222 --> 01:27:58.656
Obviously,

3915
01:27:58.656 --> 01:27:59.340
we're not completely

3916
01:27:59.340 --> 01:27:59.874
out of the woods here

3917
01:27:59.874 --> 01:28:01.075
and we'll be monitoring

3918
01:28:01.075 --> 01:28:02.160
what's going on and keeping

3919
01:28:02.160 --> 01:28:03.061
you abreast of everything

3920
01:28:03.061 --> 01:28:03.962
that's happening.

3921
01:28:03.962 --> 01:28:05.797
But for now, wow,

3922
01:28:05.797 --> 01:28:07.382
we made it all a great job

3923
01:28:07.382 --> 01:28:08.516
by that Lockheed team.

3924
01:28:08.516 --> 01:28:10.134
Same thing, that crowd tastic.

3925
01:28:10.134 --> 01:28:11.219
What a spacecraft.

3926
01:28:11.219 --> 01:28:12.537
We have to name our specialty.

3927
01:28:12.537 --> 01:28:13.288
Yes, absolutely.

3928
01:28:13.288 --> 01:28:13.988
In that capsule,

3929
01:28:13.988 --> 01:28:15.356
everything perfect.

3930
01:28:15.356 --> 01:28:16.140
So while the capsule

3931
01:28:16.140 --> 01:28:16.824
was making its way

3932
01:28:16.824 --> 01:28:17.275
to the ground

3933
01:28:17.275 --> 01:28:18.926
mission invasions,

3934
01:28:18.926 --> 01:28:21.329
all those covers are in place.

3935
01:28:21.329 --> 01:28:22.297
All right, All right.

3936
01:28:22.297 --> 01:28:22.981
So we're making good.

3937
01:28:22.981 --> 01:28:23.965
We're making progress.

3938
01:28:23.965 --> 01:28:24.332
All right.

3939
01:28:24.332 --> 01:28:25.783
So while the capsule

3940
01:28:25.783 --> 01:28:26.284
was making its way

3941
01:28:26.284 --> 01:28:26.634
to the ground,

3942
01:28:26.634 --> 01:28:27.418
mission teams,

3943
01:28:27.418 --> 01:28:28.653
the Colorado control room

3944
01:28:28.653 --> 01:28:29.304
at the end,

3945
01:28:29.304 --> 01:28:30.655
the mission ops area here

3946
01:28:30.655 --> 01:28:32.256
in Utah were, of course,

3947
01:28:32.256 --> 01:28:34.475
riveted by the live images.

3948
01:28:34.475 --> 01:28:35.693
These teams have watched

3949
01:28:35.693 --> 01:28:36.778
and nurtured this mission

3950
01:28:36.778 --> 01:28:38.062
for more than seven

3951
01:28:38.062 --> 01:28:39.781
years of spaceflight

3952
01:28:39.781 --> 01:28:41.332
and even longer in terms

3953
01:28:41.332 --> 01:28:43.901
of construction and design.

3954
01:28:43.985 --> 01:28:44.319
Wow.

3955
01:28:44.319 --> 01:28:44.852
Amazing.

3956
01:28:44.852 --> 01:28:45.720
11 years since

3957
01:28:45.720 --> 01:28:48.056
it was selected to fly.

3958
01:28:48.056 --> 01:28:49.073
What a job, folks.

3959
01:28:49.073 --> 01:28:50.041
Just fantastic.

3960
01:28:50.041 --> 01:28:50.608
A lot's happened

3961
01:28:50.608 --> 01:28:52.110
in seven years.

3962
01:28:52.110 --> 01:28:52.343
All right.

3963
01:28:52.343 --> 01:28:53.428
So let's get an update

3964
01:28:53.428 --> 01:28:53.795
from where

3965
01:28:53.795 --> 01:28:54.395
the action

3966
01:28:54.395 --> 01:28:55.413
started this morning.

3967
01:28:55.413 --> 01:29:00.852
Sophia, tell us everything.

3968
01:29:00.935 --> 01:29:01.703
Okay.

3969
01:29:01.703 --> 01:29:02.854
Let me firstly,

3970
01:29:02.854 --> 01:29:03.388
I want to say

3971
01:29:03.388 --> 01:29:05.073
we are so grateful

3972
01:29:05.073 --> 01:29:06.207
that the capsule

3973
01:29:06.207 --> 01:29:07.108
is on the ground

3974
01:29:07.108 --> 01:29:08.876
and in good hands now.

3975
01:29:08.876 --> 01:29:09.544
Now, from here,

3976
01:29:09.544 --> 01:29:10.895
from Wig Mountain,

3977
01:29:10.895 --> 01:29:13.598
I'm overlooking the vast

3978
01:29:13.598 --> 01:29:14.632
landing zone,

3979
01:29:14.632 --> 01:29:15.783
which again

3980
01:29:15.783 --> 01:29:16.868
is larger

3981
01:29:16.868 --> 01:29:19.103
than the state of Rhode Island.

3982
01:29:19.103 --> 01:29:20.972
So during that time,

3983
01:29:20.972 --> 01:29:22.073
listening to James's

3984
01:29:22.073 --> 01:29:24.008
commentary of the capsule

3985
01:29:24.008 --> 01:29:25.643
coming through the atmosphere,

3986
01:29:25.643 --> 01:29:26.728
we were all standing

3987
01:29:26.728 --> 01:29:27.512
on the edge here

3988
01:29:27.512 --> 01:29:28.713
looking and scanning

3989
01:29:28.713 --> 01:29:29.814
through the sky.

3990
01:29:29.814 --> 01:29:30.548
But just to give you

3991
01:29:30.548 --> 01:29:31.315
some context,

3992
01:29:31.315 --> 01:29:32.367
again of where I am, I'm

3993
01:29:32.367 --> 01:29:34.502
about 4000 feet up

3994
01:29:34.502 --> 01:29:36.354
overlooking a vast,

3995
01:29:36.354 --> 01:29:37.955
ancient seabed.

3996
01:29:37.955 --> 01:29:39.323
So the mountains

3997
01:29:39.323 --> 01:29:40.558
that are peppering along

3998
01:29:40.558 --> 01:29:41.943
the edges over here,

3999
01:29:41.943 --> 01:29:43.745
they are very muted colors.

4000
01:29:43.745 --> 01:29:45.413
It's a beautiful pastel

4001
01:29:45.413 --> 01:29:46.264
out there.

4002
01:29:46.264 --> 01:29:47.548
And as we're looking over

4003
01:29:47.548 --> 01:29:49.016
through the sky,

4004
01:29:49.016 --> 01:29:50.134
it's hard to see

4005
01:29:50.134 --> 01:29:51.602
because there's alkaline

4006
01:29:51.602 --> 01:29:53.821
dust from this ancient seabed.

4007
01:29:53.821 --> 01:29:54.872
And considering

4008
01:29:54.872 --> 01:29:56.974
that the capsule has landed

4009
01:29:56.974 --> 01:29:58.743
on the edge of the landing,

4010
01:29:58.743 --> 01:30:00.211
even though I'm as close

4011
01:30:00.211 --> 01:30:01.946
as I could possibly be,

4012
01:30:01.946 --> 01:30:02.613
I didn't see

4013
01:30:02.613 --> 01:30:03.664
anything over here.

4014
01:30:03.664 --> 01:30:04.115
I will say

4015
01:30:04.115 --> 01:30:05.183
I'm a little disappointed,

4016
01:30:05.183 --> 01:30:06.334
but grateful

4017
01:30:06.334 --> 01:30:07.718
that that capsule is

4018
01:30:07.718 --> 01:30:09.754
in the most capable hands

4019
01:30:09.754 --> 01:30:10.688
it can be,

4020
01:30:10.688 --> 01:30:11.572
and that is the most

4021
01:30:11.572 --> 01:30:12.757
important thing out here.

4022
01:30:12.757 --> 01:30:13.925
So while I didn't see

4023
01:30:13.925 --> 01:30:15.276
with my eyes

4024
01:30:15.276 --> 01:30:16.077
myself,

4025
01:30:16.077 --> 01:30:17.962
we saw it on the screen and.

4026
01:30:17.962 --> 01:30:19.714
It's still a great day.

4027
01:30:19.714 --> 01:30:21.682
So back to you, Lauren.

4028
01:30:21.682 --> 01:30:22.950
Wow. Thank you, Sophia.

4029
01:30:22.950 --> 01:30:23.584
And thankfully,

4030
01:30:23.584 --> 01:30:24.902
we got that great image

4031
01:30:24.902 --> 01:30:26.220
from the NASA helicopter.

4032
01:30:26.220 --> 01:30:27.455
Just well done to that team.

4033
01:30:27.455 --> 01:30:28.623
Thank You for that.

4034
01:30:28.623 --> 01:30:29.857
So while we're keeping an eye

4035
01:30:29.857 --> 01:30:31.142
on ongoing operations

4036
01:30:31.142 --> 01:30:32.577
to prep for the

4037
01:30:32.577 --> 01:30:33.845
FARC transport,

4038
01:30:33.845 --> 01:30:35.163
we have a special message

4039
01:30:35.163 --> 01:30:35.646
from someone

4040
01:30:35.646 --> 01:30:36.848
who keeps a close eye

4041
01:30:36.848 --> 01:30:38.516
on the entire manifest

4042
01:30:38.516 --> 01:30:39.867
of the space agency's

4043
01:30:39.867 --> 01:30:40.735
travels around

4044
01:30:40.735 --> 01:30:43.421
the solar system.

4045
01:30:43.504 --> 01:30:44.305
Hey, everybody.

4046
01:30:44.305 --> 01:30:46.224
Congratulations

4047
01:30:46.224 --> 01:30:49.110
to the Osiris-rex team.

4048
01:30:49.110 --> 01:30:50.645
You did it,

4049
01:30:50.645 --> 01:30:53.498
You designed it, you built it,

4050
01:30:53.498 --> 01:30:54.715
and you carried out

4051
01:30:54.715 --> 01:30:56.067
the first mission

4052
01:30:56.067 --> 01:30:56.667
to collect

4053
01:30:56.667 --> 01:30:59.454
a sample from an asteroid.

4054
01:30:59.454 --> 01:31:02.406
And after a two year journey,

4055
01:31:02.406 --> 01:31:05.009
it has touched down at the Utah

4056
01:31:05.009 --> 01:31:06.811
desert.

4057
01:31:06.811 --> 01:31:08.012
It brought something

4058
01:31:08.012 --> 01:31:08.996
extraordinary.

4059
01:31:08.996 --> 01:31:10.081
The largest

4060
01:31:10.081 --> 01:31:11.816
asteroid sample

4061
01:31:11.816 --> 01:31:13.985
ever received on Earth.

4062
01:31:13.985 --> 01:31:15.536
It's going to help scientists

4063
01:31:15.536 --> 01:31:17.405
investigate planet formation.

4064
01:31:17.405 --> 01:31:18.573
It's going to improve

4065
01:31:18.573 --> 01:31:19.524
our understanding

4066
01:31:19.524 --> 01:31:21.309
of the asteroids

4067
01:31:21.309 --> 01:31:22.343
that could possibly

4068
01:31:22.343 --> 01:31:24.028
impact the earth,

4069
01:31:24.028 --> 01:31:25.046
and it'll deepen

4070
01:31:25.046 --> 01:31:26.013
our understanding

4071
01:31:26.013 --> 01:31:27.098
of the origin

4072
01:31:27.098 --> 01:31:28.799
of our solar system

4073
01:31:28.799 --> 01:31:30.685
in its formation.

4074
01:31:30.685 --> 01:31:32.336
This mission proves

4075
01:31:32.336 --> 01:31:35.339
NASA does big things,

4076
01:31:35.523 --> 01:31:36.624
things that inspire

4077
01:31:36.624 --> 01:31:37.208
us, things

4078
01:31:37.208 --> 01:31:38.459
that unite US

4079
01:31:38.459 --> 01:31:40.027
recovery operations.

4080
01:31:40.027 --> 01:31:42.713
We're convinced that the 13

4081
01:31:42.713 --> 01:31:45.666
reached reach

4082
01:31:45.666 --> 01:31:47.368
and the mission continues

4083
01:31:47.368 --> 01:31:48.870
with incredible science

4084
01:31:48.870 --> 01:31:51.706
and analysis going to come.

4085
01:31:51.772 --> 01:31:54.175
But I want to thank you all

4086
01:31:54.175 --> 01:31:55.493
for everybody

4087
01:31:55.493 --> 01:31:56.694
that made this

4088
01:31:56.694 --> 01:32:01.599
Osiris-rex mission possible.

4089
01:32:01.682 --> 01:32:04.685
It wasn't Mission impossible.

4090
01:32:04.735 --> 01:32:06.904
It was the impossible

4091
01:32:06.904 --> 01:32:09.724
became possible.

4092
01:32:09.724 --> 01:32:11.976
Thank you all.

4093
01:32:11.976 --> 01:32:13.110
And just as a reminder,

4094
01:32:13.110 --> 01:32:14.245
we are keeping those

4095
01:32:14.245 --> 01:32:15.997
operational milestones going.

4096
01:32:15.997 --> 01:32:17.198
So you will continue to hear

4097
01:32:17.198 --> 01:32:18.716
that throughout the broadcast.

4098
01:32:18.716 --> 01:32:19.233
Thankfully,

4099
01:32:19.233 --> 01:32:20.735
the SNC was breached.

4100
01:32:20.735 --> 01:32:23.154
Fantastic, fantastic news.

4101
01:32:23.154 --> 01:32:23.521
All right.

4102
01:32:23.521 --> 01:32:24.539
As anyone who pays

4103
01:32:24.539 --> 01:32:26.040
just even a little attention

4104
01:32:26.040 --> 01:32:27.608
to modern spaceflight knows

4105
01:32:27.608 --> 01:32:28.676
there has been more activity

4106
01:32:28.676 --> 01:32:29.460
above the planet

4107
01:32:29.460 --> 01:32:30.244
in recent years

4108
01:32:30.244 --> 01:32:31.112
than ever before

4109
01:32:31.112 --> 01:32:32.663
in human history.

4110
01:32:32.663 --> 01:32:33.214
There are probes

4111
01:32:33.214 --> 01:32:34.148
like Osiris-rex

4112
01:32:34.148 --> 01:32:35.783
moving around the Solar System

4113
01:32:35.783 --> 01:32:36.601
Observatory,

4114
01:32:36.601 --> 01:32:38.252
looking out into deep space

4115
01:32:38.252 --> 01:32:39.053
and satellites

4116
01:32:39.053 --> 01:32:40.538
closely examining the health

4117
01:32:40.538 --> 01:32:42.323
and future of our own planet.

4118
01:32:42.323 --> 01:32:45.126
There are also human explorers

4119
01:32:45.126 --> 01:32:46.627
and we are so fortunate

4120
01:32:46.627 --> 01:32:47.762
to have two of them

4121
01:32:47.762 --> 01:32:49.046
with us here today.

4122
01:32:49.046 --> 01:32:49.680
Joining us now

4123
01:32:49.680 --> 01:32:51.065
are NASA's astronauts, Butch

4124
01:32:51.065 --> 01:32:52.733
Wilmore and Sonny Williams,

4125
01:32:52.733 --> 01:32:54.151
scheduled to launch on Boeing's

4126
01:32:54.151 --> 01:32:54.936
crewed flight test

4127
01:32:54.936 --> 01:32:55.953
aboard Starliner

4128
01:32:55.953 --> 01:32:57.004
to the International Space

4129
01:32:57.004 --> 01:32:57.838
Station.

4130
01:32:57.838 --> 01:32:58.923
Butch and Sunny,

4131
01:32:58.923 --> 01:33:00.925
thank for joining us

4132
01:33:00.925 --> 01:33:02.043
on the honor.

4133
01:33:02.043 --> 01:33:04.528
Super exciting day three.

4134
01:33:04.528 --> 01:33:05.646
Absolutely historic.

4135
01:33:05.646 --> 01:33:07.365
How are you feeling?

4136
01:33:07.448 --> 01:33:08.115
Pretty amazing.

4137
01:33:08.115 --> 01:33:08.933
It's like, wow,

4138
01:33:08.933 --> 01:33:10.585
this is what, you know, dreams

4139
01:33:10.585 --> 01:33:12.787
and imagination is fueled with.

4140
01:33:12.787 --> 01:33:13.854
This is just amazing.

4141
01:33:13.854 --> 01:33:15.573
So you can go from the movies,

4142
01:33:15.573 --> 01:33:16.707
but this is reality.

4143
01:33:16.707 --> 01:33:17.758
And we're doing things

4144
01:33:17.758 --> 01:33:19.126
that people couldn't even

4145
01:33:19.126 --> 01:33:19.677
could happen.

4146
01:33:19.677 --> 01:33:20.678
So amazing.

4147
01:33:20.678 --> 01:33:21.479
And also,

4148
01:33:21.479 --> 01:33:23.314
I mean, we've both landed

4149
01:33:23.314 --> 01:33:24.265
under capsule,

4150
01:33:24.265 --> 01:33:25.583
under parachutes.

4151
01:33:25.583 --> 01:33:26.917
There's not much better feeling

4152
01:33:26.917 --> 01:33:29.670
when that parachute opens.

4153
01:33:29.670 --> 01:33:30.204
And it was

4154
01:33:30.204 --> 01:33:31.439
it was maybe not

4155
01:33:31.439 --> 01:33:32.790
pretty close to exciting

4156
01:33:32.790 --> 01:33:34.825
And the tents in

4157
01:33:34.825 --> 01:33:35.693
that parachute open.

4158
01:33:35.693 --> 01:33:36.961
Oh, it was thrilling.

4159
01:33:36.961 --> 01:33:38.079
Absolutely thrilling.

4160
01:33:38.079 --> 01:33:40.498
Yeah, That's fantastic.

4161
01:33:40.498 --> 01:33:41.999
Well, that is fantastic.

4162
01:33:41.999 --> 01:33:42.933
And one of the things

4163
01:33:42.933 --> 01:33:43.768
that I think

4164
01:33:43.768 --> 01:33:44.368
will be really

4165
01:33:44.368 --> 01:33:45.503
interesting is this.

4166
01:33:45.503 --> 01:33:45.953
Of course,

4167
01:33:45.953 --> 01:33:47.588
this site is being

4168
01:33:47.588 --> 01:33:48.005
considered

4169
01:33:48.005 --> 01:33:49.407
as one of the candidates

4170
01:33:49.407 --> 01:33:51.058
for the a Boeing STARLINER

4171
01:33:51.058 --> 01:33:51.676
Crew flight. Right.

4172
01:33:51.676 --> 01:33:52.259
And that's actually

4173
01:33:52.259 --> 01:33:52.943
why we're here.

4174
01:33:52.943 --> 01:33:53.678
It just worked out

4175
01:33:53.678 --> 01:33:54.812
in our timing for our training

4176
01:33:54.812 --> 01:33:55.296
and our

4177
01:33:55.296 --> 01:33:57.148
as we're working on Starliner

4178
01:33:57.148 --> 01:33:57.848
that we could

4179
01:33:57.848 --> 01:33:58.683
and actually view

4180
01:33:58.683 --> 01:33:59.917
one of our prime landing sites,

4181
01:33:59.917 --> 01:34:01.118
which is here at Dugway.

4182
01:34:01.118 --> 01:34:01.952
And so that's actually

4183
01:34:01.952 --> 01:34:03.204
what brought us to the area

4184
01:34:03.204 --> 01:34:04.689
so we could be here and share

4185
01:34:04.689 --> 01:34:05.306
in the experience

4186
01:34:05.306 --> 01:34:05.906
with you today.

4187
01:34:05.906 --> 01:34:06.757
And then we see

4188
01:34:06.757 --> 01:34:08.042
this is gone so well,

4189
01:34:08.042 --> 01:34:08.542
we are ready

4190
01:34:08.542 --> 01:34:09.877
to recovery operations.

4191
01:34:09.877 --> 01:34:10.478
That's the place

4192
01:34:10.478 --> 01:34:11.512
that our heritage

4193
01:34:11.512 --> 01:34:12.196
was performing.

4194
01:34:12.196 --> 01:34:13.748
We're seeing beautiful places,

4195
01:34:13.748 --> 01:34:15.383
a beautiful day this morning.

4196
01:34:15.383 --> 01:34:16.317
You know, wind

4197
01:34:16.317 --> 01:34:17.368
and things capsule just came

4198
01:34:17.368 --> 01:34:18.336
right down under the chute

4199
01:34:18.336 --> 01:34:19.086
and hopefully

4200
01:34:19.086 --> 01:34:19.954
will have a nice software.

4201
01:34:19.954 --> 01:34:21.922
I just like this.

4202
01:34:21.922 --> 01:34:22.556
Absolutely.

4203
01:34:22.556 --> 01:34:23.674
And we just got a call out

4204
01:34:23.674 --> 01:34:24.659
that the recovery team

4205
01:34:24.659 --> 01:34:25.343
is performing their

4206
01:34:25.343 --> 01:34:27.795
safety operations. Everything

4207
01:34:27.878 --> 01:34:28.562
sounds good.

4208
01:34:28.562 --> 01:34:29.547
You guys will be coming back

4209
01:34:29.547 --> 01:34:30.998
and maybe someday with samples

4210
01:34:30.998 --> 01:34:32.183
yourself brought back

4211
01:34:32.183 --> 01:34:33.634
by humans. Indeed.

4212
01:34:33.634 --> 01:34:34.952
What do you think about that?

4213
01:34:34.952 --> 01:34:35.369
Again,

4214
01:34:35.369 --> 01:34:36.754
we're in that era of going

4215
01:34:36.754 --> 01:34:37.772
beyond low earth orbit

4216
01:34:37.772 --> 01:34:38.723
now with humans,

4217
01:34:38.723 --> 01:34:38.973
you know,

4218
01:34:38.973 --> 01:34:40.224
headed back to the moon

4219
01:34:40.224 --> 01:34:41.125
and potentially

4220
01:34:41.125 --> 01:34:42.443
one day to Mars Odyssey

4221
01:34:42.443 --> 01:34:43.561
Artemis program.

4222
01:34:43.561 --> 01:34:44.879
And it is a thrilling time,

4223
01:34:44.879 --> 01:34:45.996
as you mentioned earlier,

4224
01:34:45.996 --> 01:34:47.615
so much taking place

4225
01:34:47.615 --> 01:34:48.632
within the solar system,

4226
01:34:48.632 --> 01:34:49.717
the near solar system now.

4227
01:34:49.717 --> 01:34:50.918
And it's it's it's fascinating.

4228
01:34:50.918 --> 01:34:52.136
Great time to be in

4229
01:34:52.136 --> 01:34:52.987
human space.

4230
01:34:52.987 --> 01:34:53.587
I think I'd be a

4231
01:34:53.587 --> 01:34:54.155
little bit nervous

4232
01:34:54.155 --> 01:34:55.072
to go to an asteroid.

4233
01:34:55.072 --> 01:34:56.707
So

4234
01:34:56.707 --> 01:34:59.160
that's why I'm glad

4235
01:34:59.160 --> 01:35:00.177
the spacecraft did it.

4236
01:35:00.177 --> 01:35:02.430
And it will set the pace and

4237
01:35:02.430 --> 01:35:03.414
and show us how to do it.

4238
01:35:03.414 --> 01:35:04.265
But I think

4239
01:35:04.265 --> 01:35:05.032
maybe you practice

4240
01:35:05.032 --> 01:35:06.217
a little bit more before we go

4241
01:35:06.217 --> 01:35:07.868
because it's

4242
01:35:07.868 --> 01:35:09.270
a dangerous environment, Right.

4243
01:35:09.270 --> 01:35:10.838
Learning about it so much.

4244
01:35:10.838 --> 01:35:12.089
But thank you so much

4245
01:35:12.089 --> 01:35:12.890
for joining us today.

4246
01:35:12.890 --> 01:35:14.008
Briefly, you'll stick around

4247
01:35:14.008 --> 01:35:16.060
for more of the show on our.

4248
01:35:16.060 --> 01:35:17.461
Thank you, John.

4249
01:35:17.461 --> 01:35:18.596
Appreciate. Thanks, guys.

4250
01:35:18.596 --> 01:35:19.764
Good luck with your flight

4251
01:35:19.764 --> 01:35:20.848
if you've just joined us.

4252
01:35:20.848 --> 01:35:22.016
This is special live

4253
01:35:22.016 --> 01:35:23.934
coverage of NASA's Osiris-rex

4254
01:35:23.934 --> 01:35:25.886
asteroid sample return mission.

4255
01:35:25.886 --> 01:35:27.004
You might be thinking

4256
01:35:27.004 --> 01:35:28.322
this doesn't look like

4257
01:35:28.322 --> 01:35:30.091
a typical massive facility.

4258
01:35:30.091 --> 01:35:31.175
And it's not.

4259
01:35:31.175 --> 01:35:32.042
In fact, it's

4260
01:35:32.042 --> 01:35:32.526
because of the

4261
01:35:32.526 --> 01:35:33.744
extraordinary capabilities

4262
01:35:33.744 --> 01:35:34.495
that we find here,

4263
01:35:34.495 --> 01:35:35.463
that we find ourselves

4264
01:35:35.463 --> 01:35:36.330
the Utah desert

4265
01:35:36.330 --> 01:35:37.681
in the first place.

4266
01:35:37.681 --> 01:35:38.399
We're coming to you

4267
01:35:38.399 --> 01:35:39.333
live from Army's

4268
01:35:39.333 --> 01:35:40.768
Dugway Proving Ground.

4269
01:35:40.768 --> 01:35:41.485
We've got a video

4270
01:35:41.485 --> 01:35:42.236
postcard to share

4271
01:35:42.236 --> 01:35:42.903
that will give you

4272
01:35:42.903 --> 01:35:43.704
a better sense

4273
01:35:43.704 --> 01:35:44.672
of the glorious desert

4274
01:35:44.672 --> 01:35:46.257
environment all around us.

4275
01:35:46.257 --> 01:36:52.022
Take a look.

4276
01:36:52.106 --> 01:36:54.542
Wow, Absolutely gorgeous.

4277
01:36:54.542 --> 01:36:55.709
The spaces here are vast,

4278
01:36:55.709 --> 01:36:56.277
rugged, beautiful.

4279
01:36:56.277 --> 01:36:56.911
I mean, you get to see

4280
01:36:56.911 --> 01:36:57.661
a little bit from the

4281
01:36:57.661 --> 01:36:58.646
from the NASA helicopter.

4282
01:36:58.646 --> 01:36:59.497
But that was a

4283
01:36:59.497 --> 01:37:00.815
close up and personal.

4284
01:37:00.815 --> 01:37:01.532
And look at this.

4285
01:37:01.532 --> 01:37:02.316
We're in this place.

4286
01:37:02.316 --> 01:37:03.751
It almost looks like Mars,

4287
01:37:03.751 --> 01:37:04.768
but on Earth as we're

4288
01:37:04.768 --> 01:37:05.736
recovering a capsule

4289
01:37:05.736 --> 01:37:07.087
with the the

4290
01:37:07.087 --> 01:37:08.639
the pieces of our universe

4291
01:37:08.639 --> 01:37:09.156
that will tell us

4292
01:37:09.156 --> 01:37:09.924
about the early time

4293
01:37:09.924 --> 01:37:10.774
of our solar system

4294
01:37:10.774 --> 01:37:11.225
that we can't

4295
01:37:11.225 --> 01:37:12.276
get anywhere else.

4296
01:37:12.276 --> 01:37:13.828
And there's the crew out there

4297
01:37:13.828 --> 01:37:14.728
approaching that

4298
01:37:14.728 --> 01:37:15.963
beautiful capsule

4299
01:37:15.963 --> 01:37:17.398
that did the joyful ride

4300
01:37:17.398 --> 01:37:17.798
from that

4301
01:37:17.798 --> 01:37:19.049
top of the atmosphere, down

4302
01:37:19.049 --> 01:37:20.551
13 minutes of roller

4303
01:37:20.551 --> 01:37:22.136
coaster riding,

4304
01:37:22.136 --> 01:37:23.637
and they're getting it safe

4305
01:37:23.637 --> 01:37:24.038
and ready

4306
01:37:24.038 --> 01:37:25.356
to start bagging her

4307
01:37:25.356 --> 01:37:26.340
to come over

4308
01:37:26.340 --> 01:37:28.075
to the clean room here as well.

4309
01:37:28.075 --> 01:37:29.527
And explain why do we you know,

4310
01:37:29.527 --> 01:37:30.144
what do we do,

4311
01:37:30.144 --> 01:37:31.762
a land landing,

4312
01:37:31.762 --> 01:37:32.663
you know,

4313
01:37:32.663 --> 01:37:34.081
as opposed to an ocean landing.

4314
01:37:34.081 --> 01:37:35.165
So many of our crews land

4315
01:37:35.165 --> 01:37:35.699
in the ocean.

4316
01:37:35.699 --> 01:37:36.934
Right. You know, from Apollo.

4317
01:37:36.934 --> 01:37:38.018
But for this one,

4318
01:37:38.018 --> 01:37:38.886
we need to bring it back

4319
01:37:38.886 --> 01:37:39.203
to a place

4320
01:37:39.203 --> 01:37:39.987
where we can contain

4321
01:37:39.987 --> 01:37:41.138
the contamination

4322
01:37:41.138 --> 01:37:42.756
by landing in the desert here,

4323
01:37:42.756 --> 01:37:44.408
we can keep the earth, ocean,

4324
01:37:44.408 --> 01:37:45.442
all those

4325
01:37:45.442 --> 01:37:46.227
absolutely wonderful

4326
01:37:46.227 --> 01:37:47.311
waters out.

4327
01:37:47.311 --> 01:37:48.245
This is the best place

4328
01:37:48.245 --> 01:37:48.629
to bring home

4329
01:37:48.629 --> 01:37:49.613
this kind of capsule.

4330
01:37:49.613 --> 01:37:50.397
And look at her.

4331
01:37:50.397 --> 01:37:51.815
She landed perfectly.

4332
01:37:51.815 --> 01:37:53.617
Looks like a top sitting there.

4333
01:37:53.617 --> 01:37:55.319
Absolutely gorgeous.

4334
01:37:55.319 --> 01:37:56.904
Well, this isn't the first time

4335
01:37:56.904 --> 01:37:59.106
that NASA has Dugway,

4336
01:37:59.106 --> 01:38:00.324
and it certainly won't

4337
01:38:00.324 --> 01:38:03.894
be the last. Take a look.

4338
01:38:03.978 --> 01:38:05.129
All right.

4339
01:38:05.129 --> 01:38:05.846
When bringing a

4340
01:38:05.846 --> 01:38:06.997
sample of the cosmos

4341
01:38:06.997 --> 01:38:07.915
back to Earth,

4342
01:38:07.915 --> 01:38:08.582
it's important

4343
01:38:08.582 --> 01:38:09.934
to find a good landing zone

4344
01:38:09.934 --> 01:38:10.985
that won't compromise

4345
01:38:10.985 --> 01:38:12.052
the sample.

4346
01:38:12.052 --> 01:38:12.536
That's why

4347
01:38:12.536 --> 01:38:13.287
NASA's partnered

4348
01:38:13.287 --> 01:38:14.038
with the Army's

4349
01:38:14.038 --> 01:38:15.606
Dugway Proving Ground.

4350
01:38:15.606 --> 01:38:17.458
It's vast open Space Mexico

4351
01:38:17.458 --> 01:38:18.809
to test

4352
01:38:18.809 --> 01:38:22.062
scientists working on the first

4353
01:38:22.146 --> 01:38:24.365
mission to land the assignment

4354
01:38:24.365 --> 01:38:25.649
for the Genesis mission

4355
01:38:25.649 --> 01:38:26.784
landed here at Dugway,

4356
01:38:26.784 --> 01:38:27.534
delivering our

4357
01:38:27.534 --> 01:38:28.652
first ever samples

4358
01:38:28.652 --> 01:38:30.504
of solar wind.

4359
01:38:30.504 --> 01:38:32.790
In 2006, NASA landed at

4360
01:38:32.790 --> 01:38:33.807
Dugway again,

4361
01:38:33.807 --> 01:38:34.975
this time with a mission

4362
01:38:34.975 --> 01:38:36.176
called Stardust,

4363
01:38:36.176 --> 01:38:36.777
which gathered

4364
01:38:36.777 --> 01:38:39.780
samples of interstellar dust.

4365
01:38:39.813 --> 01:38:40.748
Both of these missions

4366
01:38:40.748 --> 01:38:41.498
helped fuel

4367
01:38:41.498 --> 01:38:42.299
our understanding

4368
01:38:42.299 --> 01:38:43.384
of the universe

4369
01:38:43.384 --> 01:38:44.785
and wouldn't have been possible

4370
01:38:44.785 --> 01:38:46.387
without a safe landing zone.

4371
01:38:46.387 --> 01:38:48.689
Just like Osiris-rex.

4372
01:38:48.689 --> 01:38:50.491
After today, NASA and Dugway

4373
01:38:50.491 --> 01:38:52.293
are looking towards the future

4374
01:38:52.293 --> 01:38:52.977
to the Mars

4375
01:38:52.977 --> 01:38:54.094
sample return mission

4376
01:38:54.094 --> 01:38:54.929
that will once again

4377
01:38:54.929 --> 01:38:56.463
be bringing a unique sample

4378
01:38:56.463 --> 01:38:57.748
of our universe right here

4379
01:38:57.748 --> 01:39:01.068
to Dugway Proving Ground.

4380
01:39:01.135 --> 01:39:02.937
The US and the U.S.

4381
01:39:02.937 --> 01:39:04.021
Army and Air Force

4382
01:39:04.021 --> 01:39:05.072
have been excellent

4383
01:39:05.072 --> 01:39:06.473
hosts to us for months

4384
01:39:06.473 --> 01:39:07.408
as we've been preparing

4385
01:39:07.408 --> 01:39:08.876
for today's landing.

4386
01:39:08.876 --> 01:39:10.260
That's one of many reasons I'm

4387
01:39:10.260 --> 01:39:11.428
so pleased to welcome

4388
01:39:11.428 --> 01:39:12.896
Colonel James Harwell,

4389
01:39:12.896 --> 01:39:14.581
Army commander here at Dugway

4390
01:39:14.581 --> 01:39:15.449
Proving Ground

4391
01:39:15.449 --> 01:39:17.251
Recovery Operations.

4392
01:39:17.251 --> 01:39:18.485
Nominal, essentially

4393
01:39:18.485 --> 01:39:21.305
recovery operations have begun.

4394
01:39:21.305 --> 01:39:23.641
Oak

4395
01:39:23.641 --> 01:39:23.974
All right.

4396
01:39:23.974 --> 01:39:25.776
Nominal RC Recovery

4397
01:39:25.776 --> 01:39:27.695
operations have begun.

4398
01:39:27.695 --> 01:39:29.246
Okay, good.

4399
01:39:29.246 --> 01:39:30.814
All right.

4400
01:39:30.814 --> 01:39:31.115
Okay.

4401
01:39:31.115 --> 01:39:31.982
So today

4402
01:39:31.982 --> 01:39:33.934
could not have gone any better.

4403
01:39:33.934 --> 01:39:34.735
How did it

4404
01:39:34.735 --> 01:39:35.736
I mean, in large part

4405
01:39:35.736 --> 01:39:36.687
due to our amazing partners

4406
01:39:36.687 --> 01:39:37.738
here with the military.

4407
01:39:37.738 --> 01:39:39.423
How did it look from your end?

4408
01:39:39.423 --> 01:39:40.374
Oh, it looked amazing.

4409
01:39:40.374 --> 01:39:41.608
So the

4410
01:39:41.608 --> 01:39:42.059
when you talk

4411
01:39:42.059 --> 01:39:43.077
about partnerships

4412
01:39:43.077 --> 01:39:43.927
isn't just a Dugway

4413
01:39:43.927 --> 01:39:44.995
Proving Ground effort, though.

4414
01:39:44.995 --> 01:39:45.696
You're sitting here

4415
01:39:45.696 --> 01:39:46.547
on Dugway Proving Ground.

4416
01:39:46.547 --> 01:39:47.398
The capsule actually

4417
01:39:47.398 --> 01:39:48.932
landed on the Air Force's

4418
01:39:48.932 --> 01:39:50.284
Utah Test and training range.

4419
01:39:50.284 --> 01:39:50.818
And so it's going

4420
01:39:50.818 --> 01:39:51.485
to be brought here

4421
01:39:51.485 --> 01:39:52.619
to Dugway before.

4422
01:39:52.619 --> 01:39:53.737
It goes to the clean room.

4423
01:39:53.737 --> 01:39:55.522
So this is a larger effort

4424
01:39:55.522 --> 01:39:56.573
than just the Army's

4425
01:39:56.573 --> 01:39:57.174
Dugway Proving

4426
01:39:57.174 --> 01:39:58.225
Ground in Nassau.

4427
01:39:58.225 --> 01:39:59.693
And it looks like

4428
01:39:59.693 --> 01:40:02.346
it might have landed right.

4429
01:40:02.413 --> 01:40:03.781
So I got a note

4430
01:40:03.781 --> 01:40:04.865
just before this

4431
01:40:04.865 --> 01:40:05.516
from the commander

4432
01:40:05.516 --> 01:40:06.367
of the Utah testing

4433
01:40:06.367 --> 01:40:06.984
training range

4434
01:40:06.984 --> 01:40:08.752
that it did land on Utah.

4435
01:40:08.752 --> 01:40:09.386
And so

4436
01:40:09.386 --> 01:40:10.020
there was a little

4437
01:40:10.020 --> 01:40:11.138
bit of rivalry there.

4438
01:40:11.138 --> 01:40:12.573
We were hoping

4439
01:40:12.573 --> 01:40:13.774
it looks like it was on you

4440
01:40:13.774 --> 01:40:14.942
right on the boundary, though.

4441
01:40:14.942 --> 01:40:16.326
So cool.

4442
01:40:16.326 --> 01:40:18.062
So we have a big collaboration

4443
01:40:18.062 --> 01:40:18.479
at NASA

4444
01:40:18.479 --> 01:40:19.747
with members of the

4445
01:40:19.747 --> 01:40:20.798
from the Army and Navy,

4446
01:40:20.798 --> 01:40:21.932
from the military services

4447
01:40:21.932 --> 01:40:22.683
that have given us

4448
01:40:22.683 --> 01:40:23.584
the opportunity

4449
01:40:23.584 --> 01:40:24.752
to go to these great places

4450
01:40:24.752 --> 01:40:26.370
and space ourselves as people.

4451
01:40:26.370 --> 01:40:27.337
And can you tell us

4452
01:40:27.337 --> 01:40:28.405
a little bit about the training

4453
01:40:28.405 --> 01:40:29.339
and other fantastic

4454
01:40:29.339 --> 01:40:30.124
things you do?

4455
01:40:30.124 --> 01:40:31.208
Prepares these people

4456
01:40:31.208 --> 01:40:32.009
to be crew

4457
01:40:32.009 --> 01:40:34.261
for flight into space? Yeah.

4458
01:40:34.261 --> 01:40:35.646
So if you look at it,

4459
01:40:35.646 --> 01:40:36.847
the the Army is

4460
01:40:36.847 --> 01:40:37.865
the greatest leadership

4461
01:40:37.865 --> 01:40:38.665
lab in the world.

4462
01:40:38.665 --> 01:40:39.867
The types of problems

4463
01:40:39.867 --> 01:40:40.617
that we have to solve

4464
01:40:40.617 --> 01:40:41.969
on a day to day basis.

4465
01:40:41.969 --> 01:40:43.387
And we have some of the

4466
01:40:43.387 --> 01:40:44.555
best workforce

4467
01:40:44.555 --> 01:40:45.756
that is available.

4468
01:40:45.756 --> 01:40:46.440
So here at Dugway

4469
01:40:46.440 --> 01:40:46.974
Proving Ground,

4470
01:40:46.974 --> 01:40:47.341
we do

4471
01:40:47.341 --> 01:40:48.425
chemical and biological

4472
01:40:48.425 --> 01:40:49.176
defense testing.

4473
01:40:49.176 --> 01:40:50.094
We're part of the Army's

4474
01:40:50.094 --> 01:40:51.895
test and evaluation command.

4475
01:40:51.895 --> 01:40:52.746
And so any time

4476
01:40:52.746 --> 01:40:53.814
a piece of equipment

4477
01:40:53.814 --> 01:40:55.082
is going to go to

4478
01:40:55.082 --> 01:40:56.100
into a service members

4479
01:40:56.100 --> 01:40:57.334
hands, it's tested

4480
01:40:57.334 --> 01:40:58.285
by one of our

4481
01:40:58.285 --> 01:40:59.136
amazing members

4482
01:40:59.136 --> 01:41:00.387
of our workforce.

4483
01:41:00.387 --> 01:41:01.705
But we also do training here.

4484
01:41:01.705 --> 01:41:02.372
And so

4485
01:41:02.372 --> 01:41:03.390
it gives a chance for folks

4486
01:41:03.390 --> 01:41:03.874
to come

4487
01:41:03.874 --> 01:41:04.508
and do things

4488
01:41:04.508 --> 01:41:05.692
in a realistic environment

4489
01:41:05.692 --> 01:41:07.027
that's really allows them

4490
01:41:07.027 --> 01:41:08.011
to hone those problem

4491
01:41:08.011 --> 01:41:09.113
solving skills.

4492
01:41:09.113 --> 01:41:09.663
So that's why

4493
01:41:09.663 --> 01:41:10.748
the crews are so good

4494
01:41:10.748 --> 01:41:11.698
who come from the

4495
01:41:11.698 --> 01:41:13.233
from the Army in the Navy.

4496
01:41:13.233 --> 01:41:14.184
Yeah, we'd like to point out

4497
01:41:14.184 --> 01:41:15.185
it was an Army astronaut

4498
01:41:15.185 --> 01:41:16.987
this week who went over the

4499
01:41:16.987 --> 01:41:19.306
set, the record. Oh, well,

4500
01:41:19.373 --> 01:41:20.524
there you go.

4501
01:41:20.524 --> 01:41:21.208
Well, we

4502
01:41:21.208 --> 01:41:22.292
couldn't let you go

4503
01:41:22.292 --> 01:41:23.460
without wishing you

4504
01:41:23.460 --> 01:41:25.612
a very happy birthday today.

4505
01:41:25.612 --> 01:41:27.147
Happy birthday. Thank you.

4506
01:41:27.147 --> 01:41:27.698
And you

4507
01:41:27.698 --> 01:41:28.499
got a piece

4508
01:41:28.499 --> 01:41:29.399
of the solar system.

4509
01:41:29.399 --> 01:41:29.783
How about that?

4510
01:41:29.783 --> 01:41:31.285
I don't think

4511
01:41:31.285 --> 01:41:31.952
I could have gotten

4512
01:41:31.952 --> 01:41:33.604
a better present from NASA.

4513
01:41:33.604 --> 01:41:35.072
This is the rarest stuff

4514
01:41:35.072 --> 01:41:36.573
we've ever had on Earth.

4515
01:41:36.573 --> 01:41:37.324
It is.

4516
01:41:37.324 --> 01:41:37.925
And I mean,

4517
01:41:37.925 --> 01:41:38.609
when we're talking

4518
01:41:38.609 --> 01:41:39.726
about the origins of life,

4519
01:41:39.726 --> 01:41:40.794
and that's one of the cool

4520
01:41:40.794 --> 01:41:41.829
I have the coolest job

4521
01:41:41.829 --> 01:41:42.479
in the world.

4522
01:41:42.479 --> 01:41:43.347
A couple of months ago,

4523
01:41:43.347 --> 01:41:43.864
I was here

4524
01:41:43.864 --> 01:41:44.848
and I did the Utah test

4525
01:41:44.848 --> 01:41:45.632
and training range.

4526
01:41:45.632 --> 01:41:46.383
We got to go out to

4527
01:41:46.383 --> 01:41:47.484
an archeological site

4528
01:41:47.484 --> 01:41:48.719
and see 12,000 year

4529
01:41:48.719 --> 01:41:49.503
old footprints.

4530
01:41:49.503 --> 01:41:50.587
And now we're going to get

4531
01:41:50.587 --> 01:41:52.222
to see the material

4532
01:41:52.222 --> 01:41:52.956
from the origins

4533
01:41:52.956 --> 01:41:54.408
of the solar system.

4534
01:41:54.408 --> 01:41:55.826
I think we've set the bar

4535
01:41:55.826 --> 01:41:56.543
pretty high.

4536
01:41:56.543 --> 01:41:57.244
And so my

4537
01:41:57.244 --> 01:41:58.829
my kids think I'm cool today.

4538
01:41:58.829 --> 01:41:59.546
I don't know what

4539
01:41:59.546 --> 01:42:00.547
we're going to do to top this.

4540
01:42:00.547 --> 01:42:00.697
Well,

4541
01:42:00.697 --> 01:42:01.715
we think you're pretty cool.

4542
01:42:01.715 --> 01:42:02.850
Yes. Yes, sir.

4543
01:42:02.850 --> 01:42:03.717
Thank you so much

4544
01:42:03.717 --> 01:42:04.201
for joining us.

4545
01:42:04.201 --> 01:42:05.669
We really loved having you.

4546
01:42:05.669 --> 01:42:08.438
Thank you.

4547
01:42:08.522 --> 01:42:09.606
We have a saying at

4548
01:42:09.606 --> 01:42:10.290
NASA that

4549
01:42:10.290 --> 01:42:11.859
the only way to reach the stars

4550
01:42:11.859 --> 01:42:13.677
is if we all go together.

4551
01:42:13.677 --> 01:42:15.395
The Osiris Rex team

4552
01:42:15.395 --> 01:42:16.296
represents pros

4553
01:42:16.296 --> 01:42:17.614
at the top of their game,

4554
01:42:17.614 --> 01:42:19.233
but explorers are just now

4555
01:42:19.233 --> 01:42:20.284
finding inspiration

4556
01:42:20.284 --> 01:42:21.668
in today's events.

4557
01:42:21.668 --> 01:42:23.070
Here at the Dugway Proving

4558
01:42:23.070 --> 01:42:23.821
Ground, students

4559
01:42:23.821 --> 01:42:24.905
attending public school

4560
01:42:24.905 --> 01:42:26.340
can literally say

4561
01:42:26.340 --> 01:42:27.124
that a sample

4562
01:42:27.124 --> 01:42:28.158
of an asteroid, it

4563
01:42:28.158 --> 01:42:29.843
landed in their backyard.

4564
01:42:29.843 --> 01:42:30.878
We visited the school

4565
01:42:30.878 --> 01:42:32.095
to hear their thoughts

4566
01:42:32.095 --> 01:42:32.880
about the mission

4567
01:42:32.880 --> 01:42:34.114
and how their teachers hope

4568
01:42:34.114 --> 01:42:35.482
it might influence their dreams

4569
01:42:35.482 --> 01:42:43.273
of future exploration.

4570
01:42:43.357 --> 01:42:45.309
My name is Deborah Rockmore

4571
01:42:45.309 --> 01:42:47.094
and I am the librarian here

4572
01:42:47.094 --> 01:42:48.579
at elementary

4573
01:42:48.579 --> 01:42:49.980
through high school.

4574
01:42:49.980 --> 01:42:50.881
I love that

4575
01:42:50.881 --> 01:42:52.466
Dugway is part of this.

4576
01:42:52.466 --> 01:42:54.902
We have a very strong

4577
01:42:54.902 --> 01:42:56.737
feeling about Dugway.

4578
01:42:56.737 --> 01:42:58.805
It's a wonderful base

4579
01:42:58.805 --> 01:43:02.009
to have it be a prominent area

4580
01:43:02.009 --> 01:43:03.627
where this is coming down

4581
01:43:03.627 --> 01:43:05.879
is really amazing to us.

4582
01:43:05.879 --> 01:43:07.564
Well, I I'm just glad

4583
01:43:07.564 --> 01:43:08.315
I had that.

4584
01:43:08.315 --> 01:43:09.266
This little town

4585
01:43:09.266 --> 01:43:11.068
is getting noticed

4586
01:43:11.068 --> 01:43:12.686
is a bit west

4587
01:43:12.686 --> 01:43:13.837
that has kind of

4588
01:43:13.837 --> 01:43:15.339
like all the left

4589
01:43:15.339 --> 01:43:15.622
because they

4590
01:43:15.622 --> 01:43:19.393
get fly to the sky with fire

4591
01:43:19.476 --> 01:43:21.545
because it goes really fast.

4592
01:43:21.545 --> 01:43:21.962
Honestly,

4593
01:43:21.962 --> 01:43:23.247
I find it really cool cause

4594
01:43:23.247 --> 01:43:24.064
you don't really expect

4595
01:43:24.064 --> 01:43:24.898
this stuff to happen,

4596
01:43:24.898 --> 01:43:27.000
you know, in your backyard.

4597
01:43:27.000 --> 01:43:28.468
But I really wish

4598
01:43:28.468 --> 01:43:29.036
I could see it,

4599
01:43:29.036 --> 01:43:29.937
but I don't know.

4600
01:43:29.937 --> 01:43:31.471
I'm going to try my hardest.

4601
01:43:31.471 --> 01:43:32.189
I became

4602
01:43:32.189 --> 01:43:33.207
interested in the mission

4603
01:43:33.207 --> 01:43:35.876
because I have that NASA out

4604
01:43:35.876 --> 01:43:37.110
and I get daily

4605
01:43:37.110 --> 01:43:38.228
updates on photos.

4606
01:43:38.228 --> 01:43:40.497
And one day I saw a photo

4607
01:43:40.497 --> 01:43:41.281
that had

4608
01:43:41.281 --> 01:43:43.016
Dugway, Utah titled on it,

4609
01:43:43.016 --> 01:43:44.768
and I was like, I live there.

4610
01:43:44.768 --> 01:43:46.503
You hear about exciting things

4611
01:43:46.503 --> 01:43:47.221
all over the world

4612
01:43:47.221 --> 01:43:48.188
and it's cool to hear about,

4613
01:43:48.188 --> 01:43:48.655
but you kind of

4614
01:43:48.655 --> 01:43:50.073
never think that you'll be,

4615
01:43:50.073 --> 01:43:51.024
I guess, directly

4616
01:43:51.024 --> 01:43:52.676
or indirectly involved with it.

4617
01:43:52.676 --> 01:43:53.243
But to know

4618
01:43:53.243 --> 01:43:54.177
that it's just happening

4619
01:43:54.177 --> 01:43:56.213
here, what can I say

4620
01:43:56.213 --> 01:43:58.048
is is pretty cool.

4621
01:43:58.048 --> 01:43:58.916
Let's go.

4622
01:43:58.916 --> 01:44:01.735
Cyrus Rex, Go. Cyrus Rex.

4623
01:44:01.735 --> 01:44:04.271
Well, let's go to Cyrus.

4624
01:44:04.354 --> 01:44:04.922
Let's go.

4625
01:44:04.922 --> 01:44:07.291
Cyrus. Rex outside.

4626
01:44:07.291 --> 01:44:14.314
Is that

4627
01:44:14.398 --> 01:44:14.815
all right?

4628
01:44:14.815 --> 01:44:15.449
Let's go.

4629
01:44:15.449 --> 01:44:16.316
Cyrus Rex.

4630
01:44:16.316 --> 01:44:17.317
I love that energy.

4631
01:44:17.317 --> 01:44:18.118
I do, too.

4632
01:44:18.118 --> 01:44:19.319
All right, Jim, you know,

4633
01:44:19.319 --> 01:44:20.887
you're a planetary geologist.

4634
01:44:20.887 --> 01:44:22.289
How did you get into this?

4635
01:44:22.289 --> 01:44:22.889
I mean, these kids

4636
01:44:22.889 --> 01:44:23.674
are just at the beginning

4637
01:44:23.674 --> 01:44:24.574
of thinking about what

4638
01:44:24.574 --> 01:44:25.525
their career might be.

4639
01:44:25.525 --> 01:44:27.094
I mean, how did you do this?

4640
01:44:27.094 --> 01:44:27.444
I think

4641
01:44:27.444 --> 01:44:29.212
all kids are intrinsically

4642
01:44:29.212 --> 01:44:30.564
curious at birth.

4643
01:44:30.564 --> 01:44:32.065
My mother said I was interested

4644
01:44:32.065 --> 01:44:32.799
in space at birth.

4645
01:44:32.799 --> 01:44:33.634
Don't know how she knew.

4646
01:44:33.634 --> 01:44:34.768
But in any event,

4647
01:44:34.768 --> 01:44:35.602
I think we all are

4648
01:44:35.602 --> 01:44:36.119
and we

4649
01:44:36.119 --> 01:44:37.020
follow different pathways.

4650
01:44:37.020 --> 01:44:38.555
If you see things as beautiful

4651
01:44:38.555 --> 01:44:39.990
as we have here in Dugway,

4652
01:44:39.990 --> 01:44:40.891
here in Utah,

4653
01:44:40.891 --> 01:44:42.326
you'll be inspired by the rocks

4654
01:44:42.326 --> 01:44:43.193
and the things in space

4655
01:44:43.193 --> 01:44:44.344
like these special samples

4656
01:44:44.344 --> 01:44:44.911
we've brought back,

4657
01:44:44.911 --> 01:44:46.046
which are unique

4658
01:44:46.046 --> 01:44:46.980
being from Bennu

4659
01:44:46.980 --> 01:44:47.648
but not unique

4660
01:44:47.648 --> 01:44:48.598
in the kinds of materials

4661
01:44:48.598 --> 01:44:49.349
we have here on Earth

4662
01:44:49.349 --> 01:44:50.167
thanks to other

4663
01:44:50.167 --> 01:44:51.218
asteroid returns.

4664
01:44:51.218 --> 01:44:51.935
These are the biggest

4665
01:44:51.935 --> 01:44:52.586
we've ever done,

4666
01:44:52.586 --> 01:44:53.337
and so we're excited.

4667
01:44:53.337 --> 01:44:54.187
But I think

4668
01:44:54.187 --> 01:44:55.856
curiosity is in all of us.

4669
01:44:55.856 --> 01:44:56.974
And so

4670
01:44:56.974 --> 01:44:57.574
that's really

4671
01:44:57.574 --> 01:44:58.442
what it's all about.

4672
01:44:58.442 --> 01:44:59.493
And these kids are ready

4673
01:44:59.493 --> 01:45:00.894
to pick up on this energy now.

4674
01:45:00.894 --> 01:45:02.429
We need that future generation.

4675
01:45:02.429 --> 01:45:02.646
All right.

4676
01:45:02.646 --> 01:45:04.147
Let's get an update from James.

4677
01:45:04.147 --> 01:45:05.165
James, go ahead.

4678
01:45:05.165 --> 01:45:05.615
Yeah, Lauren.

4679
01:45:05.615 --> 01:45:06.833
So the mission operations

4680
01:45:06.833 --> 01:45:07.834
team has confirmed

4681
01:45:07.834 --> 01:45:08.735
that we are able to begin

4682
01:45:08.735 --> 01:45:09.753
those recovery operations

4683
01:45:09.753 --> 01:45:10.320
you've been seeing

4684
01:45:10.320 --> 01:45:10.837
on your screen

4685
01:45:10.837 --> 01:45:11.588
in the bottom corner

4686
01:45:11.588 --> 01:45:12.806
for the past couple of minutes,

4687
01:45:12.806 --> 01:45:13.323
team members

4688
01:45:13.323 --> 01:45:14.458
beginning to head out

4689
01:45:14.458 --> 01:45:15.692
and put flags

4690
01:45:15.692 --> 01:45:16.677
of areas of interest

4691
01:45:16.677 --> 01:45:17.878
where we'll want to sample

4692
01:45:17.878 --> 01:45:19.830
for our sample curation team.

4693
01:45:19.830 --> 01:45:20.881
And also just a note

4694
01:45:20.881 --> 01:45:22.316
on our parachute deployment.

4695
01:45:22.316 --> 01:45:23.483
The parachute was set to deploy

4696
01:45:23.483 --> 01:45:24.935
based on capsule deceleration,

4697
01:45:24.935 --> 01:45:25.836
and we actually reached

4698
01:45:25.836 --> 01:45:26.670
that threshold

4699
01:45:26.670 --> 01:45:27.788
earlier than predicted

4700
01:45:27.788 --> 01:45:28.355
and the parachute

4701
01:45:28.355 --> 01:45:29.856
deployed appropriately.

4702
01:45:29.856 --> 01:45:31.925
So everything was right there

4703
01:45:31.925 --> 01:45:33.043
working perfectly fine.

4704
01:45:33.043 --> 01:45:33.960
We got that as far.

4705
01:45:33.960 --> 01:45:35.162
See, as you can see

4706
01:45:35.162 --> 01:45:36.330
successfully on the ground,

4707
01:45:36.330 --> 01:45:38.131
it is perfectly resting

4708
01:45:38.131 --> 01:45:39.366
on the desert terrain.

4709
01:45:39.366 --> 01:45:40.167
And you see three

4710
01:45:40.167 --> 01:45:41.368
of our team members

4711
01:45:41.368 --> 01:45:42.602
around that capsule

4712
01:45:42.602 --> 01:45:44.137
beginning to place flags

4713
01:45:44.137 --> 01:45:45.622
to begin to collect samples.

4714
01:45:45.622 --> 01:45:46.473
The team members here

4715
01:45:46.473 --> 01:45:48.759
you see on screen are Sanford

4716
01:45:48.759 --> 01:45:49.443
Dante Lauretta,

4717
01:45:49.443 --> 01:45:50.243
the principal investigator

4718
01:45:50.243 --> 01:45:51.178
at the right of your screen

4719
01:45:51.178 --> 01:45:53.213
there, and Francis McCubbin.

4720
01:45:53.213 --> 01:45:54.698
These are key curation

4721
01:45:54.698 --> 01:45:55.198
team members

4722
01:45:55.198 --> 01:45:56.216
who will help us actually

4723
01:45:56.216 --> 01:45:58.285
get a lot of these samples

4724
01:45:58.285 --> 01:45:59.102
of the region,

4725
01:45:59.102 --> 01:46:00.570
their environmental samples

4726
01:46:00.570 --> 01:46:02.039
collected and ready

4727
01:46:02.039 --> 01:46:03.690
to be passed

4728
01:46:03.690 --> 01:46:04.408
along to our team

4729
01:46:04.408 --> 01:46:05.692
at the Johnson Space Center

4730
01:46:05.692 --> 01:46:08.028
for Curation efforts there.

4731
01:46:08.095 --> 01:46:08.912
This is again, a

4732
01:46:08.912 --> 01:46:09.863
very key part of the mission.

4733
01:46:09.863 --> 01:46:10.414
We want to make sure

4734
01:46:10.414 --> 01:46:11.948
that there is no contamination

4735
01:46:11.948 --> 01:46:13.166
of that sample return capsule

4736
01:46:13.166 --> 01:46:14.551
from any possible

4737
01:46:14.551 --> 01:46:15.419
atmospheric or

4738
01:46:15.419 --> 01:46:17.037
environmental conditions

4739
01:46:17.037 --> 01:46:17.788
at that landing zone,

4740
01:46:17.788 --> 01:46:18.839
that landing site.

4741
01:46:18.839 --> 01:46:19.406
And so we're going

4742
01:46:19.406 --> 01:46:20.524
to continue these operations

4743
01:46:20.524 --> 01:46:21.691
and actually begin

4744
01:46:21.691 --> 01:46:22.142
to scoop up

4745
01:46:22.142 --> 01:46:22.859
some of the samples.

4746
01:46:22.859 --> 01:46:23.460
And this will work

4747
01:46:23.460 --> 01:46:24.628
like a well-oiled machine

4748
01:46:24.628 --> 01:46:25.979
you'll see in a few moments

4749
01:46:25.979 --> 01:46:26.463
Dante,

4750
01:46:26.463 --> 01:46:27.597
who was just on your screen

4751
01:46:27.597 --> 01:46:28.014
a few moments

4752
01:46:28.014 --> 01:46:29.549
ago, is wearing an arm band

4753
01:46:29.549 --> 01:46:30.217
much like a

4754
01:46:30.217 --> 01:46:31.134
football quarterback,

4755
01:46:31.134 --> 01:46:31.918
if you will.

4756
01:46:31.918 --> 01:46:32.702
He'll actually be kind of

4757
01:46:32.702 --> 01:46:33.387
reading off the play

4758
01:46:33.387 --> 01:46:34.588
calls as they go out

4759
01:46:34.588 --> 01:46:35.872
and go step by step

4760
01:46:35.872 --> 01:46:36.723
to actually scoop

4761
01:46:36.723 --> 01:46:37.257
into the terrain

4762
01:46:37.257 --> 01:46:38.158
about an inch down

4763
01:46:38.158 --> 01:46:40.026
into the surface of the desert,

4764
01:46:40.026 --> 01:46:40.977
scooping out a little bit

4765
01:46:40.977 --> 01:46:41.828
of the rock and dust

4766
01:46:41.828 --> 01:46:42.629
that's there,

4767
01:46:42.629 --> 01:46:43.713
placing it into a bag,

4768
01:46:43.713 --> 01:46:45.031
photographing the whole process

4769
01:46:45.031 --> 01:46:45.899
along the way,

4770
01:46:45.899 --> 01:46:46.983
making Note of exactly

4771
01:46:46.983 --> 01:46:47.634
where they collected

4772
01:46:47.634 --> 01:46:48.785
that sample from.

4773
01:46:48.785 --> 01:46:49.853
All this information will

4774
01:46:49.853 --> 01:46:50.937
then be passed along

4775
01:46:50.937 --> 01:46:51.938
to our sample curation

4776
01:46:51.938 --> 01:46:52.889
team at the Johnson

4777
01:46:52.889 --> 01:46:53.707
Space Center

4778
01:46:53.707 --> 01:46:54.624
as they begin

4779
01:46:54.624 --> 01:46:55.892
to actually open up

4780
01:46:55.892 --> 01:46:57.177
that sample canister

4781
01:46:57.177 --> 01:46:58.178
and see exactly

4782
01:46:58.178 --> 01:46:59.763
what we got within.

4783
01:46:59.763 --> 01:47:00.781
This has been a long journey.

4784
01:47:00.781 --> 01:47:02.699
It's been a incredible morning

4785
01:47:02.699 --> 01:47:03.066
to witness

4786
01:47:03.066 --> 01:47:03.934
this live

4787
01:47:03.934 --> 01:47:05.018
just really just

4788
01:47:05.018 --> 01:47:06.052
such a stunning feat

4789
01:47:06.052 --> 01:47:06.937
of engineering

4790
01:47:06.937 --> 01:47:08.305
to get that capsule

4791
01:47:08.305 --> 01:47:09.423
back here to Earth

4792
01:47:09.423 --> 01:47:10.173
with samples

4793
01:47:10.173 --> 01:47:11.908
of the asteroid bennu.

4794
01:47:11.908 --> 01:47:12.726
This is why we do

4795
01:47:12.726 --> 01:47:13.493
science, right,

4796
01:47:13.493 --> 01:47:14.845
to get these kinds of samples.

4797
01:47:14.845 --> 01:47:16.163
Every piece of dust

4798
01:47:16.163 --> 01:47:17.280
and grain inside

4799
01:47:17.280 --> 01:47:18.482
that sample return capsule

4800
01:47:18.482 --> 01:47:19.316
is a Ph.D.

4801
01:47:19.316 --> 01:47:21.218
thesis waiting to be written.

4802
01:47:21.218 --> 01:47:22.269
It's a new discovery,

4803
01:47:22.269 --> 01:47:22.953
waiting for us

4804
01:47:22.953 --> 01:47:23.753
about the origins

4805
01:47:23.753 --> 01:47:24.654
of the solar system

4806
01:47:24.654 --> 01:47:25.822
and our place in it.

4807
01:47:25.822 --> 01:47:26.940
And the vast

4808
01:47:26.940 --> 01:47:27.991
majority of that sample, more

4809
01:47:27.991 --> 01:47:29.693
than 70% of that sample

4810
01:47:29.693 --> 01:47:30.360
is actually going

4811
01:47:30.360 --> 01:47:31.228
to be stowed away

4812
01:47:31.228 --> 01:47:32.846
for future analysis.

4813
01:47:32.846 --> 01:47:34.080
We did the same exact thing

4814
01:47:34.080 --> 01:47:35.198
with the Apollo missions

4815
01:47:35.198 --> 01:47:35.882
when we brought back

4816
01:47:35.882 --> 01:47:37.417
rocks from the moon,

4817
01:47:37.417 --> 01:47:39.503
a large quantity of those rocks

4818
01:47:39.503 --> 01:47:40.587
and dust from the moon

4819
01:47:40.587 --> 01:47:42.038
our astronauts brought back

4820
01:47:42.038 --> 01:47:42.956
were stowed away

4821
01:47:42.956 --> 01:47:44.341
for future generations,

4822
01:47:44.341 --> 01:47:45.809
with the expectation

4823
01:47:45.809 --> 01:47:46.977
that our technology

4824
01:47:46.977 --> 01:47:48.295
would continue to improve

4825
01:47:48.295 --> 01:47:49.646
and improve and improve.

4826
01:47:49.646 --> 01:47:50.247
And then

4827
01:47:50.247 --> 01:47:51.815
we'd be able to ask questions

4828
01:47:51.815 --> 01:47:52.265
that we couldn't

4829
01:47:52.265 --> 01:47:53.884
even begin to fathom.

4830
01:47:53.884 --> 01:47:54.518
And now

4831
01:47:54.518 --> 01:47:55.952
the same thing will be doing

4832
01:47:55.952 --> 01:47:57.604
with the osiris-rex samples

4833
01:47:57.604 --> 01:47:58.288
that we brought back

4834
01:47:58.288 --> 01:47:59.556
from the asteroid Bennu.

4835
01:47:59.556 --> 01:48:00.123
A lot of these

4836
01:48:00.123 --> 01:48:00.907
will be opened up

4837
01:48:00.907 --> 01:48:02.075
50 years from now

4838
01:48:02.075 --> 01:48:02.642
with scientists

4839
01:48:02.642 --> 01:48:03.693
who are yet to be born

4840
01:48:03.693 --> 01:48:04.444
asking questions.

4841
01:48:04.444 --> 01:48:12.702
We can't begin to imagine.

4842
01:48:12.786 --> 01:48:13.803
So our team is just

4843
01:48:13.803 --> 01:48:14.604
huddling off

4844
01:48:14.604 --> 01:48:15.422
screen now

4845
01:48:15.422 --> 01:48:17.374
and our recovery operations

4846
01:48:17.374 --> 01:48:17.791
will begin.

4847
01:48:17.791 --> 01:48:18.808
You'll see a number of team

4848
01:48:18.808 --> 01:48:20.310
members come out here

4849
01:48:20.310 --> 01:48:21.511
to be carrying with them

4850
01:48:21.511 --> 01:48:23.663
a carrying fixture.

4851
01:48:23.663 --> 01:48:24.698
It's a large metal fixture

4852
01:48:24.698 --> 01:48:25.148
that has been

4853
01:48:25.148 --> 01:48:26.333
perfectly designed

4854
01:48:26.333 --> 01:48:29.135
to have our CRC resting within.

4855
01:48:29.135 --> 01:48:30.237
They'll be bringing out

4856
01:48:30.237 --> 01:48:31.705
a lot of thermal blanketing

4857
01:48:31.705 --> 01:48:32.372
that will be used

4858
01:48:32.372 --> 01:48:33.507
to protect our SIRC

4859
01:48:33.507 --> 01:48:34.257
during its flight

4860
01:48:34.257 --> 01:48:36.593
back to the clean room here

4861
01:48:36.593 --> 01:48:36.893
again,

4862
01:48:36.893 --> 01:48:37.978
we want to make sure that the

4863
01:48:37.978 --> 01:48:39.563
CRC is safe

4864
01:48:39.563 --> 01:48:40.313
from any kind of

4865
01:48:40.313 --> 01:48:41.364
possible contamination

4866
01:48:41.364 --> 01:48:42.599
from the atmosphere.

4867
01:48:42.599 --> 01:48:43.200
So they're going to do

4868
01:48:43.200 --> 01:48:43.984
an excellent job

4869
01:48:43.984 --> 01:48:44.851
of actually wrapping

4870
01:48:44.851 --> 01:48:46.136
this SIRC up

4871
01:48:46.136 --> 01:48:46.736
and getting it

4872
01:48:46.736 --> 01:48:47.938
prepared to transport

4873
01:48:47.938 --> 01:48:50.423
to a portable clean room.

4874
01:48:50.423 --> 01:48:51.658
That actual operation

4875
01:48:51.658 --> 01:48:52.526
of getting that SASE

4876
01:48:52.526 --> 01:48:54.361
bagged and stowed and ready

4877
01:48:54.361 --> 01:48:55.745
to go on our long line

4878
01:48:55.745 --> 01:48:57.214
operations for the helicopter

4879
01:48:57.214 --> 01:48:58.014
will be a rather

4880
01:48:58.014 --> 01:48:58.748
quick operation.

4881
01:48:58.748 --> 01:48:59.633
As you see some team members

4882
01:48:59.633 --> 01:49:00.934
from Lockheed Martin,

4883
01:49:00.934 --> 01:49:02.102
their role is largely

4884
01:49:02.102 --> 01:49:02.786
finished for today.

4885
01:49:02.786 --> 01:49:03.503
They were

4886
01:49:03.503 --> 01:49:04.471
operating a lot of the flight

4887
01:49:04.471 --> 01:49:05.722
dynamics of that SIRC

4888
01:49:05.722 --> 01:49:07.290
getting it to the ground

4889
01:49:07.290 --> 01:49:08.642
and now they can really just

4890
01:49:08.642 --> 01:49:09.876
take a step back and relax,

4891
01:49:09.876 --> 01:49:10.644
catch their breath

4892
01:49:10.644 --> 01:49:11.945
after all the chaos

4893
01:49:11.945 --> 01:49:13.046
of the morning.

4894
01:49:13.046 --> 01:49:13.914
Very exciting moment

4895
01:49:13.914 --> 01:49:14.698
for all of them, I'm sure,

4896
01:49:14.698 --> 01:49:16.566
to actually see their creation

4897
01:49:16.566 --> 01:49:18.118
sitting on the surface

4898
01:49:18.118 --> 01:49:18.935
of the Utah test

4899
01:49:18.935 --> 01:49:20.370
and training range.

4900
01:49:20.370 --> 01:49:21.788
Just massive,

4901
01:49:21.788 --> 01:49:23.890
massive sigh of relief.

4902
01:49:23.974 --> 01:49:25.025
So as I mentioned, that

4903
01:49:25.025 --> 01:49:26.309
actual of the NRC

4904
01:49:26.309 --> 01:49:26.610
will be a

4905
01:49:26.610 --> 01:49:27.777
relatively quick process.

4906
01:49:27.777 --> 01:49:28.645
But a number

4907
01:49:28.645 --> 01:49:29.362
of our team members,

4908
01:49:29.362 --> 01:49:30.630
including Dante Lauretta,

4909
01:49:30.630 --> 01:49:31.598
our principal investigator,

4910
01:49:31.598 --> 01:49:33.450
might remain out on the site

4911
01:49:33.450 --> 01:49:34.467
where you see that CRC

4912
01:49:34.467 --> 01:49:35.018
on your screen.

4913
01:49:35.018 --> 01:49:36.269
Now, they're going to continue

4914
01:49:36.269 --> 01:49:36.987
to collect samples.

4915
01:49:36.987 --> 01:49:38.004
You can see a number of flags

4916
01:49:38.004 --> 01:49:39.155
placed around.

4917
01:49:39.155 --> 01:49:39.806
There's some pink

4918
01:49:39.806 --> 01:49:41.074
flags placed there.

4919
01:49:41.074 --> 01:49:42.158
There are four placed

4920
01:49:42.158 --> 01:49:43.226
in front of the NRC

4921
01:49:43.226 --> 01:49:43.977
where the team believes

4922
01:49:43.977 --> 01:49:45.579
the SLC is potentially

4923
01:49:45.579 --> 01:49:46.296
along the surface

4924
01:49:46.296 --> 01:49:47.314
as it came to a rest

4925
01:49:47.314 --> 01:49:48.031
on the Utah test

4926
01:49:48.031 --> 01:49:48.965
and training range

4927
01:49:48.965 --> 01:49:50.367
desert surface

4928
01:49:50.367 --> 01:49:51.818
on the backside of the disaster

4929
01:49:51.818 --> 01:49:53.820
for additional pink flags.

4930
01:49:53.820 --> 01:49:55.505
And those are our regions

4931
01:49:55.505 --> 01:49:57.007
control sampling.

4932
01:49:57.007 --> 01:49:58.525
We'll actually go and sample

4933
01:49:58.525 --> 01:49:59.726
all of these regions

4934
01:49:59.726 --> 01:50:00.927
and compare back to areas

4935
01:50:00.927 --> 01:50:01.328
we believe

4936
01:50:01.328 --> 01:50:03.480
the CRC did not contact.

4937
01:50:03.480 --> 01:50:04.464
You can see additionally,

4938
01:50:04.464 --> 01:50:05.198
it's a little bit hard

4939
01:50:05.198 --> 01:50:06.232
make out with the bright

4940
01:50:06.232 --> 01:50:07.167
color of the desert,

4941
01:50:07.167 --> 01:50:08.168
but there are a couple

4942
01:50:08.168 --> 01:50:10.587
white flags present at the CRC

4943
01:50:10.587 --> 01:50:11.588
and these are areas

4944
01:50:11.588 --> 01:50:12.756
of operation for the team

4945
01:50:12.756 --> 01:50:13.473
to actually be able

4946
01:50:13.473 --> 01:50:15.325
to walk up to the CRC

4947
01:50:15.325 --> 01:50:15.992
with the carrying

4948
01:50:15.992 --> 01:50:17.277
fixture, place

4949
01:50:17.277 --> 01:50:18.812
it next to the CRC

4950
01:50:18.812 --> 01:50:20.463
and actually begin to bag

4951
01:50:20.463 --> 01:50:21.965
and stow our sample return

4952
01:50:21.965 --> 01:50:22.949
capsule for transport

4953
01:50:22.949 --> 01:50:28.154
to the Dugway Clean Room.

4954
01:50:28.238 --> 01:50:29.306
So it's been already

4955
01:50:29.306 --> 01:50:30.624
just an incredible morning.

4956
01:50:30.624 --> 01:50:32.275
We're now about an hour past

4957
01:50:32.275 --> 01:50:34.194
landing of the Osiris-rex

4958
01:50:34.194 --> 01:50:35.795
sample return capsule.

4959
01:50:35.795 --> 01:50:36.963
Just a few years ago,

4960
01:50:36.963 --> 01:50:38.365
our spacecraft, our intrepid

4961
01:50:38.365 --> 01:50:39.716
robotic Explorer,

4962
01:50:39.716 --> 01:50:40.767
was 200

4963
01:50:40.767 --> 01:50:42.485
million miles away from us

4964
01:50:42.485 --> 01:50:43.169
on the other side

4965
01:50:43.169 --> 01:50:44.137
of the solar system.

4966
01:50:44.137 --> 01:50:45.639
It successfully captured

4967
01:50:45.639 --> 01:50:47.791
a sample of the asteroid Bennu

4968
01:50:47.791 --> 01:50:48.875
stowed it away

4969
01:50:48.875 --> 01:50:50.377
and transported on the long

4970
01:50:50.377 --> 01:50:53.046
1.2 billion mile journey to us

4971
01:50:53.046 --> 01:50:54.180
here on Earth.

4972
01:50:54.180 --> 01:50:56.700
We experienced an incredible

4973
01:50:56.700 --> 01:50:59.102
entry, descent and landing

4974
01:50:59.102 --> 01:50:59.853
as this team

4975
01:50:59.853 --> 01:51:00.720
that you see on screen here,

4976
01:51:00.720 --> 01:51:01.471
the Lockheed Martin team

4977
01:51:01.471 --> 01:51:02.072
a couple of hours

4978
01:51:02.072 --> 01:51:03.456
before our broadcast started,

4979
01:51:03.456 --> 01:51:04.708
gave the green light to go

4980
01:51:04.708 --> 01:51:06.209
command actually released

4981
01:51:06.209 --> 01:51:07.377
the sample return capsule

4982
01:51:07.377 --> 01:51:08.345
containing pieces

4983
01:51:08.345 --> 01:51:09.996
of the asteroid bennu.

4984
01:51:09.996 --> 01:51:11.665
It then floated on its own

4985
01:51:11.665 --> 01:51:12.666
through the vacuum of space

4986
01:51:12.666 --> 01:51:13.950
for about 4 hours

4987
01:51:13.950 --> 01:51:15.085
before coming in contact

4988
01:51:15.085 --> 01:51:16.436
with the atmosphere

4989
01:51:16.436 --> 01:51:17.937
over the San Francisco,

4990
01:51:17.937 --> 01:51:18.722
California Bay

4991
01:51:18.722 --> 01:51:19.522
area,

4992
01:51:19.522 --> 01:51:22.525
traveling at just over 27,000

4993
01:51:22.742 --> 01:51:24.244
miles per hour

4994
01:51:24.244 --> 01:51:25.445
and hitting up to over

4995
01:51:25.445 --> 01:51:27.063
5000 degrees Fahrenheit

4996
01:51:27.063 --> 01:51:27.964
as it encountered

4997
01:51:27.964 --> 01:51:29.849
the incredible drag forces

4998
01:51:29.849 --> 01:51:30.383
our Earth's

4999
01:51:30.383 --> 01:51:32.068
atmosphere presents.

5000
01:51:32.068 --> 01:51:33.186
We then slow down

5001
01:51:33.186 --> 01:51:33.870
under our drogue

5002
01:51:33.870 --> 01:51:35.455
parachute initially,

5003
01:51:35.455 --> 01:51:37.107
which kept us stable

5004
01:51:37.107 --> 01:51:38.224
during our descent down

5005
01:51:38.224 --> 01:51:38.975
to the Utah test

5006
01:51:38.975 --> 01:51:40.110
and training range.

5007
01:51:40.110 --> 01:51:41.277
And then ultimately

5008
01:51:41.277 --> 01:51:42.512
at about 20,000

5009
01:51:42.512 --> 01:51:44.064
feet off the deck,

5010
01:51:44.064 --> 01:51:45.031
we gave the command

5011
01:51:45.031 --> 01:51:46.716
to deploy our main parachute,

5012
01:51:46.716 --> 01:51:47.317
that orange

5013
01:51:47.317 --> 01:51:48.301
creamsicle colored parachute

5014
01:51:48.301 --> 01:51:49.285
that is now actually already

5015
01:51:49.285 --> 01:51:50.453
been stowed away

5016
01:51:50.453 --> 01:51:52.055
by our team members

5017
01:51:52.055 --> 01:51:53.339
here at the Utah Test

5018
01:51:53.339 --> 01:51:54.691
and Training Range.

5019
01:51:54.691 --> 01:51:55.592
It's been

5020
01:51:55.592 --> 01:51:57.477
a really wild journey.

5021
01:51:57.477 --> 01:51:58.378
Very excited to have

5022
01:51:58.378 --> 01:52:05.018
our SLC on the ground

5023
01:52:05.101 --> 01:52:05.885
and you see a view of

5024
01:52:05.885 --> 01:52:06.720
our mission operations

5025
01:52:06.720 --> 01:52:07.470
team observing

5026
01:52:07.470 --> 01:52:08.254
our recovery team

5027
01:52:08.254 --> 01:52:09.272
that is already out

5028
01:52:09.272 --> 01:52:10.623
on the landing zone,

5029
01:52:10.623 --> 01:52:12.325
taking beginning

5030
01:52:12.325 --> 01:52:13.326
to actually prepare

5031
01:52:13.326 --> 01:52:13.860
the thermal

5032
01:52:13.860 --> 01:52:14.694
blanketing

5033
01:52:14.694 --> 01:52:15.595
the protective layers

5034
01:52:15.595 --> 01:52:16.379
for our SRB.

5035
01:52:16.379 --> 01:52:16.863
And you can see

5036
01:52:16.863 --> 01:52:17.430
we're

5037
01:52:17.430 --> 01:52:18.715
documenting this whole process

5038
01:52:18.715 --> 01:52:21.518
along the way.

5039
01:52:21.518 --> 01:52:22.535
And so these operations

5040
01:52:22.535 --> 01:52:23.153
will continue

5041
01:52:23.153 --> 01:52:24.537
for the next couple of minutes

5042
01:52:24.537 --> 01:52:25.405
as long as it takes

5043
01:52:25.405 --> 01:52:27.574
to safely store that as RC

5044
01:52:27.574 --> 01:52:28.141
and prepared

5045
01:52:28.141 --> 01:52:29.192
for long line operations

5046
01:52:29.192 --> 01:52:29.526
to get it

5047
01:52:29.526 --> 01:52:30.794
to the clean room here,

5048
01:52:30.794 --> 01:52:32.345
continue to take samples

5049
01:52:32.345 --> 01:52:33.263
and I will continue

5050
01:52:33.263 --> 01:52:34.347
to monitor the situation

5051
01:52:34.347 --> 01:52:35.648
as we proceed here.

5052
01:52:35.648 --> 01:52:36.966
But for now, back to you

5053
01:52:36.966 --> 01:52:39.068
learned Jim.

5054
01:52:39.068 --> 01:52:39.719
Thanks, James.

5055
01:52:39.719 --> 01:52:40.437
And just a reminder

5056
01:52:40.437 --> 01:52:41.287
to those watching,

5057
01:52:41.287 --> 01:52:43.406
we are in an extremely

5058
01:52:43.406 --> 01:52:44.274
remote location.

5059
01:52:44.274 --> 01:52:45.458
And so if our signal

5060
01:52:45.458 --> 01:52:46.893
is breaking up, it's

5061
01:52:46.893 --> 01:52:48.027
because we're just

5062
01:52:48.027 --> 01:52:48.511
we're we're out

5063
01:52:48.511 --> 01:52:49.763
in the middle of nowhere.

5064
01:52:49.763 --> 01:52:51.297
So we're doing a great job,

5065
01:52:51.297 --> 01:52:52.766
all things considered.

5066
01:52:52.766 --> 01:52:53.733
One of the thing that I wanted

5067
01:52:53.733 --> 01:52:54.517
to address really quickly

5068
01:52:54.517 --> 01:52:55.802
is that parachute

5069
01:52:55.802 --> 01:52:56.436
ended up

5070
01:52:56.436 --> 01:52:57.687
deploying really quickly,

5071
01:52:57.687 --> 01:52:58.171
did it not?

5072
01:52:58.171 --> 01:52:58.838
Yeah, it did.

5073
01:52:58.838 --> 01:52:59.873
It deployed high

5074
01:52:59.873 --> 01:53:01.407
and this is a smart spacecraft,

5075
01:53:01.407 --> 01:53:03.810
that sample return capsule

5076
01:53:03.810 --> 01:53:04.677
that detected

5077
01:53:04.677 --> 01:53:05.695
the deceleration rate

5078
01:53:05.695 --> 01:53:06.546
and it decided

5079
01:53:06.546 --> 01:53:07.413
that it was important

5080
01:53:07.413 --> 01:53:08.214
to get that parachute

5081
01:53:08.214 --> 01:53:09.299
out to slow down.

5082
01:53:09.299 --> 01:53:10.049
So we make this

5083
01:53:10.049 --> 01:53:11.251
beautiful, safe landing.

5084
01:53:11.251 --> 01:53:12.185
And that's the way this

5085
01:53:12.185 --> 01:53:12.902
this magical

5086
01:53:12.902 --> 01:53:13.837
autonomous spaceflight

5087
01:53:13.837 --> 01:53:14.788
works these days.

5088
01:53:14.788 --> 01:53:15.455
We adjust

5089
01:53:15.455 --> 01:53:16.139
the dynamics

5090
01:53:16.139 --> 01:53:16.823
of the environment.

5091
01:53:16.823 --> 01:53:17.373
Again,

5092
01:53:17.373 --> 01:53:18.475
hats off to the engineers

5093
01:53:18.475 --> 01:53:19.642
that built those systems in

5094
01:53:19.642 --> 01:53:20.677
so we could be home

5095
01:53:20.677 --> 01:53:21.628
safe doing what

5096
01:53:21.628 --> 01:53:22.679
you can see on your screen now

5097
01:53:22.679 --> 01:53:24.564
with a beautiful landing.

5098
01:53:24.564 --> 01:53:25.081
All right, Jim,

5099
01:53:25.081 --> 01:53:26.166
let's actually take

5100
01:53:26.166 --> 01:53:27.333
some social media

5101
01:53:27.333 --> 01:53:28.585
questions now.

5102
01:53:28.585 --> 01:53:30.186
Let's get our one.

5103
01:53:30.186 --> 01:53:30.870
All right.

5104
01:53:30.870 --> 01:53:33.606
At CC, SB wants to know,

5105
01:53:33.606 --> 01:53:35.492
will the sample be quarantined?

5106
01:53:35.492 --> 01:53:37.227
Quarantined like moon rocks.

5107
01:53:37.227 --> 01:53:39.512
Ah well, in this case,

5108
01:53:39.512 --> 01:53:40.680
based on a classification

5109
01:53:40.680 --> 01:53:41.281
of what we call

5110
01:53:41.281 --> 01:53:42.782
the planetary protection,

5111
01:53:42.782 --> 01:53:43.349
these samples

5112
01:53:43.349 --> 01:53:44.434
will not be quarantined

5113
01:53:44.434 --> 01:53:45.151
in that way.

5114
01:53:45.151 --> 01:53:46.553
The first moon rocks came back.

5115
01:53:46.553 --> 01:53:47.370
They were quarantined

5116
01:53:47.370 --> 01:53:48.121
for a week

5117
01:53:48.121 --> 01:53:48.988
out on the carrier

5118
01:53:48.988 --> 01:53:50.306
and all that kind of good stuff

5119
01:53:50.306 --> 01:53:51.357
came back to Houston again

5120
01:53:51.357 --> 01:53:52.292
very carefully.

5121
01:53:52.292 --> 01:53:53.076
In this case,

5122
01:53:53.076 --> 01:53:53.760
we understand

5123
01:53:53.760 --> 01:53:54.811
the asteroid, the environment.

5124
01:53:54.811 --> 01:53:56.646
We measured it with osiris-rex

5125
01:53:56.646 --> 01:53:57.697
other asteroid samples

5126
01:53:57.697 --> 01:53:59.399
from our colleagues in Japan.

5127
01:53:59.399 --> 01:54:00.116
And so we don't

5128
01:54:00.116 --> 01:54:00.783
have to quarantine

5129
01:54:00.783 --> 01:54:01.267
in the same way

5130
01:54:01.267 --> 01:54:02.936
we do have to protect them

5131
01:54:02.936 --> 01:54:04.204
from contamination.

5132
01:54:04.204 --> 01:54:05.138
And there's all kinds

5133
01:54:05.138 --> 01:54:06.306
of systems in place

5134
01:54:06.306 --> 01:54:07.207
by our team

5135
01:54:07.207 --> 01:54:08.057
to allow us

5136
01:54:08.057 --> 01:54:08.825
to understand

5137
01:54:08.825 --> 01:54:10.326
the level of contamination.

5138
01:54:10.326 --> 01:54:11.978
So what we study in science

5139
01:54:11.978 --> 01:54:13.980
is the pristine asteroid.

5140
01:54:13.980 --> 01:54:15.098
That was a great question.

5141
01:54:15.098 --> 01:54:16.049
Excellent question.

5142
01:54:16.049 --> 01:54:17.317
Excellent question.

5143
01:54:17.317 --> 01:54:18.034
Mr.

5144
01:54:18.034 --> 01:54:20.036
Martians, this hour is bagged

5145
01:54:20.036 --> 01:54:20.737
and secured

5146
01:54:20.737 --> 01:54:22.205
in the hand and texture.

5147
01:54:22.205 --> 01:54:22.805
All right.

5148
01:54:22.805 --> 01:54:23.606
You just heard that

5149
01:54:23.606 --> 01:54:26.125
the SIRC has been banned

5150
01:54:26.125 --> 01:54:27.026
and we are

5151
01:54:27.026 --> 01:54:27.877
well on our way

5152
01:54:27.877 --> 01:54:28.328
to getting that

5153
01:54:28.328 --> 01:54:29.646
to our clean room here

5154
01:54:29.646 --> 01:54:30.813
at Dugway.

5155
01:54:30.813 --> 01:54:31.147
Wow.

5156
01:54:31.147 --> 01:54:32.649
Fantastic news

5157
01:54:32.649 --> 01:54:33.867
missions like Osiris-rex

5158
01:54:33.867 --> 01:54:35.552
transform scientific pursuits

5159
01:54:35.552 --> 01:54:37.587
into engineering challenges.

5160
01:54:37.587 --> 01:54:38.555
Smart, curious people

5161
01:54:38.555 --> 01:54:39.205
with pursue

5162
01:54:39.205 --> 01:54:40.523
pursue answers with creative

5163
01:54:40.523 --> 01:54:42.275
verve and perseverance.

5164
01:54:42.275 --> 01:54:42.926
This year,

5165
01:54:42.926 --> 01:54:44.794
Hollywood also had a story

5166
01:54:44.794 --> 01:54:45.845
about a crowd of people

5167
01:54:45.845 --> 01:54:47.964
situated around the touchdown

5168
01:54:47.964 --> 01:54:49.616
point of an asteroid.

5169
01:54:49.616 --> 01:54:50.700
And while we couldn't

5170
01:54:50.700 --> 01:54:51.568
help ourselves,

5171
01:54:51.568 --> 01:54:53.303
we asked the cast of Asteroid

5172
01:54:53.303 --> 01:55:05.748
City to say a few words.

5173
01:55:05.815 --> 01:55:06.299
All right,

5174
01:55:06.299 --> 01:55:06.816
Well, it looks like

5175
01:55:06.816 --> 01:55:07.417
we are having

5176
01:55:07.417 --> 01:55:08.851
some technical difficulties,

5177
01:55:08.851 --> 01:55:09.385
but that's okay.

5178
01:55:09.385 --> 01:55:10.086
We'll definitely get you

5179
01:55:10.086 --> 01:55:10.503
that video.

5180
01:55:10.503 --> 01:55:11.371
It's a really fun one.

5181
01:55:11.371 --> 01:55:11.754
It is.

5182
01:55:11.754 --> 01:55:12.488
Scarlett Johansson,

5183
01:55:12.488 --> 01:55:13.289
I mean, A-lister.

5184
01:55:13.289 --> 01:55:14.824
Can you imagine?

5185
01:55:14.824 --> 01:55:15.208
All right.

5186
01:55:15.208 --> 01:55:16.342
So let's get an update

5187
01:55:16.342 --> 01:55:17.093
from our field

5188
01:55:17.093 --> 01:55:18.294
correspondent, Sophia.

5189
01:55:18.294 --> 01:55:18.661
Sophia,

5190
01:55:18.661 --> 01:55:23.049
do you have an update for us?

5191
01:55:23.132 --> 01:55:24.067
Okay, Lauren.

5192
01:55:24.067 --> 01:55:26.152
Turns out the landing site

5193
01:55:26.152 --> 01:55:27.086
really is

5194
01:55:27.086 --> 01:55:28.388
just over my shoulder.

5195
01:55:28.388 --> 01:55:28.655
It is

5196
01:55:28.655 --> 01:55:30.239
just so hard to see

5197
01:55:30.239 --> 01:55:31.708
through the alkaline

5198
01:55:31.708 --> 01:55:33.059
particulate out here

5199
01:55:33.059 --> 01:55:34.043
on the landing zone.

5200
01:55:34.043 --> 01:55:34.861
But you know what?

5201
01:55:34.861 --> 01:55:37.046
This is all in great hands.

5202
01:55:37.046 --> 01:55:38.915
And we are just very thrilled

5203
01:55:38.915 --> 01:55:40.650
that the capsule is doing

5204
01:55:40.650 --> 01:55:41.884
well today.

5205
01:55:41.884 --> 01:55:43.736
So I'm able to see

5206
01:55:43.736 --> 01:55:45.004
one of the helicopters

5207
01:55:45.004 --> 01:55:46.656
just circling over there.

5208
01:55:46.656 --> 01:55:47.523
But for those of you

5209
01:55:47.523 --> 01:55:49.075
who have just tuned

5210
01:55:49.075 --> 01:55:50.793
in, I am on Wigg Mountain,

5211
01:55:50.793 --> 01:55:51.778
which is overlooking

5212
01:55:51.778 --> 01:55:52.645
the Ellipse,

5213
01:55:52.645 --> 01:55:55.381
which is the vast landing zone.

5214
01:55:55.381 --> 01:55:56.733
And earlier today,

5215
01:55:56.733 --> 01:55:57.900
the helicopters,

5216
01:55:57.900 --> 01:55:59.102
which were shuttling our

5217
01:55:59.102 --> 01:56:01.838
teams of experts and our

5218
01:56:01.921 --> 01:56:03.423
departed from here

5219
01:56:03.423 --> 01:56:04.223
via helicopter

5220
01:56:04.223 --> 01:56:04.958
once they found out

5221
01:56:04.958 --> 01:56:06.025
exactly where

5222
01:56:06.025 --> 01:56:07.293
the capsule landed.

5223
01:56:07.293 --> 01:56:08.528
And now they're off

5224
01:56:08.528 --> 01:56:10.013
on their recovery process

5225
01:56:10.013 --> 01:56:11.698
and are doing what they do,

5226
01:56:11.698 --> 01:56:13.316
which has been a carefully

5227
01:56:13.316 --> 01:56:15.034
rehearsed process.

5228
01:56:15.034 --> 01:56:16.235
So, Lauren, I'm

5229
01:56:16.235 --> 01:56:18.871
going to send it back to you.

5230
01:56:18.871 --> 01:56:19.238
Great.

5231
01:56:19.238 --> 01:56:21.574
Thank so much, Sophia.

5232
01:56:21.574 --> 01:56:22.108
All right.

5233
01:56:22.108 --> 01:56:23.676
Well, let's get back to that

5234
01:56:23.676 --> 01:56:25.328
awesome video of Asteroid City.

5235
01:56:25.328 --> 01:56:26.646
You don't want to miss this.

5236
01:56:26.646 --> 01:56:31.234
Take a look.

5237
01:56:31.317 --> 01:56:32.969
I am Jason Schwartzman.

5238
01:56:32.969 --> 01:56:33.987
I'm Jake Ryan.

5239
01:56:33.987 --> 01:56:35.638
And I'm Scarlett Johansson.

5240
01:56:35.638 --> 01:56:36.472
Where are you?

5241
01:56:36.472 --> 01:56:37.907
Asteroid City farmer.

5242
01:56:37.907 --> 01:56:39.242
Six miles, 70.

5243
01:56:39.242 --> 01:56:39.776
Hey, everyone.

5244
01:56:39.776 --> 01:56:40.977
I'm Jeffrey Wright, Junior,

5245
01:56:40.977 --> 01:56:43.262
Stargazers and space cadet.

5246
01:56:43.262 --> 01:56:43.896
Each year

5247
01:56:43.896 --> 01:56:45.515
we celebrate Asteroid Day.

5248
01:56:45.515 --> 01:56:46.115
Hey, everyone.

5249
01:56:46.115 --> 01:56:46.949
I'm Maya Hawke,

5250
01:56:46.949 --> 01:56:48.217
and I'm Rupert friend.

5251
01:56:48.217 --> 01:56:49.886
And we star in West

5252
01:56:49.886 --> 01:56:51.454
Anderson's new movie,

5253
01:56:51.454 --> 01:56:52.622
Asteroid City.

5254
01:56:52.622 --> 01:56:54.023
In the movie, families

5255
01:56:54.023 --> 01:56:55.324
from across the country gather

5256
01:56:55.324 --> 01:56:56.392
in a fictional American

5257
01:56:56.392 --> 01:56:57.126
desert town

5258
01:56:57.126 --> 01:56:57.877
for a junior

5259
01:56:57.877 --> 01:56:59.696
stargazer convention.

5260
01:56:59.696 --> 01:57:00.396
I heard there's

5261
01:57:00.396 --> 01:57:01.381
a real life reason

5262
01:57:01.381 --> 01:57:02.281
people will be gathering

5263
01:57:02.281 --> 01:57:03.216
in the Utah desert

5264
01:57:03.216 --> 01:57:04.133
this September.

5265
01:57:04.133 --> 01:57:04.884
The world will

5266
01:57:04.884 --> 01:57:05.935
never be the same.

5267
01:57:05.935 --> 01:57:07.537
What is happening there

5268
01:57:07.537 --> 01:57:12.909
on September 24th?

5269
01:57:12.992 --> 01:57:14.494
September 24th is going

5270
01:57:14.494 --> 01:57:16.029
to be a historic day.

5271
01:57:16.029 --> 01:57:17.430
This is NASA's first

5272
01:57:17.430 --> 01:57:19.532
asteroid sample return mission.

5273
01:57:19.532 --> 01:57:21.234
And the biggest sample return

5274
01:57:21.234 --> 01:57:22.468
beyond the moon.

5275
01:57:22.468 --> 01:57:23.970
Shortly before 9 a.m.

5276
01:57:23.970 --> 01:57:25.021
local time,

5277
01:57:25.021 --> 01:57:25.855
Cyrus Rex

5278
01:57:25.855 --> 01:57:26.939
spacecraft

5279
01:57:26.939 --> 01:57:28.374
carrying precious samples

5280
01:57:28.374 --> 01:57:29.876
of asteroid BENNU

5281
01:57:29.876 --> 01:57:31.344
will release capsule

5282
01:57:31.344 --> 01:57:32.428
into the atmosphere

5283
01:57:32.428 --> 01:57:33.663
to lower the samples

5284
01:57:33.663 --> 01:57:35.014
down to the Utah desert,

5285
01:57:35.014 --> 01:57:35.765
where scientists

5286
01:57:35.765 --> 01:57:37.417
are anxiously awaiting

5287
01:57:37.417 --> 01:57:39.068
the return of these materials.

5288
01:57:39.068 --> 01:57:39.335
Wow.

5289
01:57:39.335 --> 01:57:39.869
That sounds like

5290
01:57:39.869 --> 01:57:40.686
the plot of a science

5291
01:57:40.686 --> 01:57:41.587
fiction film.

5292
01:57:41.587 --> 01:57:42.205
It's incredible

5293
01:57:42.205 --> 01:57:43.172
that a spacecraft

5294
01:57:43.172 --> 01:57:44.607
can go to an asteroid,

5295
01:57:44.607 --> 01:57:45.691
grab some pieces of it,

5296
01:57:45.691 --> 01:57:47.093
and then bring them to Earth.

5297
01:57:47.093 --> 01:57:48.444
So what will NASA's

5298
01:57:48.444 --> 01:57:52.398
look for within the asteroid?

5299
01:57:52.465 --> 01:57:53.282
These pristine

5300
01:57:53.282 --> 01:57:54.667
asteroid materials

5301
01:57:54.667 --> 01:57:56.069
will be studied by scientists

5302
01:57:56.069 --> 01:57:57.453
from around the world.

5303
01:57:57.453 --> 01:57:58.171
We're going to be looking

5304
01:57:58.171 --> 01:57:58.805
at the minerals

5305
01:57:58.805 --> 01:58:00.273
and dissecting the rocks,

5306
01:58:00.273 --> 01:58:01.407
looking at a mineral grain

5307
01:58:01.407 --> 01:58:02.458
by mineral grain

5308
01:58:02.458 --> 01:58:02.992
to learn

5309
01:58:02.992 --> 01:58:04.644
more about how the solar system

5310
01:58:04.644 --> 01:58:06.362
formed and evolved.

5311
01:58:06.362 --> 01:58:07.146
We're also going to be

5312
01:58:07.146 --> 01:58:08.281
looking for water

5313
01:58:08.281 --> 01:58:09.549
to try to understand

5314
01:58:09.549 --> 01:58:10.833
how our Earth's oceans

5315
01:58:10.833 --> 01:58:12.068
came to be.

5316
01:58:12.068 --> 01:58:12.935
And then finally,

5317
01:58:12.935 --> 01:58:13.619
we're going to be looking

5318
01:58:13.619 --> 01:58:14.854
at organic compounds,

5319
01:58:14.854 --> 01:58:16.105
including some of the basic

5320
01:58:16.105 --> 01:58:17.190
chemical building

5321
01:58:17.190 --> 01:58:18.474
blocks of life,

5322
01:58:18.474 --> 01:58:19.408
to try to understand

5323
01:58:19.408 --> 01:58:21.327
whether asteroids like Bennu

5324
01:58:21.327 --> 01:58:22.178
could have delivered

5325
01:58:22.178 --> 01:58:22.945
the building blocks

5326
01:58:22.945 --> 01:58:23.396
to earth,

5327
01:58:23.396 --> 01:58:25.047
leading to the origin of life

5328
01:58:25.047 --> 01:58:25.598
on Earth

5329
01:58:25.598 --> 01:58:26.916
and potentially elsewhere.

5330
01:58:26.916 --> 01:58:28.167
With the data that we obtained

5331
01:58:28.167 --> 01:58:29.035
from these materials,

5332
01:58:29.035 --> 01:58:30.036
we're going to be rewriting

5333
01:58:30.036 --> 01:58:30.987
the textbooks

5334
01:58:30.987 --> 01:58:33.089
on solar system formation.

5335
01:58:33.089 --> 01:58:34.924
Fascinating stuff.

5336
01:58:35.007 --> 01:58:36.125
But don't

5337
01:58:36.125 --> 01:58:37.260
fragments of asteroids

5338
01:58:37.260 --> 01:58:38.678
land on Earth all the time?

5339
01:58:38.678 --> 01:58:39.695
Why can't we

5340
01:58:39.695 --> 01:58:40.413
those pieces

5341
01:58:40.413 --> 01:58:41.280
instead of a mission

5342
01:58:41.280 --> 01:58:42.482
to bring this sample

5343
01:58:42.482 --> 01:58:43.232
to the earth?

5344
01:58:43.232 --> 01:58:44.517
Yeah, that's a great question.

5345
01:58:44.517 --> 01:58:45.368
I mean, in fact,

5346
01:58:45.368 --> 01:58:46.502
the Earth is constantly

5347
01:58:46.502 --> 01:58:47.587
being bombarded

5348
01:58:47.587 --> 01:58:48.805
by fragments of asteroids

5349
01:58:48.805 --> 01:58:50.373
in the form of meteorites.

5350
01:58:50.373 --> 01:58:51.457
But one of the big problems

5351
01:58:51.457 --> 01:58:52.625
with studying meteorites is you

5352
01:58:52.625 --> 01:58:53.426
don't always know

5353
01:58:53.426 --> 01:58:54.360
where they came from.

5354
01:58:54.360 --> 01:58:55.478
And it also can be

5355
01:58:55.478 --> 01:58:56.913
contaminated.

5356
01:58:56.913 --> 01:58:57.864
Fair enough.

5357
01:58:57.864 --> 01:58:59.699
It makes sense that we to study

5358
01:58:59.699 --> 01:59:00.983
something more pristine.

5359
01:59:00.983 --> 01:59:02.235
So how will nausea

5360
01:59:02.235 --> 01:59:03.686
protect the sample once

5361
01:59:03.686 --> 01:59:04.837
it's on earth?

5362
01:59:04.837 --> 01:59:07.824
And can I have some?

5363
01:59:07.890 --> 01:59:08.724
I wish we could have

5364
01:59:08.724 --> 01:59:09.609
some of these samples.

5365
01:59:09.609 --> 01:59:10.676
I wish I could bring one home

5366
01:59:10.676 --> 01:59:11.460
with me

5367
01:59:11.460 --> 01:59:12.628
to put on my dresser at home.

5368
01:59:12.628 --> 01:59:13.563
But the reality is,

5369
01:59:13.563 --> 01:59:14.313
these samples

5370
01:59:14.313 --> 01:59:14.914
will only be

5371
01:59:14.914 --> 01:59:16.732
for educational purposes

5372
01:59:16.732 --> 01:59:18.184
in scientific research.

5373
01:59:18.184 --> 01:59:19.652
The samples will be transported

5374
01:59:19.652 --> 01:59:20.369
to the NASA's

5375
01:59:20.369 --> 01:59:21.871
Johnson Space Center,

5376
01:59:21.871 --> 01:59:22.505
where they've built

5377
01:59:22.505 --> 01:59:24.240
a special curation facility

5378
01:59:24.240 --> 01:59:25.224
just for keeping these

5379
01:59:25.224 --> 01:59:27.727
samples safe and pristine.

5380
01:59:27.810 --> 01:59:29.145
This is all so incredible.

5381
01:59:29.145 --> 01:59:29.679
I don't know.

5382
01:59:29.679 --> 01:59:31.113
I'm so glad that NASA's

5383
01:59:31.113 --> 01:59:32.315
teams of people

5384
01:59:32.315 --> 01:59:33.299
that are searching

5385
01:59:33.299 --> 01:59:34.083
for the answers

5386
01:59:34.083 --> 01:59:34.567
to some of the

5387
01:59:34.567 --> 01:59:36.235
biggest questions like

5388
01:59:36.235 --> 01:59:37.320
where did life and water

5389
01:59:37.320 --> 01:59:38.254
come from?

5390
01:59:38.254 --> 01:59:40.056
How did where our solar system

5391
01:59:40.056 --> 01:59:40.590
come from?

5392
01:59:40.590 --> 01:59:41.874
I can't wait to see

5393
01:59:41.874 --> 01:59:43.025
what we learn from

5394
01:59:43.025 --> 01:59:44.427
the asteroid sample

5395
01:59:44.427 --> 01:59:46.028
Osiris-rex is bringing to earth

5396
01:59:46.028 --> 01:59:46.596
like thank you

5397
01:59:46.596 --> 01:59:48.030
for all that you do.

5398
01:59:48.030 --> 01:59:49.382
This is also incredible.

5399
01:59:49.382 --> 01:59:50.283
Thank you

5400
01:59:50.283 --> 01:59:51.834
so much for all you do.

5401
01:59:51.834 --> 01:59:53.336
Well, you just said that name.

5402
01:59:53.336 --> 01:59:55.104
You just said Cyrus Rex.

5403
01:59:55.104 --> 01:59:56.706
That was the thing that was.

5404
01:59:56.706 --> 01:59:57.690
That was kick ass.

5405
01:59:57.690 --> 01:59:58.407
How did you do that?

5406
01:59:58.407 --> 01:59:59.942
I was like, What is this for?

5407
01:59:59.942 --> 02:00:01.944
I was like a Cyrus rex.

5408
02:00:01.944 --> 02:00:02.762
Cyrus Rex?

5409
02:00:02.762 --> 02:00:04.347
Yeah, it was Highness

5410
02:00:04.347 --> 02:00:07.233
the Cyrus Rex.

5411
02:00:07.316 --> 02:00:07.767
Wow.

5412
02:00:07.767 --> 02:00:08.668
Talk about that Mega

5413
02:00:08.668 --> 02:00:09.068
wanted

5414
02:00:09.068 --> 02:00:13.005
star and garlic wine guy.

5415
02:00:13.072 --> 02:00:14.907
It takes a huge, talented team

5416
02:00:14.907 --> 02:00:16.409
with profoundly diverse skills

5417
02:00:16.409 --> 02:00:17.577
to design and execute

5418
02:00:17.577 --> 02:00:19.262
something as audacious

5419
02:00:19.262 --> 02:00:20.580
as osiris-rex.

5420
02:00:20.580 --> 02:00:21.664
It takes years of planning

5421
02:00:21.664 --> 02:00:22.615
and perseverance

5422
02:00:22.615 --> 02:00:23.616
to see it through from that

5423
02:00:23.616 --> 02:00:25.434
initial notepad doodle

5424
02:00:25.434 --> 02:00:26.035
to a moment

5425
02:00:26.035 --> 02:00:26.969
when the world tunes

5426
02:00:26.969 --> 02:00:29.071
in to celebrate a huge success.

5427
02:00:29.071 --> 02:00:30.840
It also takes leadership,

5428
02:00:30.840 --> 02:00:31.824
and I'm pleased to say

5429
02:00:31.824 --> 02:00:32.858
that we are now joined

5430
02:00:32.858 --> 02:00:34.076
by the director of NASA's

5431
02:00:34.076 --> 02:00:34.627
Goddard Space

5432
02:00:34.627 --> 02:00:35.678
Flight Center, Dr.

5433
02:00:35.678 --> 02:00:37.897
McKenzie Lastra. Welcome.

5434
02:00:37.897 --> 02:00:38.998
Thank you so much.

5435
02:00:38.998 --> 02:00:40.733
I'm delighted to be here

5436
02:00:40.733 --> 02:00:41.550
and very happy

5437
02:00:41.550 --> 02:00:42.184
about the results

5438
02:00:42.184 --> 02:00:43.052
coming out today.

5439
02:00:43.052 --> 02:00:44.754
It is a great day indeed.

5440
02:00:44.754 --> 02:00:45.938
And congratulations.

5441
02:00:45.938 --> 02:00:47.556
This is a huge day for Goddard

5442
02:00:47.556 --> 02:00:48.541
and must go without saying

5443
02:00:48.541 --> 02:00:50.126
that you are very proud.

5444
02:00:50.126 --> 02:00:50.726
Absolutely.

5445
02:00:50.726 --> 02:00:52.561
This team is amazing.

5446
02:00:52.561 --> 02:00:53.246
They've been through

5447
02:00:53.246 --> 02:00:55.197
so much for so long.

5448
02:00:55.197 --> 02:00:57.416
Goddard Space Flight Center.

5449
02:00:57.416 --> 02:00:58.618
The special thing

5450
02:00:58.618 --> 02:00:59.785
about NASA's Science

5451
02:00:59.785 --> 02:01:00.836
center, Goddard,

5452
02:01:00.836 --> 02:01:01.537
is that we have

5453
02:01:01.537 --> 02:01:03.389
scientists and engineers

5454
02:01:03.389 --> 02:01:05.308
working side by side.

5455
02:01:05.308 --> 02:01:08.010
And so that doodle on a napkin

5456
02:01:08.010 --> 02:01:09.061
can turn into something

5457
02:01:09.061 --> 02:01:10.613
like Osiris-rex.

5458
02:01:10.613 --> 02:01:12.748
And scientists like Dr.

5459
02:01:12.748 --> 02:01:14.817
Garvin here, who's joined us,

5460
02:01:14.817 --> 02:01:17.370
really help us create a vision

5461
02:01:17.370 --> 02:01:19.088
with other scientists

5462
02:01:19.088 --> 02:01:20.523
of how you're going to do

5463
02:01:20.523 --> 02:01:21.774
the engineering

5464
02:01:21.774 --> 02:01:23.426
that gets you

5465
02:01:23.426 --> 02:01:23.943
to this

5466
02:01:23.943 --> 02:01:26.045
this moment that we have today.

5467
02:01:26.045 --> 02:01:26.762
And McKenzie,

5468
02:01:26.762 --> 02:01:28.414
we have leadership across

5469
02:01:28.414 --> 02:01:29.649
all domains on this mission,

5470
02:01:29.649 --> 02:01:30.816
from system engineering

5471
02:01:30.816 --> 02:01:31.467
to science

5472
02:01:31.467 --> 02:01:33.352
to accounting to everything.

5473
02:01:33.352 --> 02:01:34.887
How did your team in Maryland

5474
02:01:34.887 --> 02:01:35.972
pull this thing off?

5475
02:01:35.972 --> 02:01:36.906
Yeah,

5476
02:01:36.906 --> 02:01:37.206
you know,

5477
02:01:37.206 --> 02:01:40.192
we have people who have managed

5478
02:01:40.192 --> 02:01:42.061
multiple parts of missions

5479
02:01:42.061 --> 02:01:44.113
over the decades.

5480
02:01:44.196 --> 02:01:45.214
Systems engineering is

5481
02:01:45.214 --> 02:01:45.698
critical

5482
02:01:45.698 --> 02:01:47.166
and it's one of the things

5483
02:01:47.166 --> 02:01:47.767
that Goddard

5484
02:01:47.767 --> 02:01:49.018
really brings to the table.

5485
02:01:49.018 --> 02:01:50.102
And systems engineering

5486
02:01:50.102 --> 02:01:53.255
means that we take into account

5487
02:01:53.255 --> 02:01:54.056
everything about

5488
02:01:54.056 --> 02:01:55.524
the mission from

5489
02:01:55.524 --> 02:01:56.692
the science ideas

5490
02:01:56.692 --> 02:01:57.510
to the launch

5491
02:01:57.510 --> 02:01:59.161
to orchestrating

5492
02:01:59.161 --> 02:02:01.047
the landing here on Earth,

5493
02:02:01.047 --> 02:02:02.431
but making sure that all of

5494
02:02:02.431 --> 02:02:03.683
the instruments are

5495
02:02:03.683 --> 02:02:05.067
working together,

5496
02:02:05.067 --> 02:02:07.620
making sure that the spacecraft

5497
02:02:07.620 --> 02:02:09.238
successfully interfaces

5498
02:02:09.238 --> 02:02:10.806
with the instruments

5499
02:02:10.806 --> 02:02:12.508
and can carry out its job

5500
02:02:12.508 --> 02:02:13.776
once it at bennu.

5501
02:02:13.776 --> 02:02:14.243
All of that

5502
02:02:14.243 --> 02:02:16.028
requires really understanding

5503
02:02:16.028 --> 02:02:17.546
the entire system.

5504
02:02:17.546 --> 02:02:18.180
So when we say

5505
02:02:18.180 --> 02:02:19.598
systems engineering,

5506
02:02:19.598 --> 02:02:20.483
we're really talking

5507
02:02:20.483 --> 02:02:24.253
about that overarching holistic

5508
02:02:24.337 --> 02:02:26.105
perspective that our scientists

5509
02:02:26.105 --> 02:02:26.756
and our engineers

5510
02:02:26.756 --> 02:02:27.773
bring to the table.

5511
02:02:27.773 --> 02:02:28.290
But it's true

5512
02:02:28.290 --> 02:02:28.924
that we have

5513
02:02:28.924 --> 02:02:30.743
some of the greatest scientists

5514
02:02:30.743 --> 02:02:31.327
and engineers

5515
02:02:31.327 --> 02:02:33.145
working on space missions,

5516
02:02:33.145 --> 02:02:34.413
and they

5517
02:02:34.413 --> 02:02:37.033
they pull it off every time.

5518
02:02:37.116 --> 02:02:37.717
Well, you know,

5519
02:02:37.717 --> 02:02:39.218
really quickly here,

5520
02:02:39.218 --> 02:02:39.869
Goddard will be

5521
02:02:39.869 --> 02:02:40.586
one of the centers

5522
02:02:40.586 --> 02:02:41.637
that will receive a sample.

5523
02:02:41.637 --> 02:02:43.522
But who else will?

5524
02:02:43.522 --> 02:02:45.908
A sample of the asteroid

5525
02:02:45.908 --> 02:02:47.243
samples are really traveling

5526
02:02:47.243 --> 02:02:48.778
all around the world.

5527
02:02:48.778 --> 02:02:49.228
What I think

5528
02:02:49.228 --> 02:02:51.147
is very exciting about this

5529
02:02:51.147 --> 02:02:51.897
mission

5530
02:02:51.897 --> 02:02:55.634
is that we're saving about 75%

5531
02:02:55.718 --> 02:02:56.135
and we're not

5532
02:02:56.135 --> 02:02:57.269
sending that out yet.

5533
02:02:57.269 --> 02:02:58.704
We're keeping that in storage

5534
02:02:58.704 --> 02:03:00.539
for future generations

5535
02:03:00.539 --> 02:03:01.323
to be able to use

5536
02:03:01.323 --> 02:03:02.458
more advanced methods

5537
02:03:02.458 --> 02:03:03.125
and instruments

5538
02:03:03.125 --> 02:03:04.326
to be able to analyze.

5539
02:03:04.326 --> 02:03:06.328
So about 25% of that material

5540
02:03:06.328 --> 02:03:07.346
is going to be headed

5541
02:03:07.346 --> 02:03:09.181
to scientific organizations

5542
02:03:09.181 --> 02:03:10.566
all around the globe.

5543
02:03:10.566 --> 02:03:11.884
Fantastic. Unbelievable.

5544
02:03:11.884 --> 02:03:12.001
Well,

5545
02:03:12.001 --> 02:03:12.935
thank you so much

5546
02:03:12.935 --> 02:03:14.070
for joining us this morning.

5547
02:03:14.070 --> 02:03:14.603
Thank you.

5548
02:03:14.603 --> 02:03:15.204
Thank you, sir.

5549
02:03:15.204 --> 02:03:17.223
Graduation? Yes.

5550
02:03:17.223 --> 02:03:18.207
There's a big team

5551
02:03:18.207 --> 02:03:19.592
of scientists, engineers

5552
02:03:19.592 --> 02:03:21.360
and so many others here in Utah

5553
02:03:21.360 --> 02:03:23.763
working to make OpEx a success.

5554
02:03:23.763 --> 02:03:25.114
It should go without saying.

5555
02:03:25.114 --> 02:03:25.915
Everyone here

5556
02:03:25.915 --> 02:03:27.083
is mission critical.

5557
02:03:27.083 --> 02:03:28.117
From bus drivers

5558
02:03:28.117 --> 02:03:29.769
to planetary geologists,

5559
02:03:29.769 --> 02:03:30.636
helicopter pilots

5560
02:03:30.636 --> 02:03:32.371
to logistics experts

5561
02:03:32.371 --> 02:03:32.938
with all of the

5562
02:03:32.938 --> 02:03:33.806
natural excitement

5563
02:03:33.806 --> 02:03:35.107
about the mission itself.

5564
02:03:35.107 --> 02:03:36.425
Let's stop for a few minutes

5565
02:03:36.425 --> 02:03:36.959
and highlight

5566
02:03:36.959 --> 02:03:38.577
those in Osiris-rex

5567
02:03:38.577 --> 02:03:40.646
who made it live and breathe.

5568
02:03:40.646 --> 02:04:42.224
Take a look.

5569
02:04:42.308 --> 02:04:43.425
Boy, it's really hard not to

5570
02:04:43.425 --> 02:04:44.426
get slow

5571
02:04:44.426 --> 02:04:45.628
when you see all those faces.

5572
02:04:45.628 --> 02:04:46.529
These are a lot of the people

5573
02:04:46.529 --> 02:04:47.196
that we've been seeing

5574
02:04:47.196 --> 02:04:48.063
over the last few days,

5575
02:04:48.063 --> 02:04:48.714
and they're getting

5576
02:04:48.714 --> 02:04:49.899
their time in the sun.

5577
02:04:49.899 --> 02:04:50.216
All right,

5578
02:04:50.216 --> 02:04:51.217
let's throw it over to James

5579
02:04:51.217 --> 02:04:52.168
for an operational update.

5580
02:04:52.168 --> 02:04:53.035
Take it away, James.

5581
02:04:53.035 --> 02:04:53.752
Yeah. Thanks, Lance.

5582
02:04:53.752 --> 02:04:54.720
So while we've been kind

5583
02:04:54.720 --> 02:04:55.104
of waiting

5584
02:04:55.104 --> 02:04:55.437
for the past

5585
02:04:55.437 --> 02:04:56.071
couple of minutes here,

5586
02:04:56.071 --> 02:04:56.755
the team has actually

5587
02:04:56.755 --> 02:04:57.957
successfully bagged

5588
02:04:57.957 --> 02:04:58.657
and prepared

5589
02:04:58.657 --> 02:04:59.859
the sample return capsule

5590
02:04:59.859 --> 02:05:00.993
for the long operations.

5591
02:05:00.993 --> 02:05:02.011
You can see on your screen

5592
02:05:02.011 --> 02:05:02.728
right now

5593
02:05:02.728 --> 02:05:04.196
the CRC is bagged

5594
02:05:04.196 --> 02:05:05.731
within thermal blanketing

5595
02:05:05.731 --> 02:05:06.782
and that metal thing you see on

5596
02:05:06.782 --> 02:05:07.116
the bottom

5597
02:05:07.116 --> 02:05:09.001
is the carrying fixture.

5598
02:05:09.001 --> 02:05:09.268
This will

5599
02:05:09.268 --> 02:05:10.169
then be actually loaded up

5600
02:05:10.169 --> 02:05:11.854
into cargo netting and prepared

5601
02:05:11.854 --> 02:05:13.556
for long line operations.

5602
02:05:13.556 --> 02:05:14.456
One of our helicopters

5603
02:05:14.456 --> 02:05:15.624
will take flight

5604
02:05:15.624 --> 02:05:17.426
carrying the CRC dangling

5605
02:05:17.426 --> 02:05:18.544
beneath it.

5606
02:05:18.544 --> 02:05:19.295
The S or C is going

5607
02:05:19.295 --> 02:05:20.279
to be stabilized.

5608
02:05:20.279 --> 02:05:20.946
That cargo netting,

5609
02:05:20.946 --> 02:05:22.231
there is a gimbal

5610
02:05:22.231 --> 02:05:23.365
that will keep it stable

5611
02:05:23.365 --> 02:05:24.717
as we begin the flight

5612
02:05:24.717 --> 02:05:25.885
to the clean room

5613
02:05:25.885 --> 02:05:27.269
with our precious cargo

5614
02:05:27.269 --> 02:05:28.470
on board.

5615
02:05:28.470 --> 02:05:28.921
You'll notice

5616
02:05:28.921 --> 02:05:29.438
a couple of

5617
02:05:29.438 --> 02:05:30.389
tape markers on that

5618
02:05:30.389 --> 02:05:31.323
as sar C as well.

5619
02:05:31.323 --> 02:05:32.458
The thermal blanketing there.

5620
02:05:32.458 --> 02:05:33.976
Those are pieces of capped

5621
02:05:33.976 --> 02:05:34.710
on tape

5622
02:05:34.710 --> 02:05:35.644
marking exactly

5623
02:05:35.644 --> 02:05:36.929
where events are on

5624
02:05:36.929 --> 02:05:37.947
that as our C for team

5625
02:05:37.947 --> 02:05:39.448
members here at the cleanroom

5626
02:05:39.448 --> 02:05:40.916
who will once again do gas

5627
02:05:40.916 --> 02:05:41.967
and thermal readings

5628
02:05:41.967 --> 02:05:42.785
once it arrives

5629
02:05:42.785 --> 02:05:43.802
at the clean room.

5630
02:05:43.802 --> 02:05:44.486
Just once again

5631
02:05:44.486 --> 02:05:45.187
making sure team

5632
02:05:45.187 --> 02:05:47.072
members are safe and secure

5633
02:05:47.072 --> 02:05:47.706
as we begin

5634
02:05:47.706 --> 02:05:48.574
to continue

5635
02:05:48.574 --> 02:05:49.775
those recovery operations,

5636
02:05:49.775 --> 02:05:50.459
getting the s

5637
02:05:50.459 --> 02:05:52.077
r c into the clean room.

5638
02:05:52.077 --> 02:05:53.195
And this is

5639
02:05:53.195 --> 02:05:54.029
one of the last phases

5640
02:05:54.029 --> 02:05:54.697
of the process

5641
02:05:54.697 --> 02:05:56.649
of getting our SASE back

5642
02:05:56.649 --> 02:05:57.633
and then opening it up,

5643
02:05:57.633 --> 02:05:58.584
finally seeing that

5644
02:05:58.584 --> 02:05:59.818
sample canister within

5645
02:05:59.818 --> 02:06:00.603
and preparing that

5646
02:06:00.603 --> 02:06:01.887
for shipment tomorrow

5647
02:06:01.887 --> 02:06:03.155
on a C-17 cargo

5648
02:06:03.155 --> 02:06:04.356
plane to the Johnson Space

5649
02:06:04.356 --> 02:06:05.157
Center's Sample

5650
02:06:05.157 --> 02:06:06.892
Duration Facility.

5651
02:06:06.892 --> 02:06:07.326
And this was a

5652
02:06:07.326 --> 02:06:08.277
very quick process.

5653
02:06:08.277 --> 02:06:08.844
I mean,

5654
02:06:08.844 --> 02:06:09.895
if you're keeping time at home,

5655
02:06:09.895 --> 02:06:10.446
this was only a

5656
02:06:10.446 --> 02:06:11.497
maybe about 20 minutes

5657
02:06:11.497 --> 02:06:12.214
that they

5658
02:06:12.214 --> 02:06:13.415
took to get out there.

5659
02:06:13.415 --> 02:06:15.067
And once they arrived and wrap

5660
02:06:15.067 --> 02:06:15.601
everything up

5661
02:06:15.601 --> 02:06:16.535
really quickly,

5662
02:06:16.535 --> 02:06:17.436
once they were given

5663
02:06:17.436 --> 02:06:18.337
the official confirmation

5664
02:06:18.337 --> 02:06:19.622
to approach,

5665
02:06:19.622 --> 02:06:21.173
get everything stored

5666
02:06:21.173 --> 02:06:22.107
prepared for those

5667
02:06:22.107 --> 02:06:23.525
long line operations,

5668
02:06:23.525 --> 02:06:24.660
this really has become

5669
02:06:24.660 --> 02:06:25.344
second nature

5670
02:06:25.344 --> 02:06:26.228
for these team members.

5671
02:06:26.228 --> 02:06:28.530
They really are able to bag

5672
02:06:28.530 --> 02:06:29.515
and prepare

5673
02:06:29.515 --> 02:06:30.716
C and you'll see

5674
02:06:30.716 --> 02:06:31.834
still quite a few flags

5675
02:06:31.834 --> 02:06:32.701
around that area there.

5676
02:06:32.701 --> 02:06:33.719
Once this

5677
02:06:33.719 --> 02:06:36.338
is flown away from the region,

5678
02:06:36.338 --> 02:06:36.772
the landing

5679
02:06:36.772 --> 02:06:37.806
zone team

5680
02:06:37.806 --> 02:06:38.974
members from the curation team

5681
02:06:38.974 --> 02:06:40.676
will remain on site

5682
02:06:40.676 --> 02:06:42.811
and continue to take samples

5683
02:06:42.811 --> 02:06:43.946
of that surrounding area.

5684
02:06:43.946 --> 02:06:45.598
And they also have set up

5685
02:06:45.598 --> 02:06:46.448
off screen here,

5686
02:06:46.448 --> 02:06:46.982
you can see it,

5687
02:06:46.982 --> 02:06:48.934
but there is a air

5688
02:06:48.934 --> 02:06:49.768
reading that they're

5689
02:06:49.768 --> 02:06:50.886
going to be taking a shuttle,

5690
02:06:50.886 --> 02:06:51.954
air samples of the area,

5691
02:06:51.954 --> 02:06:53.255
atmospheric samples.

5692
02:06:53.255 --> 02:06:54.239
All of this will be cross

5693
02:06:54.239 --> 02:06:55.174
correlated with samples

5694
02:06:55.174 --> 02:06:56.158
that we actually get back

5695
02:06:56.158 --> 02:06:57.426
from the asteroid BENNU

5696
02:06:57.426 --> 02:06:58.027
to make sure that

5697
02:06:58.027 --> 02:06:58.827
nothing from Earth

5698
02:06:58.827 --> 02:06:59.762
here at the LC

5699
02:06:59.762 --> 02:07:01.914
or beyond got into that sample

5700
02:07:01.914 --> 02:07:03.098
return capsule.

5701
02:07:03.098 --> 02:07:03.565
And you can see

5702
02:07:03.565 --> 02:07:04.350
some of those team members

5703
02:07:04.350 --> 02:07:04.833
who are going to be

5704
02:07:04.833 --> 02:07:06.518
taking those samples once again

5705
02:07:06.518 --> 02:07:08.103
approaching the location.

5706
02:07:08.103 --> 02:07:08.854
Dante Lauretta

5707
02:07:08.854 --> 02:07:09.955
is front and center with them.

5708
02:07:09.955 --> 02:07:11.940
He has that arm bent on

5709
02:07:11.940 --> 02:07:13.208
and on his left arm.

5710
02:07:13.208 --> 02:07:14.526
You can see it there

5711
02:07:14.526 --> 02:07:15.661
as he's carrying his bucket

5712
02:07:15.661 --> 02:07:16.679
that has all of his tools

5713
02:07:16.679 --> 02:07:18.180
that he needs to begin

5714
02:07:18.180 --> 02:07:19.748
collecting these samples.

5715
02:07:19.748 --> 02:07:21.367
It's a very tight procedure

5716
02:07:21.367 --> 02:07:22.167
that they have to go through

5717
02:07:22.167 --> 02:07:24.036
to make sure that they are

5718
02:07:24.036 --> 02:07:25.087
properly taking these samples.

5719
02:07:25.087 --> 02:07:25.504
You can see

5720
02:07:25.504 --> 02:07:26.405
they are photographing

5721
02:07:26.405 --> 02:07:27.806
the area first,

5722
02:07:27.806 --> 02:07:28.857
documenting exactly

5723
02:07:28.857 --> 02:07:29.274
where they are,

5724
02:07:29.274 --> 02:07:31.143
collecting the sample from the

5725
02:07:31.143 --> 02:07:33.028
then have a small metal scooper

5726
02:07:33.028 --> 02:07:33.662
that they'll use

5727
02:07:33.662 --> 02:07:34.863
to actually dig in

5728
02:07:34.863 --> 02:07:36.515
to the desert surface.

5729
02:07:36.515 --> 02:07:37.650
It's a bit of a soft surface

5730
02:07:37.650 --> 02:07:38.133
out there today.

5731
02:07:38.133 --> 02:07:38.617
As I mentioned,

5732
02:07:38.617 --> 02:07:39.785
we did have some rain

5733
02:07:39.785 --> 02:07:40.502
that softened it up.

5734
02:07:40.502 --> 02:07:41.603
So should be easy to

5735
02:07:41.603 --> 02:07:42.221
dig in there,

5736
02:07:42.221 --> 02:07:43.589
grab a bit of sample,

5737
02:07:43.589 --> 02:07:44.723
and then they will bag

5738
02:07:44.723 --> 02:07:46.892
that sample, seal it up

5739
02:07:46.892 --> 02:07:48.093
and then send that off

5740
02:07:48.093 --> 02:07:49.328
to the sample curation

5741
02:07:49.328 --> 02:07:50.095
team at the Johnson

5742
02:07:50.095 --> 02:07:53.649
Space Center,

5743
02:07:53.732 --> 02:07:55.017
admiring the region as well.

5744
02:07:55.017 --> 02:07:56.101
It's a beautiful, clear

5745
02:07:56.101 --> 02:07:59.104
morning there today.

5746
02:07:59.221 --> 02:08:01.056
We've been rehearsing in

5747
02:08:01.056 --> 02:08:01.473
a variety

5748
02:08:01.473 --> 02:08:02.124
of different conditions,

5749
02:08:02.124 --> 02:08:02.708
including in the

5750
02:08:02.708 --> 02:08:03.325
middle of the summer

5751
02:08:03.325 --> 02:08:04.410
where temperatures are over

5752
02:08:04.410 --> 02:08:05.461
100 degrees Fahrenheit.

5753
02:08:05.461 --> 02:08:06.478
much cooler conditions.

5754
02:08:06.478 --> 02:08:07.312
You can see your team members

5755
02:08:07.312 --> 02:08:09.298
wearing their UV shirts.

5756
02:08:09.298 --> 02:08:10.082
A much chillier

5757
02:08:10.082 --> 02:08:10.866
morning for them

5758
02:08:10.866 --> 02:08:11.633
as they are doing

5759
02:08:11.633 --> 02:08:20.225
these recovery operations.

5760
02:08:20.309 --> 02:08:21.727
And this process

5761
02:08:21.727 --> 02:08:22.594
does take some time

5762
02:08:22.594 --> 02:08:23.278
as they go through

5763
02:08:23.278 --> 02:08:24.930
and collect these samples.

5764
02:08:24.930 --> 02:08:25.597
They want to make sure

5765
02:08:25.597 --> 02:08:25.948
that they're

5766
02:08:25.948 --> 02:08:27.332
accurately documenting exactly

5767
02:08:27.332 --> 02:08:27.833
what's present

5768
02:08:27.833 --> 02:08:28.734
at this landing zone.

5769
02:08:28.734 --> 02:08:29.702
For the team members

5770
02:08:29.702 --> 02:08:31.387
who are at the sample curation

5771
02:08:31.387 --> 02:08:32.221
facility of the Johnson

5772
02:08:32.221 --> 02:08:33.689
Space Center,

5773
02:08:33.689 --> 02:08:34.773
getting a great view

5774
02:08:34.773 --> 02:08:35.791
from NASA helicopter.

5775
02:08:35.791 --> 02:08:36.425
They've been

5776
02:08:36.425 --> 02:08:37.476
doing a phenomenal job

5777
02:08:37.476 --> 02:08:37.943
all morning

5778
02:08:37.943 --> 02:08:39.094
tracking the action for us.

5779
02:08:39.094 --> 02:08:40.612
And we don't give them

5780
02:08:40.612 --> 02:08:41.013
enough credit.

5781
02:08:41.013 --> 02:08:42.097
We've been training, obviously,

5782
02:08:42.097 --> 02:08:42.865
that all of the science

5783
02:08:42.865 --> 02:08:44.633
recovery operations,

5784
02:08:44.633 --> 02:08:45.834
the recovery team is moving.

5785
02:08:45.834 --> 02:08:46.118
Yes.

5786
02:08:46.118 --> 02:08:46.685
Are seem

5787
02:08:46.685 --> 02:08:48.053
to have helped to run

5788
02:08:48.053 --> 02:08:48.804
and preserve

5789
02:08:48.804 --> 02:08:50.606
the long, long operations.

5790
02:08:50.606 --> 02:08:51.507
And there we have it.

5791
02:08:51.507 --> 02:08:52.474
We are going to be moving

5792
02:08:52.474 --> 02:08:53.542
towards those Long

5793
02:08:53.542 --> 02:08:54.293
Island operations.

5794
02:08:54.293 --> 02:08:54.927
The rest of the team

5795
02:08:54.927 --> 02:08:56.011
members approaching

5796
02:08:56.011 --> 02:08:56.845
that, as our see

5797
02:08:56.845 --> 02:08:57.246
that has been

5798
02:08:57.246 --> 02:08:58.263
successfully bagged

5799
02:08:58.263 --> 02:08:59.965
and prepared to be loaded

5800
02:08:59.965 --> 02:09:04.787
into the helicopters long on.

5801
02:09:04.853 --> 02:09:06.572
This will be the last

5802
02:09:06.572 --> 02:09:07.706
time the Siac takes flight.

5803
02:09:07.706 --> 02:09:09.508
We had a wild flight

5804
02:09:09.508 --> 02:09:09.858
this morning.

5805
02:09:09.858 --> 02:09:10.859
You can see two team members

5806
02:09:10.859 --> 02:09:11.944
lifting that SIRC up.

5807
02:09:11.944 --> 02:09:13.495
It's about £120 total.

5808
02:09:13.495 --> 02:09:14.663
Once you have the SLC

5809
02:09:14.663 --> 02:09:15.781
and the carrying fixture

5810
02:09:15.781 --> 02:09:17.466
there together,

5811
02:09:17.466 --> 02:09:18.150
they're going to be walking

5812
02:09:18.150 --> 02:09:18.534
this over,

5813
02:09:18.534 --> 02:09:20.586
preparing it for cargo netting

5814
02:09:20.586 --> 02:09:21.954
and getting that attached

5815
02:09:21.954 --> 02:09:22.838
to the long line

5816
02:09:22.838 --> 02:09:24.773
for helicopter operations.

5817
02:09:24.773 --> 02:09:25.324
And as I mentioned,

5818
02:09:25.324 --> 02:09:25.958
this is the last time

5819
02:09:25.958 --> 02:09:26.725
the SLC is going

5820
02:09:26.725 --> 02:09:27.493
to be taking flight.

5821
02:09:27.493 --> 02:09:28.927
They've had a harrowing journey

5822
02:09:28.927 --> 02:09:29.344
this morning

5823
02:09:29.344 --> 02:09:30.212
coming through the

5824
02:09:30.212 --> 02:09:31.380
Earth's atmosphere at over

5825
02:09:31.380 --> 02:09:33.298
27.000 miles per hour.

5826
02:09:33.298 --> 02:09:34.733
It is now being carried

5827
02:09:34.733 --> 02:09:35.918
carefully by a couple of team

5828
02:09:35.918 --> 02:09:36.418
members here.

5829
02:09:36.418 --> 02:09:38.137
So quite a deceleration

5830
02:09:38.137 --> 02:09:39.538
from that initial entry

5831
02:09:39.538 --> 02:09:40.556
and really just

5832
02:09:40.556 --> 02:09:41.156
a wonderful

5833
02:09:41.156 --> 02:09:41.940
final journey

5834
02:09:41.940 --> 02:09:42.608
for our sample

5835
02:09:42.608 --> 02:09:44.843
before it is opened up

5836
02:09:44.843 --> 02:09:45.694
at the clean room

5837
02:09:45.694 --> 02:09:46.945
and prepared to be shipped

5838
02:09:46.945 --> 02:09:47.579
to this

5839
02:09:47.579 --> 02:09:48.330
to the curation

5840
02:09:48.330 --> 02:09:52.084
facility at Johnson.

5841
02:09:52.167 --> 02:09:52.718
And as I mentioned,

5842
02:09:52.718 --> 02:09:53.786
this view is coming from

5843
02:09:53.786 --> 02:09:54.303
one of our NASA

5844
02:09:54.303 --> 02:09:55.254
helicopters,

5845
02:09:55.254 --> 02:09:56.004
just like the science

5846
02:09:56.004 --> 02:09:56.588
and engineering

5847
02:09:56.588 --> 02:09:57.322
engineering teams

5848
02:09:57.322 --> 02:09:58.223
have been preparing for

5849
02:09:58.223 --> 02:09:58.557
this key

5850
02:09:58.557 --> 02:09:59.792
moment are NASA's

5851
02:09:59.792 --> 02:10:00.692
helicopter pilots

5852
02:10:00.692 --> 02:10:01.560
also been preparing

5853
02:10:01.560 --> 02:10:03.395
to cover today's events?

5854
02:10:03.395 --> 02:10:04.112
They're typically down

5855
02:10:04.112 --> 02:10:04.530
at Kennedy

5856
02:10:04.530 --> 02:10:05.881
Space Center in Florida,

5857
02:10:05.881 --> 02:10:07.132
capturing launch coverage

5858
02:10:07.132 --> 02:10:08.617
from Cape Canaveral.

5859
02:10:08.617 --> 02:10:10.202
But this past couple of months

5860
02:10:10.202 --> 02:10:10.769
they've been out here

5861
02:10:10.769 --> 02:10:12.004
with us at the Utah Test

5862
02:10:12.004 --> 02:10:12.838
and Training Range,

5863
02:10:12.838 --> 02:10:13.889
preparing to document

5864
02:10:13.889 --> 02:10:15.057
today's events.

5865
02:10:15.057 --> 02:10:16.525
Getting incredible footage

5866
02:10:16.525 --> 02:10:22.548
for us all along the way.

5867
02:10:22.614 --> 02:10:23.732
You'll see this team members

5868
02:10:23.732 --> 02:10:24.666
have a bit of a hike

5869
02:10:24.666 --> 02:10:25.918
to carry it to where it is

5870
02:10:25.918 --> 02:10:35.644
safe operationally.

5871
02:10:35.727 --> 02:10:36.962
You can see we have the cargo

5872
02:10:36.962 --> 02:10:41.016
netting already laid out there.

5873
02:10:41.099 --> 02:10:42.117
Our representative

5874
02:10:42.117 --> 02:10:42.634
from Dugway

5875
02:10:42.634 --> 02:10:44.553
and Jasmin Nakayama is prepared

5876
02:10:44.553 --> 02:10:45.571
with that cargo netting.

5877
02:10:45.571 --> 02:10:46.171
She's going to

5878
02:10:46.171 --> 02:10:48.073
help the team here

5879
02:10:48.156 --> 02:10:48.674
get that

5880
02:10:48.674 --> 02:10:49.474
SIRC, that

5881
02:10:49.474 --> 02:10:50.692
has already been successfully

5882
02:10:50.692 --> 02:10:52.628
bagged up with thermal wrapping

5883
02:10:52.628 --> 02:10:54.029
into that cargo netting.

5884
02:10:54.029 --> 02:10:54.513
And you can see

5885
02:10:54.513 --> 02:10:55.797
the helicopter already there

5886
02:10:55.797 --> 02:10:59.685
staged and ready to lift off.

5887
02:10:59.768 --> 02:11:00.602
The helicopter pilot

5888
02:11:00.602 --> 02:11:01.470
has actually removed

5889
02:11:01.470 --> 02:11:02.221
one of the doors

5890
02:11:02.221 --> 02:11:03.005
on that helicopter

5891
02:11:03.005 --> 02:11:04.506
so he can lean out

5892
02:11:04.506 --> 02:11:05.490
and look down

5893
02:11:05.490 --> 02:11:06.758
as he carefully lifts

5894
02:11:06.758 --> 02:11:09.978
the CRC off the terrain.

5895
02:11:10.045 --> 02:11:10.596
We want to make sure

5896
02:11:10.596 --> 02:11:11.997
that this is a careful,

5897
02:11:11.997 --> 02:11:13.966
slow process

5898
02:11:13.966 --> 02:11:15.117
if we safely transport

5899
02:11:15.117 --> 02:11:16.718
this SIRC to the Dugway

5900
02:11:16.718 --> 02:11:18.487
Clean Room,

5901
02:11:18.487 --> 02:11:18.871
you can see

5902
02:11:18.871 --> 02:11:19.855
Jasmine is picking up

5903
02:11:19.855 --> 02:11:21.023
pieces of the cargo netting

5904
02:11:21.023 --> 02:11:23.191
and beginning to wrap

5905
02:11:23.191 --> 02:11:23.992
the SIRC

5906
02:11:23.992 --> 02:11:25.594
that has been placed already

5907
02:11:25.594 --> 02:11:26.678
on the carrying fixture

5908
02:11:26.678 --> 02:11:30.282
with the thermal blanketing

5909
02:11:30.365 --> 02:11:31.884
team members, observing

5910
02:11:31.884 --> 02:11:32.918
their handiwork.

5911
02:11:32.918 --> 02:11:33.335
Getting that

5912
02:11:33.335 --> 02:11:35.187
carefully wrapped up

5913
02:11:35.187 --> 02:11:36.688
will then actually unwrap

5914
02:11:36.688 --> 02:11:37.105
all of that

5915
02:11:37.105 --> 02:11:37.673
thermal blanketing

5916
02:11:37.673 --> 02:11:38.407
once we actually get it

5917
02:11:38.407 --> 02:11:39.207
into the clean room

5918
02:11:39.207 --> 02:11:41.126
here, recovery operations

5919
02:11:41.126 --> 02:11:42.961
as our season approaches on it

5920
02:11:42.961 --> 02:11:43.762
and all the gear

5921
02:11:43.762 --> 02:11:44.763
has been stowed

5922
02:11:44.763 --> 02:11:46.081
in the helicopter.

5923
02:11:46.081 --> 02:11:46.682
Great news.

5924
02:11:46.682 --> 02:11:47.766
Everything sounds

5925
02:11:47.766 --> 02:11:48.867
for helicopter operations.

5926
02:11:48.867 --> 02:11:50.168
And in just a few moments,

5927
02:11:50.168 --> 02:11:51.086
we should have lift

5928
02:11:51.086 --> 02:11:52.621
off of the NSC

5929
02:11:52.621 --> 02:11:53.288
aboard

5930
02:11:53.288 --> 02:11:53.906
the helicopter

5931
02:11:53.906 --> 02:11:56.191
with that long line attached

5932
02:11:56.191 --> 02:11:57.326
team members clearing, the area

5933
02:11:57.326 --> 02:11:58.377
to make sure that we can safely

5934
02:11:58.377 --> 02:12:01.563
take off with our helicopter.

5935
02:12:01.647 --> 02:12:02.614
These helicopter pilots have

5936
02:12:02.614 --> 02:12:03.832
also been training in tandem

5937
02:12:03.832 --> 02:12:04.566
with all the team members

5938
02:12:04.566 --> 02:12:05.317
the past couple of months

5939
02:12:05.317 --> 02:12:07.135
leading up to this key moment.

5940
02:12:07.135 --> 02:12:07.769
We've practiced

5941
02:12:07.769 --> 02:12:08.820
these Long Island operations.

5942
02:12:08.820 --> 02:12:09.755
We practiced the flight

5943
02:12:09.755 --> 02:12:12.240
back to the Dugway Clean Room,

5944
02:12:12.240 --> 02:12:13.358
but obviously nothing

5945
02:12:13.358 --> 02:12:14.676
compares to the real deal.

5946
02:12:14.676 --> 02:12:15.444
I'm sure they are

5947
02:12:15.444 --> 02:12:16.445
feeling the excitement,

5948
02:12:16.445 --> 02:12:17.913
they are feeling the nerves

5949
02:12:17.913 --> 02:12:19.231
as they know

5950
02:12:19.231 --> 02:12:20.582
how precious their cargo is.

5951
02:12:20.582 --> 02:12:21.216
This morning

5952
02:12:21.216 --> 02:12:21.984
that they're transporting

5953
02:12:21.984 --> 02:12:23.819
to the Dugway Clean Room.

5954
02:12:23.819 --> 02:12:24.836
See, Jasmine is

5955
02:12:24.836 --> 02:12:26.104
donning a helmet

5956
02:12:26.104 --> 02:12:27.623
and the rotors are kicking on

5957
02:12:27.623 --> 02:12:29.608
for a helicopter,

5958
02:12:29.608 --> 02:12:30.726
kicking off some dust as.

5959
02:12:30.726 --> 02:12:31.526
They get up to speed.

5960
02:12:31.526 --> 02:12:31.710
There

5961
02:12:31.710 --> 02:12:32.377
it is, a

5962
02:12:32.377 --> 02:12:39.701
dusty morning out on the desert

5963
02:12:39.785 --> 02:12:41.036
and this will be once again

5964
02:12:41.036 --> 02:12:42.337
a very slow,

5965
02:12:42.337 --> 02:12:44.423
deliberate operation.

5966
02:12:44.423 --> 02:12:45.057
We want to make sure

5967
02:12:45.057 --> 02:12:45.774
that sample return

5968
02:12:45.774 --> 02:12:47.759
capsule is safe

5969
02:12:47.759 --> 02:12:50.028
as we are lifting it off.

5970
02:12:50.095 --> 02:12:51.146
The piece that Jasmine is

5971
02:12:51.146 --> 02:12:52.164
holding in her hand right now

5972
02:12:52.164 --> 02:12:53.398
is that gimbal stabilizer

5973
02:12:53.398 --> 02:12:54.933
for the cargo netting

5974
02:12:54.933 --> 02:12:55.467
that will ensure

5975
02:12:55.467 --> 02:12:56.184
that the source

5976
02:12:56.184 --> 02:12:57.336
is not wildly spinning.

5977
02:12:57.336 --> 02:12:58.203
As we get to altitude

5978
02:12:58.203 --> 02:13:00.906
with our helicopter,

5979
02:13:00.906 --> 02:13:01.523
these helicopters

5980
02:13:01.523 --> 02:13:02.341
can get upwards

5981
02:13:02.341 --> 02:13:03.158
of over 100 miles

5982
02:13:03.158 --> 02:13:03.725
an hour speed.

5983
02:13:03.725 --> 02:13:04.626
But we're going to go nowhere

5984
02:13:04.626 --> 02:13:05.494
close to that today.

5985
02:13:05.494 --> 02:13:06.094
We're going to be taking

5986
02:13:06.094 --> 02:13:07.446
this at a slow pace,

5987
02:13:07.446 --> 02:13:08.547
making sure that as fast

5988
02:13:08.547 --> 02:13:09.481
you can get back

5989
02:13:09.481 --> 02:13:10.916
safely and securely

5990
02:13:10.916 --> 02:13:13.418
to our Dugway Clean Room,

5991
02:13:13.418 --> 02:13:14.336
you can see one of our NASA

5992
02:13:14.336 --> 02:13:15.637
photographers, Keagan, Barbara,

5993
02:13:15.637 --> 02:13:16.405
some great pictures.

5994
02:13:16.405 --> 02:13:17.706
I'm sure this will be

5995
02:13:17.706 --> 02:13:18.690
phenomenal views

5996
02:13:18.690 --> 02:13:19.524
of the operations

5997
02:13:19.524 --> 02:13:20.876
that are going on

5998
02:13:20.876 --> 02:13:22.327
just across the way from us

5999
02:13:22.327 --> 02:13:22.978
at the Utah Test

6000
02:13:22.978 --> 02:13:25.497
and Training Range.

6001
02:13:25.497 --> 02:13:26.465
As soon as these rotors

6002
02:13:26.465 --> 02:13:27.099
get up to speed,

6003
02:13:27.099 --> 02:13:28.734
our helicopter will get off

6004
02:13:28.734 --> 02:13:29.184
the ground.

6005
02:13:29.184 --> 02:13:30.268
The terrain is a little bit

6006
02:13:30.268 --> 02:13:31.053
soft today.

6007
02:13:31.053 --> 02:13:31.987
Team members were out here

6008
02:13:31.987 --> 02:13:32.888
yesterday testing out

6009
02:13:32.888 --> 02:13:33.355
the grounds

6010
02:13:33.355 --> 02:13:34.623
and at practice

6011
02:13:34.623 --> 02:13:35.490
actually landing

6012
02:13:35.490 --> 02:13:37.225
with some of the helicopters.

6013
02:13:37.225 --> 02:13:38.543
Those skids on the helicopters

6014
02:13:38.543 --> 02:13:39.745
got about an inch

6015
02:13:39.745 --> 02:13:41.646
into the wet terrain.

6016
02:13:41.646 --> 02:13:42.781
It's presumably dried

6017
02:13:42.781 --> 02:13:43.465
a lot more today.

6018
02:13:43.465 --> 02:13:44.666
It's the sunny,

6019
02:13:44.666 --> 02:13:45.300
clear skies

6020
02:13:45.300 --> 02:13:45.634
have probably

6021
02:13:45.634 --> 02:13:46.268
helped us out a bit.

6022
02:13:46.268 --> 02:13:47.369
So it should be

6023
02:13:47.369 --> 02:13:48.570
an easy lift off for this

6024
02:13:48.570 --> 02:13:50.455
helicopter to get into the air

6025
02:13:50.455 --> 02:13:51.707
and help transport that

6026
02:13:51.707 --> 02:13:56.628
SIRC to the clean room.

6027
02:13:56.695 --> 02:13:58.163
Offscreen team members are

6028
02:13:58.163 --> 02:13:59.815
presumably continuing

6029
02:13:59.815 --> 02:14:01.316
to collect samples

6030
02:14:01.316 --> 02:14:02.217
of the surrounding area,

6031
02:14:02.217 --> 02:14:03.268
both environmental

6032
02:14:03.268 --> 02:14:05.971
soil samples. Samples

6033
02:14:05.971 --> 02:14:07.823
will be continuing

6034
02:14:07.823 --> 02:14:08.790
to do those operations

6035
02:14:08.790 --> 02:14:09.808
even as we bring this

6036
02:14:09.808 --> 02:14:14.713
SIRC to our clean room.

6037
02:14:14.796 --> 02:14:15.897
Just a great view here

6038
02:14:15.897 --> 02:14:19.935
from our NASA helicopter.

6039
02:14:20.018 --> 02:14:20.902
And in just a few moments,

6040
02:14:20.902 --> 02:14:23.371
we should have a stunning view

6041
02:14:23.371 --> 02:14:24.306
of a rescue

6042
02:14:24.306 --> 02:14:26.074
lifting off the ground.

6043
02:14:26.074 --> 02:14:27.159
No part of this SIRC

6044
02:14:27.159 --> 02:14:27.809
comes in contact

6045
02:14:27.809 --> 02:14:28.443
with the helicopter.

6046
02:14:28.443 --> 02:14:29.077
As I said, it's

6047
02:14:29.077 --> 02:14:30.362
been safely stored

6048
02:14:30.362 --> 02:14:31.313
in that thermal blanketing.

6049
02:14:31.313 --> 02:14:31.947
There's multiple

6050
02:14:31.947 --> 02:14:33.548
layers of that, blanketing

6051
02:14:33.548 --> 02:14:34.316
as well as a tarp

6052
02:14:34.316 --> 02:14:36.017
being placed over it.

6053
02:14:36.017 --> 02:14:36.985
Now, it is also

6054
02:14:36.985 --> 02:14:38.887
in that cargo netting. Thanks.

6055
02:14:38.887 --> 02:14:40.288
Our Dugway representative,

6056
02:14:40.288 --> 02:14:42.307
Jazmin Nakayama,

6057
02:14:42.307 --> 02:14:43.592
she's then attached

6058
02:14:43.592 --> 02:14:45.360
this whole contraption

6059
02:14:45.360 --> 02:14:46.778
to a long line

6060
02:14:46.778 --> 02:14:47.429
that will dangle

6061
02:14:47.429 --> 02:14:50.098
about a hundred feet below

6062
02:14:50.098 --> 02:14:55.487
the helicopter.

6063
02:14:55.554 --> 02:14:56.254
And I can see a

6064
02:14:56.254 --> 02:14:57.055
lot of dust kicking up.

6065
02:14:57.055 --> 02:14:58.073
Now, the engine's

6066
02:14:58.073 --> 02:14:59.074
really revving up

6067
02:14:59.074 --> 02:14:59.941
on that helicopter,

6068
02:14:59.941 --> 02:15:01.193
and it is off

6069
02:15:01.193 --> 02:15:04.112
the desert terrain in the air

6070
02:15:04.112 --> 02:15:09.818
with the SIRC in tow

6071
02:15:09.901 --> 02:15:11.436
Recovery operations.

6072
02:15:11.436 --> 02:15:12.204
Helicopter one

6073
02:15:12.204 --> 02:15:13.438
is currently the part,

6074
02:15:13.438 --> 02:15:14.422
the recovery site

6075
02:15:14.422 --> 02:15:15.574
with the surgery

6076
02:15:15.574 --> 02:15:16.291
and we have clearance

6077
02:15:16.291 --> 02:15:17.609
to depart the recovery.

6078
02:15:17.609 --> 02:15:18.960
This is a key moment

6079
02:15:18.960 --> 02:15:20.195
of those recovery operations.

6080
02:15:20.195 --> 02:15:21.663
We're already getting that SIRC

6081
02:15:21.663 --> 02:15:22.831
out of the landing zone

6082
02:15:22.831 --> 02:15:23.732
and on its way

6083
02:15:23.732 --> 02:15:27.903
to the Dugway Clean Room

6084
02:15:27.986 --> 02:15:28.887
in just a few moments

6085
02:15:28.887 --> 02:15:30.755
that SIRC,

6086
02:15:30.755 --> 02:15:31.706
with the long line

6087
02:15:31.706 --> 02:15:32.407
attached, will be

6088
02:15:32.407 --> 02:15:36.528
lifting off its landing zone.

6089
02:15:36.595 --> 02:15:37.529
Jasmine assisting

6090
02:15:37.529 --> 02:15:37.796
with that

6091
02:15:37.796 --> 02:15:39.114
final part of the lift

6092
02:15:39.114 --> 02:15:42.117
and it is now airborne,

6093
02:15:42.367 --> 02:15:44.452
as I mentioned, a much more

6094
02:15:44.452 --> 02:15:46.354
relaxing flight for SLC on

6095
02:15:46.354 --> 02:15:50.108
its last leg of its journey.

6096
02:15:50.192 --> 02:15:50.842
We are officially

6097
02:15:50.842 --> 02:15:54.062
departing that landing zone.

6098
02:15:54.146 --> 02:15:55.113
Recovery operations

6099
02:15:55.113 --> 02:15:56.548
will continue out

6100
02:15:56.548 --> 02:15:57.666
at the Dugway Cleanroom.

6101
02:15:57.666 --> 02:15:58.416
I see team members

6102
02:15:58.416 --> 02:16:08.326
waving goodbye

6103
02:16:08.393 --> 02:16:09.878
and look at that view.

6104
02:16:09.878 --> 02:16:11.012
This is a stunning view

6105
02:16:11.012 --> 02:16:12.480
of our helicopter.

6106
02:16:12.480 --> 02:16:13.982
This is a long journey ahead.

6107
02:16:13.982 --> 02:16:14.766
As I mentioned, probably

6108
02:16:14.766 --> 02:16:15.817
about 20 minutes

6109
02:16:15.817 --> 02:16:16.651
of total flight.

6110
02:16:16.651 --> 02:16:18.186
We may lose signal

6111
02:16:18.186 --> 02:16:19.204
as we head out there a bit,

6112
02:16:19.204 --> 02:16:20.105
but for now,

6113
02:16:20.105 --> 02:16:21.423
we have a stunning view

6114
02:16:21.423 --> 02:16:22.858
of our helicopter

6115
02:16:22.858 --> 02:16:24.476
carrying the see below.

6116
02:16:24.476 --> 02:16:25.110
And you can see that

6117
02:16:25.110 --> 02:16:26.278
stabilizer is helping

6118
02:16:26.278 --> 02:16:27.212
to keep the necessary

6119
02:16:27.212 --> 02:16:28.864
nice and stable below.

6120
02:16:28.864 --> 02:16:29.281
We'll continue

6121
02:16:29.281 --> 02:16:30.482
to track this transport

6122
02:16:30.482 --> 02:16:31.116
to the clean room.

6123
02:16:31.116 --> 02:16:32.033
But for now, back to you,

6124
02:16:32.033 --> 02:16:34.586
Larne and Jim.

6125
02:16:34.586 --> 02:16:35.103
Wow.

6126
02:16:35.103 --> 02:16:38.323
Check out that epic shot.

6127
02:16:38.406 --> 02:16:39.758
What a ride. Wow.

6128
02:16:39.758 --> 02:16:41.193
All right. Thanks, James.

6129
02:16:41.193 --> 02:16:42.210
The science community

6130
02:16:42.210 --> 02:16:43.528
has serious questions

6131
02:16:43.528 --> 02:16:44.663
about asteroids like Bennu.

6132
02:16:44.663 --> 02:16:46.147
For a long time.

6133
02:16:46.147 --> 02:16:47.098
What are they made of?

6134
02:16:47.098 --> 02:16:48.183
Do they hold any clues

6135
02:16:48.183 --> 02:16:49.267
about the origins of life

6136
02:16:49.267 --> 02:16:51.052
on Earth or elsewhere?

6137
02:16:51.052 --> 02:16:51.903
And what can

6138
02:16:51.903 --> 02:16:53.521
they tell us about our past

6139
02:16:53.521 --> 02:16:55.707
and potentially our future?

6140
02:16:55.707 --> 02:16:56.708
It's all about

6141
02:16:56.708 --> 02:16:57.609
chemistry, Lauren.

6142
02:16:57.609 --> 02:16:58.944
It absolutely is.

6143
02:16:58.944 --> 02:16:59.678
Well, fortunately,

6144
02:16:59.678 --> 02:17:00.445
Jim, we are joined

6145
02:17:00.445 --> 02:17:02.280
by somebody who specializes

6146
02:17:02.280 --> 02:17:03.114
in the kind of

6147
02:17:03.114 --> 02:17:04.432
chemistry that you'd be hard

6148
02:17:04.432 --> 02:17:05.784
pressed to find outside

6149
02:17:05.784 --> 02:17:06.785
of NASA.

6150
02:17:06.785 --> 02:17:07.535
Jason Dworkin

6151
02:17:07.535 --> 02:17:09.087
is the Osiris-rex

6152
02:17:09.087 --> 02:17:10.655
project scientist.

6153
02:17:10.655 --> 02:17:12.240
Welcome. Welcome, Jason.

6154
02:17:12.240 --> 02:17:14.276
Thanks, and congratulations.

6155
02:17:14.276 --> 02:17:15.243
What a historic day.

6156
02:17:15.243 --> 02:17:17.429
Oh, so really has to be.

6157
02:17:17.429 --> 02:17:19.147
Yes, relieved,

6158
02:17:19.147 --> 02:17:21.549
invigorated, excited

6159
02:17:21.633 --> 02:17:22.434
as so much

6160
02:17:22.434 --> 02:17:23.485
work ahead of us, right?

6161
02:17:23.485 --> 02:17:26.004
Indeed. Fun work. Oh, no.

6162
02:17:26.004 --> 02:17:28.323
Epic work. Epic work.

6163
02:17:28.323 --> 02:17:29.524
You must be so excited to dig

6164
02:17:29.524 --> 02:17:31.259
into the sample yourself.

6165
02:17:31.259 --> 02:17:33.211
But what makes this the sample?

6166
02:17:33.211 --> 02:17:34.312
You know, we've.

6167
02:17:34.312 --> 02:17:35.580
We've to say

6168
02:17:35.580 --> 02:17:36.398
this is such an

6169
02:17:36.398 --> 02:17:37.732
important sample

6170
02:17:37.732 --> 02:17:38.583
from an asteroid.

6171
02:17:38.583 --> 02:17:39.384
Why is it

6172
02:17:39.384 --> 02:17:41.436
scientifically significant?

6173
02:17:41.436 --> 02:17:44.005
So Bennu is an ancient piece

6174
02:17:44.005 --> 02:17:44.422
of the

6175
02:17:44.422 --> 02:17:45.657
of the early solar system,

6176
02:17:45.657 --> 02:17:47.842
a leftover component.

6177
02:17:47.842 --> 02:17:49.928
It's a fragment of what happens

6178
02:17:49.928 --> 02:17:51.596
when you when you make planets.

6179
02:17:51.596 --> 02:17:52.497
And this

6180
02:17:52.497 --> 02:17:57.269
this fragment of rock is

6181
02:17:57.352 --> 02:17:58.653
it contains

6182
02:17:58.653 --> 02:17:59.371
that the ingredients

6183
02:17:59.371 --> 02:18:00.121
that that happen

6184
02:18:00.121 --> 02:18:01.139
when you make planets,

6185
02:18:01.139 --> 02:18:01.673
that happens

6186
02:18:01.673 --> 02:18:04.025
when you make life.

6187
02:18:04.025 --> 02:18:07.028
So by studying a sample from

6188
02:18:07.028 --> 02:18:08.546
the leftovers of space,

6189
02:18:08.546 --> 02:18:09.781
we can study a sample

6190
02:18:09.781 --> 02:18:11.066
from the leftovers

6191
02:18:11.066 --> 02:18:13.735
of the formation of the

6192
02:18:13.735 --> 02:18:15.337
of the Earth.

6193
02:18:15.420 --> 02:18:15.754
Look at

6194
02:18:15.754 --> 02:18:16.955
the chemistry in detail

6195
02:18:16.955 --> 02:18:18.123
as you can only do

6196
02:18:18.123 --> 02:18:19.557
on the ground using instruments

6197
02:18:19.557 --> 02:18:21.126
that are sometimes

6198
02:18:21.126 --> 02:18:22.227
bigger than the launch pad,

6199
02:18:22.227 --> 02:18:23.578
let alone the space level

6200
02:18:23.578 --> 02:18:25.530
on the rock in the spacecraft.

6201
02:18:25.530 --> 02:18:27.866
Some interrogate

6202
02:18:27.866 --> 02:18:30.468
the compounds, the the

6203
02:18:30.468 --> 02:18:32.821
the minerals in fine detail

6204
02:18:32.821 --> 02:18:33.488
to, understand

6205
02:18:33.488 --> 02:18:34.022
how they interact

6206
02:18:34.022 --> 02:18:34.806
with each other,

6207
02:18:34.806 --> 02:18:35.707
and how they could have led

6208
02:18:35.707 --> 02:18:36.758
to the history

6209
02:18:36.758 --> 02:18:37.742
of the solar system.

6210
02:18:37.742 --> 02:18:38.843
And that's forensic science

6211
02:18:38.843 --> 02:18:39.928
that is at its best.

6212
02:18:39.928 --> 02:18:41.396
But I have a question, Jason,

6213
02:18:41.396 --> 02:18:41.880
because you're an

6214
02:18:41.880 --> 02:18:43.114
expert in this so.

6215
02:18:43.114 --> 02:18:43.982
We're going to save

6216
02:18:43.982 --> 02:18:44.883
some of the sample

6217
02:18:44.883 --> 02:18:46.318
so that future generations,

6218
02:18:46.318 --> 02:18:47.786
future techniques,

6219
02:18:47.786 --> 02:18:48.787
future people

6220
02:18:48.787 --> 02:18:49.621
not even born,

6221
02:18:49.621 --> 02:18:51.089
can can learn from it

6222
02:18:51.089 --> 02:18:51.656
in the future

6223
02:18:51.656 --> 02:18:52.524
as we try to look

6224
02:18:52.524 --> 02:18:53.675
at our place in space.

6225
02:18:53.675 --> 02:18:54.159
Absolutely.

6226
02:18:54.159 --> 02:18:55.143
That's one of the parts

6227
02:18:55.143 --> 02:18:56.945
I find the most exciting.

6228
02:18:56.945 --> 02:18:57.562
Gratifying

6229
02:18:57.562 --> 02:18:59.914
is that the work we do here

6230
02:18:59.914 --> 02:19:01.266
will be available

6231
02:19:01.266 --> 02:19:03.268
for scientists

6232
02:19:03.268 --> 02:19:05.904
perhaps watching now, perhaps

6233
02:19:05.904 --> 02:19:07.288
not yet born.

6234
02:19:07.288 --> 02:19:08.406
They can make choices

6235
02:19:08.406 --> 02:19:09.841
and come up with their own

6236
02:19:09.841 --> 02:19:11.126
hypotheses, their own ideas

6237
02:19:11.126 --> 02:19:12.994
around new techniques

6238
02:19:12.994 --> 02:19:13.495
to look at,

6239
02:19:13.495 --> 02:19:14.763
look at the sample in new

6240
02:19:14.763 --> 02:19:15.864
and exciting ways.

6241
02:19:15.864 --> 02:19:16.614
Just as we have for

6242
02:19:16.614 --> 02:19:18.783
the Apollo samples.

6243
02:19:18.867 --> 02:19:20.101
One of my laboratory,

6244
02:19:20.101 --> 02:19:23.688
I studied Apollo 1617 samples

6245
02:19:23.755 --> 02:19:24.422
that were collected

6246
02:19:24.422 --> 02:19:25.857
before she was born

6247
02:19:25.857 --> 02:19:26.641
using techniques

6248
02:19:26.641 --> 02:19:27.459
that were not invented

6249
02:19:27.459 --> 02:19:28.743
in the 1970s

6250
02:19:28.743 --> 02:19:29.844
to then answer questions

6251
02:19:29.844 --> 02:19:30.578
that were thought of

6252
02:19:30.578 --> 02:19:31.262
but couldn't be,

6253
02:19:31.262 --> 02:19:32.497
couldn't be answered.

6254
02:19:32.497 --> 02:19:33.365
And so since you

6255
02:19:33.365 --> 02:19:34.733
mentioned forensics,

6256
02:19:34.733 --> 02:19:35.884
we also have equipped

6257
02:19:35.884 --> 02:19:37.836
future generations with

6258
02:19:37.836 --> 02:19:38.586
the information

6259
02:19:38.586 --> 02:19:40.105
to follow the chain of evidence

6260
02:19:40.105 --> 02:19:41.740
from these construction

6261
02:19:41.740 --> 02:19:42.607
spacecraft,

6262
02:19:42.607 --> 02:19:44.075
all of which the collection now

6263
02:19:44.075 --> 02:19:45.443
and then the distribution.

6264
02:19:45.443 --> 02:19:47.395
Awesome. Wow. That is so cool.

6265
02:19:47.395 --> 02:19:47.912
Thank you.

6266
02:19:47.912 --> 02:19:48.780
Thank you so much

6267
02:19:48.780 --> 02:19:50.281
for joining us. Pleasure.

6268
02:19:50.281 --> 02:19:51.299
Thank you. Thanks, Jason.

6269
02:19:51.299 --> 02:19:53.017
Good luck.

6270
02:19:53.017 --> 02:19:54.185
Careful handling of this

6271
02:19:54.185 --> 02:19:55.537
asteroid sample is all about

6272
02:19:55.537 --> 02:19:56.337
getting the most out

6273
02:19:56.337 --> 02:19:57.355
of the huge effort

6274
02:19:57.355 --> 02:19:58.206
to visit visit

6275
02:19:58.206 --> 02:19:59.858
the object in the first place.

6276
02:19:59.858 --> 02:20:00.508
Mission planners

6277
02:20:00.508 --> 02:20:02.043
considered many destinations

6278
02:20:02.043 --> 02:20:03.695
but settled on bennu.

6279
02:20:03.695 --> 02:20:08.533
Let's learn more about why

6280
02:20:08.616 --> 02:20:10.268
Osiris-rex was designed

6281
02:20:10.268 --> 02:20:10.835
to retrieve

6282
02:20:10.835 --> 02:20:12.087
a sample from asteroid

6283
02:20:12.087 --> 02:20:14.105
Bennu and return it to Earth.

6284
02:20:14.105 --> 02:20:16.057
So of the more than 1 million

6285
02:20:16.057 --> 02:20:16.858
known asteroids

6286
02:20:16.858 --> 02:20:20.478
in our solar system, why Bennu?

6287
02:20:20.545 --> 02:20:21.996
First, as a near-Earth

6288
02:20:21.996 --> 02:20:23.064
asteroid, Bennu

6289
02:20:23.064 --> 02:20:24.716
is easy to reach.

6290
02:20:24.716 --> 02:20:26.184
It takes about 14 months

6291
02:20:26.184 --> 02:20:26.551
to orbit

6292
02:20:26.551 --> 02:20:28.353
the and comes close to earth

6293
02:20:28.353 --> 02:20:30.422
once every six years

6294
02:20:30.422 --> 02:20:31.172
to get there.

6295
02:20:31.172 --> 02:20:32.607
Osiris-rex was launched

6296
02:20:32.607 --> 02:20:34.409
in 2016 on an Atlas

6297
02:20:34.409 --> 02:20:35.093
five rocket

6298
02:20:35.093 --> 02:20:36.177
with a single booster

6299
02:20:36.177 --> 02:20:38.279
and, a center upper stage.

6300
02:20:38.279 --> 02:20:39.781
It also got a big assist

6301
02:20:39.781 --> 02:20:40.231
from Earth's

6302
02:20:40.231 --> 02:20:42.033
gravity in 2017,

6303
02:20:42.033 --> 02:20:43.351
allowing it to match Bennu's

6304
02:20:43.351 --> 02:20:44.786
orbital tilt.

6305
02:20:44.786 --> 02:20:45.603
The second reason

6306
02:20:45.603 --> 02:20:46.771
that Bennu was chosen

6307
02:20:46.771 --> 02:20:48.873
its size and spin rate.

6308
02:20:48.873 --> 02:20:49.674
Bennu measures

6309
02:20:49.674 --> 02:20:50.758
about half a kilometer

6310
02:20:50.758 --> 02:20:51.426
in diameter

6311
02:20:51.426 --> 02:20:52.944
and rotates on its axis

6312
02:20:52.944 --> 02:20:55.230
once every 4.3 hours,

6313
02:20:55.230 --> 02:20:57.098
which is actually slow

6314
02:20:57.098 --> 02:20:58.349
compared to many smaller

6315
02:20:58.349 --> 02:20:59.317
asteroids.

6316
02:20:59.317 --> 02:21:01.102
This allowed osiris-rex to map

6317
02:21:01.102 --> 02:21:02.887
bennu surface up close

6318
02:21:02.887 --> 02:21:04.556
and to match its velocity.

6319
02:21:04.556 --> 02:21:05.857
Briefly touched down

6320
02:21:05.857 --> 02:21:07.775
and collect a sample

6321
02:21:07.775 --> 02:21:09.727
before Osiris-rex arrived.

6322
02:21:09.727 --> 02:21:10.979
Scientists thought that Bennu's

6323
02:21:10.979 --> 02:21:11.963
slow rotation

6324
02:21:11.963 --> 02:21:12.714
meant a low

6325
02:21:12.714 --> 02:21:13.832
risk of flinging away

6326
02:21:13.832 --> 02:21:15.900
most of its sample material.

6327
02:21:15.900 --> 02:21:17.552
But shortly after arrival,

6328
02:21:17.552 --> 02:21:18.503
Bennu was caught on

6329
02:21:18.503 --> 02:21:19.404
camera, ejecting

6330
02:21:19.404 --> 02:21:21.539
hundreds of pebbles.

6331
02:21:21.539 --> 02:21:22.824
It turns out that Bennu

6332
02:21:22.824 --> 02:21:23.975
regularly shreds

6333
02:21:23.975 --> 02:21:25.743
small particles,

6334
02:21:25.743 --> 02:21:26.761
but it still had

6335
02:21:26.761 --> 02:21:27.445
plenty of loose

6336
02:21:27.445 --> 02:21:28.863
material left on its surface

6337
02:21:28.863 --> 02:21:30.598
for sample collection.

6338
02:21:30.598 --> 02:21:32.016
The third reason for choosing

6339
02:21:32.016 --> 02:21:34.652
Bennu was its composition.

6340
02:21:34.652 --> 02:21:35.436
We don't know

6341
02:21:35.436 --> 02:21:36.721
what ingredients were present

6342
02:21:36.721 --> 02:21:37.539
during the formation

6343
02:21:37.539 --> 02:21:38.857
of life on Earth,

6344
02:21:38.857 --> 02:21:40.074
but primitive asteroids

6345
02:21:40.074 --> 02:21:40.675
like Bennu

6346
02:21:40.675 --> 02:21:42.393
serve as time capsules,

6347
02:21:42.393 --> 02:21:43.678
preserving material from the

6348
02:21:43.678 --> 02:21:46.064
dawn of the solar system.

6349
02:21:46.147 --> 02:21:47.999
Spectrometers on Osiris-rex

6350
02:21:47.999 --> 02:21:49.567
confirmed that Bennu is rich

6351
02:21:49.567 --> 02:21:51.786
in carbon based molecules,

6352
02:21:51.786 --> 02:21:52.954
including organics

6353
02:21:52.954 --> 02:21:55.507
that are the stuff of life.

6354
02:21:55.507 --> 02:21:56.124
When the Bennu

6355
02:21:56.124 --> 02:21:57.509
sample is analyzed,

6356
02:21:57.509 --> 02:21:58.409
it will help scientists

6357
02:21:58.409 --> 02:21:59.244
to better understand

6358
02:21:59.244 --> 02:21:59.994
the formation

6359
02:21:59.994 --> 02:22:01.496
of the solar system

6360
02:22:01.496 --> 02:22:03.848
and our own origins.

6361
02:22:03.848 --> 02:22:06.150
So why particular asteroid

6362
02:22:06.150 --> 02:22:07.769
proximity to earth?

6363
02:22:07.769 --> 02:22:09.537
The right size and spin

6364
02:22:09.537 --> 02:22:12.273
and a carbon rich composition?

6365
02:22:12.273 --> 02:22:21.482
That is why we chose Bennu.

6366
02:22:21.566 --> 02:22:22.383
As you can see

6367
02:22:22.383 --> 02:22:23.585
in the bottom of your screen

6368
02:22:23.585 --> 02:22:25.436
that SIRC is continuing

6369
02:22:25.436 --> 02:22:26.688
its transit to the clean room.

6370
02:22:26.688 --> 02:22:28.256
Awesome.

6371
02:22:28.256 --> 02:22:28.473
All right.

6372
02:22:28.473 --> 02:22:29.490
So turning our attention

6373
02:22:29.490 --> 02:22:31.409
back to the rocks in the back,

6374
02:22:31.409 --> 02:22:32.610
I have to ask him,

6375
02:22:32.610 --> 02:22:33.895
how did they get

6376
02:22:33.895 --> 02:22:34.946
how did they get it in here?

6377
02:22:34.946 --> 02:22:35.813
What is this?

6378
02:22:35.813 --> 02:22:37.498
So this is the Tagsam

6379
02:22:37.498 --> 02:22:38.550
sampler head.

6380
02:22:38.550 --> 02:22:39.367
It's about a foot long.

6381
02:22:39.367 --> 02:22:40.134
It looks like an old

6382
02:22:40.134 --> 02:22:41.369
Chevy carburetor,

6383
02:22:41.369 --> 02:22:41.936
but inside

6384
02:22:41.936 --> 02:22:42.570
is something much

6385
02:22:42.570 --> 02:22:43.621
more precious.

6386
02:22:43.621 --> 02:22:44.455
Inside,

6387
02:22:44.455 --> 02:22:46.708
maybe 250 or more grams

6388
02:22:46.708 --> 02:22:47.709
of that primitive material

6389
02:22:47.709 --> 02:22:48.276
from the asteroid.

6390
02:22:48.276 --> 02:22:50.378
And it has all the gear on it,

6391
02:22:50.378 --> 02:22:51.212
including samples

6392
02:22:51.212 --> 02:22:52.313
on the bottom, little pads

6393
02:22:52.313 --> 02:22:53.281
to grab sample,

6394
02:22:53.281 --> 02:22:54.832
as well as the stuff inside

6395
02:22:54.832 --> 02:22:55.383
that contains

6396
02:22:55.383 --> 02:22:56.134
the bigger pebbles

6397
02:22:56.134 --> 02:22:57.001
and all the dust.

6398
02:22:57.001 --> 02:22:58.253
It even has witnessed plates.

6399
02:22:58.253 --> 02:22:59.370
So we used to do that,

6400
02:22:59.370 --> 02:23:00.538
that contamination control

6401
02:23:00.538 --> 02:23:01.773
that Jason was talking about.

6402
02:23:01.773 --> 02:23:04.142
This is the box.

6403
02:23:04.142 --> 02:23:04.776
This is the

6404
02:23:04.776 --> 02:23:05.877
this is the big deal

6405
02:23:05.877 --> 02:23:06.811
right here.

6406
02:23:06.811 --> 02:23:08.146
And, you know, the

6407
02:23:08.146 --> 02:23:09.931
the material went into

6408
02:23:09.931 --> 02:23:10.415
this box.

6409
02:23:10.415 --> 02:23:11.816
We've actually got some of

6410
02:23:11.816 --> 02:23:13.718
what's called simulant here.

6411
02:23:13.718 --> 02:23:14.636
And this is obviously

6412
02:23:14.636 --> 02:23:15.720
not the actual sample

6413
02:23:15.720 --> 02:23:16.254
from Bennu,

6414
02:23:16.254 --> 02:23:18.389
but it is a good approximation.

6415
02:23:18.389 --> 02:23:18.923
Is that right, Jim?

6416
02:23:18.923 --> 02:23:19.474
That's right.

6417
02:23:19.474 --> 02:23:20.708
And so what we discovered

6418
02:23:20.708 --> 02:23:22.076
on this amazing mission

6419
02:23:22.076 --> 02:23:23.394
was the material properties

6420
02:23:23.394 --> 02:23:24.662
in the microgravity

6421
02:23:24.662 --> 02:23:26.397
of asteroid Bennu

6422
02:23:26.397 --> 02:23:27.332
didn't behave like

6423
02:23:27.332 --> 02:23:28.566
we totally expected.

6424
02:23:28.566 --> 02:23:29.767
They behaved like

6425
02:23:29.767 --> 02:23:31.402
almost cohesion with fluid.

6426
02:23:31.402 --> 02:23:32.670
And so while I pour this here

6427
02:23:32.670 --> 02:23:34.255
and they fall pretty naturally

6428
02:23:34.255 --> 02:23:34.922
and this is about

6429
02:23:34.922 --> 02:23:35.790
the amount of stuff

6430
02:23:35.790 --> 02:23:37.108
we expect to find inside

6431
02:23:37.108 --> 02:23:38.393
this sampler had

6432
02:23:38.393 --> 02:23:39.444
they flowed

6433
02:23:39.444 --> 02:23:40.945
more like water on Earth

6434
02:23:40.945 --> 02:23:41.813
than we expected

6435
02:23:41.813 --> 02:23:42.697
there on the asteroid.

6436
02:23:42.697 --> 02:23:43.615
This is new physics.

6437
02:23:43.615 --> 02:23:44.165
We didn't know

6438
02:23:44.165 --> 02:23:45.233
that was going to happen.

6439
02:23:45.233 --> 02:23:46.267
And these rubble pile

6440
02:23:46.267 --> 02:23:47.435
asteroids are teaching

6441
02:23:47.435 --> 02:23:47.852
us something

6442
02:23:47.852 --> 02:23:49.087
at every step in fact,

6443
02:23:49.087 --> 02:23:49.954
some of these bits

6444
02:23:49.954 --> 02:23:51.205
which are simulants here

6445
02:23:51.205 --> 02:23:51.923
maybe have more

6446
02:23:51.923 --> 02:23:53.875
like little balls of Styrofoam

6447
02:23:53.875 --> 02:23:55.143
than the kind of rocks

6448
02:23:55.143 --> 02:23:55.560
we have here.

6449
02:23:55.560 --> 02:23:55.827
So we're

6450
02:23:55.827 --> 02:23:56.844
going to learn new stuff

6451
02:23:56.844 --> 02:23:57.729
by just doing

6452
02:23:57.729 --> 02:23:59.364
basic characterization

6453
02:23:59.364 --> 02:24:00.031
of the goodies

6454
02:24:00.031 --> 02:24:01.733
inside this sampler head.

6455
02:24:01.733 --> 02:24:02.183
And one thing

6456
02:24:02.183 --> 02:24:03.067
I think is so cool

6457
02:24:03.067 --> 02:24:03.968
is that, you know, on earth

6458
02:24:03.968 --> 02:24:05.336
we've poured directly

6459
02:24:05.336 --> 02:24:06.571
into these other beakers here.

6460
02:24:06.571 --> 02:24:07.555
But as you said,

6461
02:24:07.555 --> 02:24:08.856
it acted almost more

6462
02:24:08.856 --> 02:24:10.708
like fluid. Exactly.

6463
02:24:10.708 --> 02:24:12.026
We actually when we

6464
02:24:12.026 --> 02:24:12.510
when we took

6465
02:24:12.510 --> 02:24:12.994
the sample

6466
02:24:12.994 --> 02:24:14.345
had on the tagsam,

6467
02:24:14.345 --> 02:24:15.630
we pushed it into the asteroid,

6468
02:24:15.630 --> 02:24:16.764
gave it a poke,

6469
02:24:16.764 --> 02:24:18.032
let loose the gas and,

6470
02:24:18.032 --> 02:24:18.599
let the stuff

6471
02:24:18.599 --> 02:24:19.801
like we actually penetrate

6472
02:24:19.801 --> 02:24:21.185
50 centimeters.

6473
02:24:21.185 --> 02:24:22.053
That's more than

6474
02:24:22.053 --> 02:24:23.071
almost two feet.

6475
02:24:23.071 --> 02:24:24.038
So we went deep

6476
02:24:24.038 --> 02:24:24.756
into the asteroid,

6477
02:24:24.756 --> 02:24:26.007
fired our thrusters

6478
02:24:26.007 --> 02:24:26.858
and backed away

6479
02:24:26.858 --> 02:24:27.892
with the sample intact

6480
02:24:27.892 --> 02:24:29.193
in this sampler head.

6481
02:24:29.193 --> 02:24:29.694
That was cool.

6482
02:24:29.694 --> 02:24:30.745
We didn't expect that.

6483
02:24:30.745 --> 02:24:31.412
We expected

6484
02:24:31.412 --> 02:24:32.947
contact 5 seconds later,

6485
02:24:32.947 --> 02:24:33.998
grab the good stuff

6486
02:24:33.998 --> 02:24:34.999
and come home.

6487
02:24:34.999 --> 02:24:36.567
So dynamic interactions,

6488
02:24:36.567 --> 02:24:37.318
learning about how

6489
02:24:37.318 --> 02:24:38.336
these objects work.

6490
02:24:38.336 --> 02:24:39.337
As you heard from Lori Glaze,

6491
02:24:39.337 --> 02:24:39.837
this is how we

6492
02:24:39.837 --> 02:24:40.922
get to understand

6493
02:24:40.922 --> 02:24:41.939
the worlds that we need

6494
02:24:41.939 --> 02:24:43.141
for planetary security.

6495
02:24:43.141 --> 02:24:44.225
And I've even even heard

6496
02:24:44.225 --> 02:24:45.293
this described

6497
02:24:45.293 --> 02:24:46.794
as a ball pit that that's

6498
02:24:46.794 --> 02:24:47.679
how loose

6499
02:24:47.679 --> 02:24:48.846
the material was

6500
02:24:48.846 --> 02:24:50.314
when they approached. Exactly.

6501
02:24:50.314 --> 02:24:51.716
If we had kept going,

6502
02:24:51.716 --> 02:24:52.433
we didn't have that

6503
02:24:52.433 --> 02:24:53.368
smart spacecraft,

6504
02:24:53.368 --> 02:24:54.419
all that great engineering.

6505
02:24:54.419 --> 02:24:56.037
We could have engulfed ourself

6506
02:24:56.037 --> 02:24:57.221
in this rubble.

6507
02:24:57.221 --> 02:24:59.407
That's not good.

6508
02:24:59.407 --> 02:25:00.391
But no crap happened.

6509
02:25:00.391 --> 02:25:01.476
And we're on the way home

6510
02:25:01.476 --> 02:25:02.377
and we have a sample

6511
02:25:02.377 --> 02:25:03.094
that's coming here

6512
02:25:03.094 --> 02:25:04.028
to the clean room

6513
02:25:04.028 --> 02:25:05.997
right here a mile away.

6514
02:25:05.997 --> 02:25:07.348
All right. Fantastic.

6515
02:25:07.348 --> 02:25:08.216
Well,

6516
02:25:08.216 --> 02:25:09.067
now that the team

6517
02:25:09.067 --> 02:25:10.351
is bringing the sexy back

6518
02:25:10.351 --> 02:25:12.937
to the clean room here in Utah,

6519
02:25:12.937 --> 02:25:14.722
what do we what can we expect?

6520
02:25:14.722 --> 02:25:15.757
So the next step is really

6521
02:25:15.757 --> 02:25:16.924
clean, is really important.

6522
02:25:16.924 --> 02:25:17.642
What will that

6523
02:25:17.642 --> 02:25:18.726
special apparatus

6524
02:25:18.726 --> 02:25:19.527
that's carrying

6525
02:25:19.527 --> 02:25:20.645
sample return canister

6526
02:25:20.645 --> 02:25:22.296
with this thing inside it,

6527
02:25:22.296 --> 02:25:23.197
right to the clean room,

6528
02:25:23.197 --> 02:25:23.798
bring it in.

6529
02:25:23.798 --> 02:25:24.465
Take off

6530
02:25:24.465 --> 02:25:26.167
the elements of the aeroshell.

6531
02:25:26.167 --> 02:25:27.752
That's the thermal protection

6532
02:25:27.752 --> 02:25:28.419
system in the back

6533
02:25:28.419 --> 02:25:29.704
here will take those off

6534
02:25:29.704 --> 02:25:30.655
and set up the plumbing

6535
02:25:30.655 --> 02:25:32.190
to get the nitrogen purge

6536
02:25:32.190 --> 02:25:34.358
on on this particular

6537
02:25:34.358 --> 02:25:35.576
sample ahead. That's critical.

6538
02:25:35.576 --> 02:25:36.778
All right. That's next.

6539
02:25:36.778 --> 02:25:36.928
Right.

6540
02:25:36.928 --> 02:25:37.795
Let's get an update

6541
02:25:37.795 --> 02:25:39.213
from our gal in the field.

6542
02:25:39.213 --> 02:25:43.301
Take it away, Sophia.

6543
02:25:43.384 --> 02:25:44.786
Let's put these puppies down.

6544
02:25:44.786 --> 02:25:45.453
Things

6545
02:25:45.453 --> 02:25:47.255
are this much quieter

6546
02:25:47.255 --> 02:25:48.156
over here now.

6547
02:25:48.156 --> 02:25:49.173
But for those of you

6548
02:25:49.173 --> 02:25:51.125
who are just tuning in,

6549
02:25:51.125 --> 02:25:51.926
this is where

6550
02:25:51.926 --> 02:25:53.694
the helicopters departed

6551
02:25:53.694 --> 02:25:54.579
that were carrying

6552
02:25:54.579 --> 02:25:56.063
our teams of experts

6553
02:25:56.063 --> 02:25:58.266
that are now having

6554
02:25:58.266 --> 02:25:58.983
been through

6555
02:25:58.983 --> 02:25:59.884
a large part

6556
02:25:59.884 --> 02:26:02.136
of the recovery process today.

6557
02:26:02.136 --> 02:26:03.838
But really, that's all I have

6558
02:26:03.838 --> 02:26:04.705
for your updates

6559
02:26:04.705 --> 02:26:05.940
here from Wigg Mountain

6560
02:26:05.940 --> 02:26:08.092
overlooking that vast

6561
02:26:08.092 --> 02:26:09.894
landing zone.

6562
02:26:09.894 --> 02:26:11.846
But if you do see,

6563
02:26:11.846 --> 02:26:15.116
we are miles away from the live

6564
02:26:15.116 --> 02:26:16.434
broadcast hangar

6565
02:26:16.434 --> 02:26:17.769
and it took me

6566
02:26:17.769 --> 02:26:18.503
30 minutes

6567
02:26:18.503 --> 02:26:19.320
to get that 12

6568
02:26:19.320 --> 02:26:19.987
and a half miles.

6569
02:26:19.987 --> 02:26:20.822
And that gives you an idea

6570
02:26:20.822 --> 02:26:21.956
of how long it takes

6571
02:26:21.956 --> 02:26:24.892
to traverse this tough terrain,

6572
02:26:24.892 --> 02:26:26.227
which is also why

6573
02:26:26.227 --> 02:26:27.595
the recovery teams

6574
02:26:27.595 --> 02:26:29.197
chose to use helicopters

6575
02:26:29.197 --> 02:26:30.264
to get that capsule

6576
02:26:30.264 --> 02:26:32.316
safely to the clean.

6577
02:26:32.316 --> 02:26:33.835
I luckily had a chance

6578
02:26:33.835 --> 02:26:34.919
to talk to the pilots

6579
02:26:34.919 --> 02:26:36.204
of those helicopters

6580
02:26:36.204 --> 02:26:37.472
just the other day.

6581
02:26:37.472 --> 02:26:40.424
So let's take a look

6582
02:26:40.508 --> 02:26:42.126
at the Osiris-rex

6583
02:26:42.126 --> 02:26:43.594
sample return capsule

6584
02:26:43.594 --> 02:26:44.462
just endured

6585
02:26:44.462 --> 02:26:45.663
a lengthy

6586
02:26:45.663 --> 02:26:48.216
3.8 billion mile journey.

6587
02:26:48.216 --> 02:26:49.834
But the adventure doesn't end

6588
02:26:49.834 --> 02:26:51.803
once touches down,

6589
02:26:51.803 --> 02:26:52.687
the landing zone

6590
02:26:52.687 --> 02:26:54.655
itself is so large

6591
02:26:54.655 --> 02:26:55.289
and the terrain

6592
02:26:55.289 --> 02:26:55.890
so difficult

6593
02:26:55.890 --> 02:26:56.908
to navigate

6594
02:26:56.908 --> 02:26:58.626
that the recovery team delivers

6595
02:26:58.626 --> 02:27:00.278
the capsule to the clean room

6596
02:27:00.278 --> 02:27:03.264
by helicopter.

6597
02:27:03.447 --> 02:27:04.448
Joe is going to be

6598
02:27:04.448 --> 02:27:04.982
the man

6599
02:27:04.982 --> 02:27:06.601
hauling the capsule

6600
02:27:06.601 --> 02:27:08.219
out on the long line.

6601
02:27:08.219 --> 02:27:09.904
And then Ryan McDonald

6602
02:27:09.904 --> 02:27:10.922
is another member

6603
02:27:10.922 --> 02:27:12.089
and he will be

6604
02:27:12.089 --> 02:27:13.224
hauling scientists

6605
02:27:13.224 --> 02:27:14.842
along with myself,

6606
02:27:14.842 --> 02:27:17.728
the rest of the capture team.

6607
02:27:17.728 --> 02:27:18.029
So, Ben,

6608
02:27:18.029 --> 02:27:18.596
can you tell me

6609
02:27:18.596 --> 02:27:20.431
about the actual procedure

6610
02:27:20.431 --> 02:27:22.099
of taking the capsule

6611
02:27:22.099 --> 02:27:22.984
on the long line?

6612
02:27:22.984 --> 02:27:23.968
It's 100 foot long

6613
02:27:23.968 --> 02:27:25.553
synthetic line.

6614
02:27:25.553 --> 02:27:26.704
It's got an electrical cord

6615
02:27:26.704 --> 02:27:27.638
with it

6616
02:27:27.638 --> 02:27:29.257
that will hook on the belly

6617
02:27:29.257 --> 02:27:31.075
of the helicopter.

6618
02:27:31.075 --> 02:27:31.676
There you go.

6619
02:27:31.676 --> 02:27:33.778
Point it out right?

6620
02:27:33.778 --> 02:27:35.880
Yep. That's the hook.

6621
02:27:35.880 --> 02:27:37.832
The line will go on.

6622
02:27:37.832 --> 02:27:40.167
The pilot will lower this

6623
02:27:40.167 --> 02:27:41.702
hook down

6624
02:27:41.702 --> 02:27:43.588
to pick up the capsule.

6625
02:27:43.588 --> 02:27:44.188
They'll fly it

6626
02:27:44.188 --> 02:27:45.873
back to the clean room,

6627
02:27:45.873 --> 02:27:47.308
lower it down,

6628
02:27:47.308 --> 02:27:48.809
and when he lowers it downhill,

6629
02:27:48.809 --> 02:27:49.627
hit a little button

6630
02:27:49.627 --> 02:27:50.845
on this collective.

6631
02:27:50.845 --> 02:27:52.196
It will release that hook,

6632
02:27:52.196 --> 02:27:55.516
and he'll fly away with the.

6633
02:27:55.583 --> 02:27:57.485
This is not a normal ride.

6634
02:27:57.485 --> 02:27:58.252
Can you show us

6635
02:27:58.252 --> 02:27:59.403
how you fly this

6636
02:27:59.403 --> 02:28:00.805
for this particular mission?

6637
02:28:00.805 --> 02:28:01.255
Yeah.

6638
02:28:01.255 --> 02:28:02.673
So in this helicopter

6639
02:28:02.673 --> 02:28:03.274
when we're doing

6640
02:28:03.274 --> 02:28:04.525
vertical reference,

6641
02:28:04.525 --> 02:28:05.226
that's you call it

6642
02:28:05.226 --> 02:28:06.994
when you have a line on

6643
02:28:06.994 --> 02:28:08.963
now to see the end of the line,

6644
02:28:08.963 --> 02:28:11.215
I'll be leaning out like this.

6645
02:28:11.215 --> 02:28:11.699
It's a,

6646
02:28:11.699 --> 02:28:12.984
it's an awkward position

6647
02:28:12.984 --> 02:28:14.752
and kind of lean

6648
02:28:14.752 --> 02:28:15.336
and look back

6649
02:28:15.336 --> 02:28:15.987
because my hooks

6650
02:28:15.987 --> 02:28:17.071
can be right down

6651
02:28:17.071 --> 02:28:17.555
in the middle of

6652
02:28:17.555 --> 02:28:19.056
the helicopter.

6653
02:28:19.056 --> 02:28:20.725
It will be this button,

6654
02:28:20.725 --> 02:28:21.776
this button here

6655
02:28:21.776 --> 02:28:23.527
is the remote hook.

6656
02:28:23.527 --> 02:28:24.779
And that

6657
02:28:24.779 --> 02:28:25.713
will keep the line

6658
02:28:25.713 --> 02:28:26.464
on the belly,

6659
02:28:26.464 --> 02:28:27.415
but it'll open

6660
02:28:27.415 --> 02:28:28.266
that little green

6661
02:28:28.266 --> 02:28:29.100
remote hook

6662
02:28:29.100 --> 02:28:32.103
when you push it forward.

6663
02:28:32.103 --> 02:28:33.688
The experience of these pilots

6664
02:28:33.688 --> 02:28:34.739
is all a part

6665
02:28:34.739 --> 02:28:35.523
of preserving

6666
02:28:35.523 --> 02:28:36.691
this pristine

6667
02:28:36.691 --> 02:28:38.309
sample of ancient

6668
02:28:38.309 --> 02:28:40.027
solar system material.

6669
02:28:40.027 --> 02:28:41.579
And we all cannot wait

6670
02:28:41.579 --> 02:28:43.264
to see what chemical compounds

6671
02:28:43.264 --> 02:28:48.135
the capsule holds.

6672
02:28:48.202 --> 02:28:48.986
We're now joined

6673
02:28:48.986 --> 02:28:50.071
by Robert Lightfoot

6674
02:28:50.071 --> 02:28:52.106
from Lockheed Martin Space,

6675
02:28:52.106 --> 02:28:53.040
representing the team

6676
02:28:53.040 --> 02:28:53.557
that built

6677
02:28:53.557 --> 02:28:54.175
and flew

6678
02:28:54.175 --> 02:28:56.277
the Osiris-rex spacecraft

6679
02:28:56.277 --> 02:28:57.295
for NASA.

6680
02:28:57.295 --> 02:28:58.863
Robert, welcome.

6681
02:28:58.863 --> 02:29:00.031
Well, thanks for having me.

6682
02:29:00.031 --> 02:29:00.815
What a great day.

6683
02:29:00.815 --> 02:29:01.449
Pretty exciting.

6684
02:29:01.449 --> 02:29:02.099
And it's Robert.

6685
02:29:02.099 --> 02:29:03.601
Thank you. Exciting.

6686
02:29:03.601 --> 02:29:04.385
So this spacecraft

6687
02:29:04.385 --> 02:29:05.519
has many firsts

6688
02:29:05.519 --> 02:29:07.288
and unique tech as well.

6689
02:29:07.288 --> 02:29:08.072
Can you tell us more

6690
02:29:08.072 --> 02:29:09.173
about some of the

6691
02:29:09.173 --> 02:29:09.991
new technologies

6692
02:29:09.991 --> 02:29:11.342
that were integrated into us?

6693
02:29:11.342 --> 02:29:12.209
That was Rex.

6694
02:29:12.209 --> 02:29:12.360
Yeah.

6695
02:29:12.360 --> 02:29:13.044
You know, there's three

6696
02:29:13.044 --> 02:29:14.378
that come to mind for me.

6697
02:29:14.378 --> 02:29:14.946
The first is

6698
02:29:14.946 --> 02:29:15.663
obviously the touch

6699
02:29:15.663 --> 02:29:17.098
and go sample collector,

6700
02:29:17.098 --> 02:29:18.933
where we had to come up

6701
02:29:18.933 --> 02:29:19.233
with what

6702
02:29:19.233 --> 02:29:20.251
we call the pogo stick,

6703
02:29:20.251 --> 02:29:20.935
how we're going to hit,

6704
02:29:20.935 --> 02:29:21.869
how going to hit the asteroid

6705
02:29:21.869 --> 02:29:24.872
and collect the the sample.

6706
02:29:24.989 --> 02:29:26.057
That Was the first thing

6707
02:29:26.057 --> 02:29:26.490
something that

6708
02:29:26.490 --> 02:29:27.475
a natural feature

6709
02:29:27.475 --> 02:29:29.460
terrain activity that we did

6710
02:29:29.460 --> 02:29:31.445
that was really associated with

6711
02:29:31.445 --> 02:29:32.279
it was kind of a backup

6712
02:29:32.279 --> 02:29:33.748
for guidance and navigation,

6713
02:29:33.748 --> 02:29:34.415
but we didn't mean it

6714
02:29:34.415 --> 02:29:34.915
because when we

6715
02:29:34.915 --> 02:29:36.150
to the asteroid, you remember,

6716
02:29:36.150 --> 02:29:37.718
there were very large boulders.

6717
02:29:37.718 --> 02:29:38.602
We didn't expect to see

6718
02:29:38.602 --> 02:29:39.987
that we had to fly through.

6719
02:29:39.987 --> 02:29:40.921
And then finally,

6720
02:29:40.921 --> 02:29:42.456
probably the most unsung part

6721
02:29:42.456 --> 02:29:43.290
was our digital twin.

6722
02:29:43.290 --> 02:29:44.759
We created a digital

6723
02:29:44.759 --> 02:29:46.027
for the spacecraft,

6724
02:29:46.027 --> 02:29:47.378
which, if you remember,

6725
02:29:47.378 --> 02:29:47.845
this was right

6726
02:29:47.845 --> 02:29:49.113
in the middle of COVID, Right.

6727
02:29:49.113 --> 02:29:50.314
And so so

6728
02:29:50.314 --> 02:29:52.016
being able to do the sample

6729
02:29:52.016 --> 02:29:54.485
and use the digital twin

6730
02:29:54.485 --> 02:29:56.137
to to do all the practicing

6731
02:29:56.137 --> 02:29:57.088
for before we took

6732
02:29:57.088 --> 02:29:57.688
the sample was

6733
02:29:57.688 --> 02:29:58.406
probably thrilled that

6734
02:29:58.406 --> 02:29:59.106
those are the three things

6735
02:29:59.106 --> 02:30:00.775
that come to mind for me.

6736
02:30:00.775 --> 02:30:01.292
And Robert,

6737
02:30:01.292 --> 02:30:02.460
you mentioned the Tagsam,

6738
02:30:02.460 --> 02:30:03.961
the critical pogo stick and.

6739
02:30:03.961 --> 02:30:05.429
We heard that it all began

6740
02:30:05.429 --> 02:30:06.163
with a

6741
02:30:06.163 --> 02:30:08.215
red cup in some conversations

6742
02:30:08.215 --> 02:30:09.533
with napkins and things.

6743
02:30:09.533 --> 02:30:10.584
Can you tell us about that

6744
02:30:10.584 --> 02:30:12.303
at exactly what happened?

6745
02:30:12.303 --> 02:30:12.803
I do it.

6746
02:30:12.803 --> 02:30:14.038
I mean, it was a solo cup

6747
02:30:14.038 --> 02:30:15.456
and some kind of activity

6748
02:30:15.456 --> 02:30:16.474
that we did there

6749
02:30:16.474 --> 02:30:17.458
and really

6750
02:30:17.458 --> 02:30:17.975
think about

6751
02:30:17.975 --> 02:30:18.809
some of the most famous

6752
02:30:18.809 --> 02:30:19.777
missions that I've done.

6753
02:30:19.777 --> 02:30:20.194
And that's what

6754
02:30:20.194 --> 02:30:21.846
we've done in the past as we've

6755
02:30:21.846 --> 02:30:22.646
we've used to

6756
02:30:22.646 --> 02:30:23.514
somebody sketched it

6757
02:30:23.514 --> 02:30:24.715
out on a napkin and

6758
02:30:24.715 --> 02:30:25.716
and the engineers

6759
02:30:25.716 --> 02:30:26.667
turn it into reality

6760
02:30:26.667 --> 02:30:27.418
and then the scientists

6761
02:30:27.418 --> 02:30:29.370
get to get their reward.

6762
02:30:29.370 --> 02:30:30.271
Thank you, Robert.

6763
02:30:30.271 --> 02:30:31.238
What a great story.

6764
02:30:31.238 --> 02:30:32.757
What a fantastic story.

6765
02:30:32.757 --> 02:30:33.457
Well Thank you

6766
02:30:33.457 --> 02:30:34.809
so much for joining us, Robert,

6767
02:30:34.809 --> 02:30:36.060
and congratulations again.

6768
02:30:36.060 --> 02:30:36.727
Banks are really proud

6769
02:30:36.727 --> 02:30:37.378
of the team, Lockheed

6770
02:30:37.378 --> 02:30:38.896
Martin team and everything.

6771
02:30:38.896 --> 02:30:40.264
I'll take care.

6772
02:30:40.264 --> 02:30:41.582
We're keeping our eyes

6773
02:30:41.582 --> 02:30:42.683
on ground operations

6774
02:30:42.683 --> 02:30:43.384
as teams work

6775
02:30:43.384 --> 02:30:44.552
to secure the CRC.

6776
02:30:44.552 --> 02:30:45.352
Take measurements

6777
02:30:45.352 --> 02:30:46.504
at the landing site

6778
02:30:46.504 --> 02:30:47.705
and get everything ready

6779
02:30:47.705 --> 02:30:48.472
for its transit

6780
02:30:48.472 --> 02:30:49.673
to a specially prepared

6781
02:30:49.673 --> 02:30:52.143
clean room a few miles away.

6782
02:30:52.143 --> 02:30:53.644
Today's is a big day,

6783
02:30:53.644 --> 02:30:54.578
but to tell you the truth,

6784
02:30:54.578 --> 02:30:55.596
Natalya is starry

6785
02:30:55.596 --> 02:30:56.697
eyed about asteroids

6786
02:30:56.697 --> 02:30:57.998
and for good reason.

6787
02:30:57.998 --> 02:30:59.033
Asteroids are time

6788
02:30:59.033 --> 02:31:00.418
capsules for the solar system

6789
02:31:00.418 --> 02:31:01.052
and are vital

6790
02:31:01.052 --> 02:31:02.670
research destinations

6791
02:31:02.670 --> 02:31:04.472
for learning about our origins

6792
02:31:04.472 --> 02:31:06.273
and perhaps our futures.

6793
02:31:06.273 --> 02:31:07.074
While today's events

6794
02:31:07.074 --> 02:31:08.225
focus on returning

6795
02:31:08.225 --> 02:31:09.660
bits of the asteroid bennu,

6796
02:31:09.660 --> 02:31:11.195
that's not the only asteroid

6797
02:31:11.195 --> 02:31:12.713
in NASA's plans.

6798
02:31:12.713 --> 02:31:13.497
Let's take a look

6799
02:31:13.497 --> 02:31:14.582
at a glittering list

6800
02:31:14.582 --> 02:31:15.666
of other places

6801
02:31:15.666 --> 02:31:19.453
where and where to visit.

6802
02:31:19.537 --> 02:31:20.521
One year ago, on

6803
02:31:20.521 --> 02:31:22.823
September 26, 2022,

6804
02:31:22.823 --> 02:31:24.058
NASA's DART mission

6805
02:31:24.058 --> 02:31:25.292
navigated to the small

6806
02:31:25.292 --> 02:31:26.427
asteroid that amorphous

6807
02:31:26.427 --> 02:31:27.278
and deliberately

6808
02:31:27.278 --> 02:31:28.712
crashed into it.

6809
02:31:28.712 --> 02:31:29.346
Dimorphism

6810
02:31:29.346 --> 02:31:30.698
is a tiny moon orbiting

6811
02:31:30.698 --> 02:31:32.216
the asteroid did a miss,

6812
02:31:32.216 --> 02:31:33.300
which is just a bit

6813
02:31:33.300 --> 02:31:34.268
larger than Bennu

6814
02:31:34.268 --> 02:31:36.904
and composed of stony material.

6815
02:31:36.904 --> 02:31:38.405
The dart impact

6816
02:31:38.405 --> 02:31:39.473
amorphous orbital

6817
02:31:39.473 --> 02:31:41.275
period by 33 minutes,

6818
02:31:41.275 --> 02:31:42.993
making it the first full scale

6819
02:31:42.993 --> 02:31:44.728
demonstration of asteroid

6820
02:31:44.728 --> 02:31:46.831
deflection technology.

6821
02:31:46.831 --> 02:31:47.665
This summer,

6822
02:31:47.665 --> 02:31:48.365
while the Bennu

6823
02:31:48.365 --> 02:31:49.533
samples were approaching,

6824
02:31:49.533 --> 02:31:50.634
Earth, technicians

6825
02:31:50.634 --> 02:31:51.385
in Titusville,

6826
02:31:51.385 --> 02:31:52.536
Florida, were preparing

6827
02:31:52.536 --> 02:31:53.854
the psyche spacecraft

6828
02:31:53.854 --> 02:31:55.022
to visit an asteroid

6829
02:31:55.022 --> 02:31:56.757
of a different type.

6830
02:31:56.757 --> 02:31:57.842
Psyche is named

6831
02:31:57.842 --> 02:31:58.559
after its

6832
02:31:58.559 --> 02:32:00.094
massive target

6833
02:32:00.094 --> 02:32:01.295
16 psyche.

6834
02:32:01.295 --> 02:32:02.813
which is about 400 times

6835
02:32:02.813 --> 02:32:03.998
larger than Bennu

6836
02:32:03.998 --> 02:32:05.616
and more than three times

6837
02:32:05.616 --> 02:32:06.634
as dense.

6838
02:32:06.634 --> 02:32:07.735
The psyche

6839
02:32:07.735 --> 02:32:08.252
will visit

6840
02:32:08.252 --> 02:32:09.837
an asteroid that may consist

6841
02:32:09.837 --> 02:32:10.855
of a significant

6842
02:32:10.855 --> 02:32:12.306
amount of nickel ion

6843
02:32:12.306 --> 02:32:14.308
metal mixed with rock.

6844
02:32:14.308 --> 02:32:15.543
It will remotely study

6845
02:32:15.543 --> 02:32:17.995
16 Psyche's Elemental

6846
02:32:17.995 --> 02:32:20.064
topography and gravitational

6847
02:32:20.064 --> 02:32:21.549
and magnetic fields.

6848
02:32:21.549 --> 02:32:22.016
The mission

6849
02:32:22.016 --> 02:32:23.184
will provide insights

6850
02:32:23.184 --> 02:32:24.118
into the formation

6851
02:32:24.118 --> 02:32:25.386
of terrestrial planets

6852
02:32:25.386 --> 02:32:26.487
like Earth.

6853
02:32:26.487 --> 02:32:27.605
Psyche's window

6854
02:32:27.605 --> 02:32:29.707
opens on October 5th.

6855
02:32:29.707 --> 02:32:30.424
November.

6856
02:32:30.424 --> 02:32:32.009
Maybe sweater weather for folks

6857
02:32:32.009 --> 02:32:33.327
in the Northern Hemisphere.

6858
02:32:33.327 --> 02:32:34.795
But for the Lucy mission,

6859
02:32:34.795 --> 02:32:37.114
things will just be heating up.

6860
02:32:37.114 --> 02:32:38.249
On November 1st,

6861
02:32:38.249 --> 02:32:39.750
Lucy will train its cameras

6862
02:32:39.750 --> 02:32:40.568
on the main belt.

6863
02:32:40.568 --> 02:32:42.203
Asteroid disconnection.

6864
02:32:42.203 --> 02:32:43.320
It will take pictures

6865
02:32:43.320 --> 02:32:43.988
while rapidly

6866
02:32:43.988 --> 02:32:44.738
flying by

6867
02:32:44.738 --> 02:32:45.990
and test its ability

6868
02:32:45.990 --> 02:32:47.124
to track asteroids

6869
02:32:47.124 --> 02:32:49.176
during high speed encounters.

6870
02:32:49.176 --> 02:32:49.793
The Disconnect

6871
02:32:49.793 --> 02:32:51.178
flyby will prepare Lucy

6872
02:32:51.178 --> 02:32:52.530
for its next encounter

6873
02:32:52.530 --> 02:32:53.464
with the main belt

6874
02:32:53.464 --> 02:32:54.365
asteroid Donald

6875
02:32:54.365 --> 02:32:56.584
Johanson in 2025.

6876
02:32:56.584 --> 02:32:58.018
In 2027,

6877
02:32:58.018 --> 02:32:59.904
Lucy will begin its long trip

6878
02:32:59.904 --> 02:33:00.654
through the Jupiter

6879
02:33:00.654 --> 02:33:01.405
Trojans

6880
02:33:01.405 --> 02:33:02.122
to swarms

6881
02:33:02.122 --> 02:33:02.857
of primitive

6882
02:33:02.857 --> 02:33:03.874
asteroids trapped

6883
02:33:03.874 --> 02:33:04.975
in Jupiter's orbit

6884
02:33:04.975 --> 02:33:06.810
that are thought to be the

6885
02:33:06.810 --> 02:33:08.512
of planet formation.

6886
02:33:08.512 --> 02:33:09.246
As the weather

6887
02:33:09.246 --> 02:33:10.381
starts to cool down.

6888
02:33:10.381 --> 02:33:11.665
Hold on to your hats.

6889
02:33:11.665 --> 02:33:12.299
It's going to be an

6890
02:33:12.299 --> 02:33:17.988
asteroid autumn to remember.

6891
02:33:18.055 --> 02:33:19.707
A lot of work obviously went

6892
02:33:19.707 --> 02:33:20.307
into getting this

6893
02:33:20.307 --> 02:33:21.208
special delivery

6894
02:33:21.208 --> 02:33:21.659
to Earth,

6895
02:33:21.659 --> 02:33:23.160
but our pursuit for scientific

6896
02:33:23.160 --> 02:33:25.196
answers is just beginning.

6897
02:33:25.196 --> 02:33:25.646
Joining US

6898
02:33:25.646 --> 02:33:26.814
now is Danny Glavin

6899
02:33:26.814 --> 02:33:27.898
co-investigator

6900
02:33:27.898 --> 02:33:30.000
on the Osiris-rex mission.

6901
02:33:30.000 --> 02:33:30.885
Danny, welcome.

6902
02:33:30.885 --> 02:33:32.002
Thank you.

6903
02:33:32.002 --> 02:33:33.204
It's great to have samples.

6904
02:33:33.204 --> 02:33:35.573
We got an incredible

6905
02:33:35.573 --> 02:33:36.240
you know, so

6906
02:33:36.240 --> 02:33:37.208
Danny is somebody who looks

6907
02:33:37.208 --> 02:33:38.309
for the building blocks of life

6908
02:33:38.309 --> 02:33:40.044
in extraterrestrial materials.

6909
02:33:40.044 --> 02:33:41.128
What are you expecting to

6910
02:33:41.128 --> 02:33:42.780
find in the Bennu sample?

6911
02:33:42.780 --> 02:33:43.197
Yeah.

6912
02:33:43.197 --> 02:33:44.198
So, I mean, we're definitely

6913
02:33:44.198 --> 02:33:45.266
looking for the building

6914
02:33:45.266 --> 02:33:45.749
of life,

6915
02:33:45.749 --> 02:33:46.317
and we've been

6916
02:33:46.317 --> 02:33:47.218
studying meteorites

6917
02:33:47.218 --> 02:33:50.221
that we think look like bennu.

6918
02:33:50.254 --> 02:33:51.388
And so I fully expect

6919
02:33:51.388 --> 02:33:52.106
to find amino

6920
02:33:52.106 --> 02:33:53.190
acids, the building blocks

6921
02:33:53.190 --> 02:33:54.275
of proteins,

6922
02:33:54.275 --> 02:33:56.877
sugars, energy source for life,

6923
02:33:56.877 --> 02:33:58.329
nucleus basis, right.

6924
02:33:58.329 --> 02:34:00.564
Parts of the genetic code.

6925
02:34:00.564 --> 02:34:01.498
So we'll see what

6926
02:34:01.498 --> 02:34:02.583
that tells us.

6927
02:34:02.583 --> 02:34:02.917
One thing

6928
02:34:02.917 --> 02:34:03.484
I've learned from this

6929
02:34:03.484 --> 02:34:05.152
mission is so many surprises.

6930
02:34:05.152 --> 02:34:06.086
Sample analysis

6931
02:34:06.086 --> 02:34:07.705
probably won't be an exception.

6932
02:34:07.705 --> 02:34:09.173
We're going to be surprised.

6933
02:34:09.173 --> 02:34:10.975
So so, Danny,

6934
02:34:10.975 --> 02:34:11.825
I want to talk to you

6935
02:34:11.825 --> 02:34:12.393
about some of the

6936
02:34:12.393 --> 02:34:13.344
new techniques you use,

6937
02:34:13.344 --> 02:34:14.278
but I'm going to introduce

6938
02:34:14.278 --> 02:34:15.262
a guest.

6939
02:34:15.262 --> 02:34:16.313
We have

6940
02:34:16.313 --> 02:34:17.348
this little guest here

6941
02:34:17.348 --> 02:34:18.515
is actually a meteorite

6942
02:34:18.515 --> 02:34:18.966
from Mars.

6943
02:34:18.966 --> 02:34:20.034
And you've looked at those.

6944
02:34:20.034 --> 02:34:21.302
Yeah, this is a new one.

6945
02:34:21.302 --> 02:34:22.136
We know it's from Mars.

6946
02:34:22.136 --> 02:34:23.304
This measurements from Viking

6947
02:34:23.304 --> 02:34:25.322
Curiosity tells us that.

6948
02:34:25.322 --> 02:34:25.823
But it's,

6949
02:34:25.823 --> 02:34:26.123
you know,

6950
02:34:26.123 --> 02:34:26.523
it's like

6951
02:34:26.523 --> 02:34:28.225
taking the ride from Mars here,

6952
02:34:28.225 --> 02:34:29.610
that Mother Nature gave it.

6953
02:34:29.610 --> 02:34:30.878
So can you kind of talk

6954
02:34:30.878 --> 02:34:31.528
about the techniques

6955
02:34:31.528 --> 02:34:31.912
you'll use

6956
02:34:31.912 --> 02:34:33.564
in those primitive materials

6957
02:34:33.564 --> 02:34:35.282
that we have on the samples

6958
02:34:35.282 --> 02:34:36.116
from venue versus

6959
02:34:36.116 --> 02:34:36.667
those you use

6960
02:34:36.667 --> 02:34:37.568
on these meteorites,

6961
02:34:37.568 --> 02:34:38.218
like from Mars?

6962
02:34:38.218 --> 02:34:39.153
Yeah, actually, you know,

6963
02:34:39.153 --> 02:34:39.536
there are going to be

6964
02:34:39.536 --> 02:34:40.771
some of the same techniques.

6965
02:34:40.771 --> 02:34:42.606
We studied Mars meteorites.

6966
02:34:42.606 --> 02:34:42.873
Of course,

6967
02:34:42.873 --> 02:34:44.558
one of the challenges with all

6968
02:34:44.558 --> 02:34:45.926
is they get contaminated

6969
02:34:45.926 --> 02:34:46.744
when they get around.

6970
02:34:46.744 --> 02:34:47.695
You're looking for the building

6971
02:34:47.695 --> 02:34:48.512
blocks of life.

6972
02:34:48.512 --> 02:34:49.263
And, you know,

6973
02:34:49.263 --> 02:34:50.097
the contamination

6974
02:34:50.097 --> 02:34:50.965
really makes it hard

6975
02:34:50.965 --> 02:34:51.482
to tease out

6976
02:34:51.482 --> 02:34:53.033
what formed in space.

6977
02:34:53.033 --> 02:34:54.668
So that's why this so special.

6978
02:34:54.668 --> 02:34:55.769
These bennu samples,

6979
02:34:55.769 --> 02:34:57.304
pristine materials. Right.

6980
02:34:57.304 --> 02:34:57.788
We're going to be able

6981
02:34:57.788 --> 02:34:59.373
to trust the organic results

6982
02:34:59.373 --> 02:35:00.474
from these samples.

6983
02:35:00.474 --> 02:35:01.175
I just can't tell you

6984
02:35:01.175 --> 02:35:02.092
how excited.

6985
02:35:02.092 --> 02:35:02.693
Well, so

6986
02:35:02.693 --> 02:35:04.478
our Martian gives us the

6987
02:35:04.478 --> 02:35:06.180
to know that to be ready

6988
02:35:06.180 --> 02:35:07.231
for what you have on Bennu

6989
02:35:07.231 --> 02:35:08.098
and to get ready for Mars

6990
02:35:08.098 --> 02:35:08.766
sample return

6991
02:35:08.766 --> 02:35:09.566
when we conduct that.

6992
02:35:09.566 --> 02:35:10.200
Absolutely.

6993
02:35:10.200 --> 02:35:10.384
I mean,

6994
02:35:10.384 --> 02:35:11.185
we've been practicing

6995
02:35:11.185 --> 02:35:11.769
on meteorites

6996
02:35:11.769 --> 02:35:12.836
to get ready for bennu

6997
02:35:12.836 --> 02:35:14.288
and we are ready.

6998
02:35:14.288 --> 02:35:15.723
They're ready. We're ready.

6999
02:35:15.723 --> 02:35:17.524
Let's go, Let's go.

7000
02:35:17.524 --> 02:35:18.609
And how exciting is

7001
02:35:18.609 --> 02:35:20.194
a piece of my Mars?

7002
02:35:20.194 --> 02:35:21.095
Oh, my God.

7003
02:35:21.095 --> 02:35:22.896
You'll be touching Bennu.

7004
02:35:22.896 --> 02:35:24.365
Well, not with fingers.

7005
02:35:24.365 --> 02:35:25.232
That's right.

7006
02:35:25.232 --> 02:35:26.884
Like all occasions,

7007
02:35:26.884 --> 02:35:28.552
your loved one

7008
02:35:28.552 --> 02:35:29.253
is approaching

7009
02:35:29.253 --> 02:35:30.804
the general vicinity.

7010
02:35:30.804 --> 02:35:32.339
Well, the first thing.

7011
02:35:32.339 --> 02:35:33.324
All right, so you just heard.

7012
02:35:33.324 --> 02:35:34.058
We are approaching

7013
02:35:34.058 --> 02:35:35.075
the clean room facility.

7014
02:35:35.075 --> 02:35:36.427
Let's toss to Jim for James

7015
02:35:36.427 --> 02:35:37.344
for an update. Take it away.

7016
02:35:37.344 --> 02:35:37.828
Yeah.

7017
02:35:37.828 --> 02:35:38.162
Lance,

7018
02:35:38.162 --> 02:35:39.596
this is the final leg

7019
02:35:39.596 --> 02:35:41.248
of the journey of the CRC.

7020
02:35:41.248 --> 02:35:42.333
It has been loaded

7021
02:35:42.333 --> 02:35:43.167
on the helicopter

7022
02:35:43.167 --> 02:35:44.435
a few minutes ago

7023
02:35:44.435 --> 02:35:45.352
with a long line

7024
02:35:45.352 --> 02:35:46.587
to get those operations,

7025
02:35:46.587 --> 02:35:47.755
to bring it back to the Dugway

7026
02:35:47.755 --> 02:35:48.489
Clean Room.

7027
02:35:48.489 --> 02:35:49.289
And in just a few moments,

7028
02:35:49.289 --> 02:35:49.973
we'll have a nice view

7029
02:35:49.973 --> 02:35:51.125
from just outside us here

7030
02:35:51.125 --> 02:35:52.493
as it comes back over.

7031
02:35:52.493 --> 02:35:53.043
And I can see.

7032
02:35:53.043 --> 02:35:53.610
Actually right now,

7033
02:35:53.610 --> 02:35:54.578
we have a view

7034
02:35:54.578 --> 02:35:55.946
of that helicopter

7035
02:35:55.946 --> 02:35:57.564
with the SLC attached below

7036
02:35:57.564 --> 02:35:59.783
coming into view

7037
02:35:59.783 --> 02:36:00.901
over the Dugway Cleanroom.

7038
02:36:00.901 --> 02:36:02.736
You can see this wonderful

7039
02:36:02.736 --> 02:36:03.687
final view

7040
02:36:03.687 --> 02:36:04.988
and because we're able to

7041
02:36:04.988 --> 02:36:05.572
transport it

7042
02:36:05.572 --> 02:36:06.457
this way, this is determine

7043
02:36:06.457 --> 02:36:07.825
the most efficient way

7044
02:36:07.825 --> 02:36:09.326
to actually get this SIRC

7045
02:36:09.326 --> 02:36:10.377
to the clean room.

7046
02:36:10.377 --> 02:36:11.962
It gives us a phenomenal

7047
02:36:11.962 --> 02:36:12.663
final view

7048
02:36:12.663 --> 02:36:14.164
here of that last flight.

7049
02:36:14.164 --> 02:36:15.449
Truly a parade

7050
02:36:15.449 --> 02:36:17.217
for the sample return here.

7051
02:36:17.217 --> 02:36:18.719
And just a stunning view

7052
02:36:18.719 --> 02:36:19.686
of the Utah test

7053
02:36:19.686 --> 02:36:20.738
and training range

7054
02:36:20.738 --> 02:36:22.106
surrounding mountains.

7055
02:36:22.106 --> 02:36:24.541
And there is that SIRC beneath

7056
02:36:24.541 --> 02:36:25.259
the helicopter

7057
02:36:25.259 --> 02:36:25.859
with the long line.

7058
02:36:25.859 --> 02:36:26.877
There's about a hundred foot

7059
02:36:26.877 --> 02:36:28.195
of that long line there.

7060
02:36:28.195 --> 02:36:28.645
You heard from

7061
02:36:28.645 --> 02:36:29.346
one of our helicopter

7062
02:36:29.346 --> 02:36:31.348
pilots earlier that they

7063
02:36:31.348 --> 02:36:33.083
do this a very carefully.

7064
02:36:33.083 --> 02:36:34.168
They hang out the window

7065
02:36:34.168 --> 02:36:35.035
of that plane,

7066
02:36:35.035 --> 02:36:36.036
of the helicopter, rather,

7067
02:36:36.036 --> 02:36:38.038
to determine

7068
02:36:38.038 --> 02:36:39.323
the safety of that SIRC,

7069
02:36:39.323 --> 02:36:39.757
making sure

7070
02:36:39.757 --> 02:36:40.674
that they are continuing

7071
02:36:40.674 --> 02:36:42.242
to travel

7072
02:36:42.242 --> 02:36:43.527
properly with this SIRC

7073
02:36:43.527 --> 02:36:44.545
to the clean room.

7074
02:36:44.545 --> 02:36:45.396
And as we speak, team

7075
02:36:45.396 --> 02:36:47.097
members are staged and waiting

7076
02:36:47.097 --> 02:36:48.599
just outside that clean room,

7077
02:36:48.599 --> 02:36:50.217
ready to get that SIRC

7078
02:36:50.217 --> 02:36:52.286
back on the ground once more.

7079
02:36:52.286 --> 02:36:53.320
There are team members

7080
02:36:53.320 --> 02:36:54.755
already in the clean room

7081
02:36:54.755 --> 02:36:55.255
gowned up.

7082
02:36:55.255 --> 02:36:56.073
They've been waiting there

7083
02:36:56.073 --> 02:36:57.007
all morning.

7084
02:36:57.007 --> 02:36:58.509
They know what they need to do

7085
02:36:58.509 --> 02:36:59.076
for this next step

7086
02:36:59.076 --> 02:37:00.627
to get that ICRC in.

7087
02:37:00.627 --> 02:37:01.862
It's going to actually be

7088
02:37:01.862 --> 02:37:03.564
wheeled into the clean room.

7089
02:37:03.564 --> 02:37:04.047
They're going to go

7090
02:37:04.047 --> 02:37:05.215
through a brief operation

7091
02:37:05.215 --> 02:37:05.999
of cleaning off

7092
02:37:05.999 --> 02:37:06.417
a little bit

7093
02:37:06.417 --> 02:37:07.418
of the thermal blanketing,

7094
02:37:07.418 --> 02:37:08.786
taking all of that off

7095
02:37:08.786 --> 02:37:10.053
and then wheeling the SIRC

7096
02:37:10.053 --> 02:37:12.072
and placing it into room.

7097
02:37:12.072 --> 02:37:12.873
They're going to remove

7098
02:37:12.873 --> 02:37:13.323
the heat

7099
02:37:13.323 --> 02:37:15.592
shield in the back of the SIRC

7100
02:37:15.592 --> 02:37:16.193
and actually get

7101
02:37:16.193 --> 02:37:17.177
the sample canister out.

7102
02:37:17.177 --> 02:37:17.911
You just heard from Jim

7103
02:37:17.911 --> 02:37:18.745
a few moments ago.

7104
02:37:18.745 --> 02:37:20.013
The most important next up

7105
02:37:20.013 --> 02:37:21.398
here is getting that sample

7106
02:37:21.398 --> 02:37:23.434
canister on a nitrogen purge.

7107
02:37:23.434 --> 02:37:24.418
And we'll remind you again,

7108
02:37:24.418 --> 02:37:25.736
that is to keep the sample

7109
02:37:25.736 --> 02:37:27.304
within pristine

7110
02:37:27.304 --> 02:37:28.238
uncontaminated

7111
02:37:28.238 --> 02:37:29.723
from the atmospheric particles

7112
02:37:29.723 --> 02:37:30.757
that surround us,

7113
02:37:30.757 --> 02:37:32.376
getting that sample nice.

7114
02:37:32.376 --> 02:37:34.812
And on that nitrogen purge,

7115
02:37:34.895 --> 02:37:35.729
just a great view.

7116
02:37:35.729 --> 02:37:36.180
You can see it

7117
02:37:36.180 --> 02:37:37.498
hanging beneath our helicopter.

7118
02:37:37.498 --> 02:37:39.116
They're not seeing it at all

7119
02:37:39.116 --> 02:37:40.050
because of that gimbal

7120
02:37:40.050 --> 02:37:41.168
that is keeping it stable.

7121
02:37:41.168 --> 02:37:42.870
Low winds today.

7122
02:37:42.870 --> 02:37:44.254
And then as our C

7123
02:37:44.254 --> 02:37:45.055
is bagged

7124
02:37:45.055 --> 02:37:46.406
in several blanketing

7125
02:37:46.406 --> 02:37:48.659
inside that cargo netting.

7126
02:37:48.659 --> 02:37:49.626
And in just a few moments,

7127
02:37:49.626 --> 02:37:51.128
it's going to be lowered down.

7128
02:37:51.128 --> 02:37:51.728
Team members

7129
02:37:51.728 --> 02:37:55.933
outside the clean room,

7130
02:37:56.016 --> 02:37:56.817
the first team members

7131
02:37:56.817 --> 02:37:58.535
to actually approach this scene

7132
02:37:58.535 --> 02:37:59.820
once it lands will be wearing

7133
02:37:59.820 --> 02:38:00.604
personal protective

7134
02:38:00.604 --> 02:38:01.688
equipment and gas masks.

7135
02:38:01.688 --> 02:38:03.307
Once again,

7136
02:38:03.307 --> 02:38:04.374
they're going to do another

7137
02:38:04.374 --> 02:38:05.275
safety assessment

7138
02:38:05.275 --> 02:38:07.594
of that SIRC approaching with

7139
02:38:07.594 --> 02:38:08.462
those PPE

7140
02:38:08.462 --> 02:38:09.813
to take gas measurements

7141
02:38:09.813 --> 02:38:10.898
to make sure that the batteries

7142
02:38:10.898 --> 02:38:11.515
did not heat up

7143
02:38:11.515 --> 02:38:12.332
and out gas at all

7144
02:38:12.332 --> 02:38:14.401
during this short flight.

7145
02:38:14.401 --> 02:38:15.002
And then once

7146
02:38:15.002 --> 02:38:15.752
they give the greenlight,

7147
02:38:15.752 --> 02:38:16.537
there will be a brief

7148
02:38:16.537 --> 02:38:17.905
team huddle

7149
02:38:17.905 --> 02:38:18.805
and then the

7150
02:38:18.805 --> 02:38:20.257
next step of the recovery

7151
02:38:20.257 --> 02:38:21.925
operations will continue.

7152
02:38:21.925 --> 02:38:22.893
They'll get that SIRC

7153
02:38:22.893 --> 02:38:25.646
onto a small carrying cart

7154
02:38:25.646 --> 02:38:26.196
and you can see

7155
02:38:26.196 --> 02:38:26.797
it being lowered

7156
02:38:26.797 --> 02:38:27.931
down the clean room,

7157
02:38:27.931 --> 02:38:28.882
The top of the clean room.

7158
02:38:28.882 --> 02:38:30.384
The building, rather,

7159
02:38:30.384 --> 02:38:31.835
is in view

7160
02:38:31.835 --> 02:38:33.570
and that SIRC is coming down

7161
02:38:33.570 --> 02:38:36.757
to the ground,

7162
02:38:36.840 --> 02:38:39.209
slowly being lowered.

7163
02:38:39.209 --> 02:38:40.077
Everything about this

7164
02:38:40.077 --> 02:38:41.461
has been carefully planned out,

7165
02:38:41.461 --> 02:38:44.131
a very slow process.

7166
02:38:44.131 --> 02:38:45.115
You can see a wonderful view

7167
02:38:45.115 --> 02:38:45.682
of the Stasi

7168
02:38:45.682 --> 02:38:46.917
in the cargo netting.

7169
02:38:46.917 --> 02:38:47.968
That metal piece on the bottom

7170
02:38:47.968 --> 02:38:49.052
is the carrying fixture

7171
02:38:49.052 --> 02:38:49.536
that helps team

7172
02:38:49.536 --> 02:38:50.153
members actually

7173
02:38:50.153 --> 02:38:53.156
carry this SIRC.

7174
02:38:53.273 --> 02:38:54.841
In just a few moments.

7175
02:38:54.841 --> 02:38:56.193
Yes, her seat will be back

7176
02:38:56.193 --> 02:38:57.394
on the ground,

7177
02:38:57.394 --> 02:38:57.878
its second

7178
02:38:57.878 --> 02:38:59.046
touchdown of the day,

7179
02:38:59.046 --> 02:38:59.963
a much calmer

7180
02:38:59.963 --> 02:39:00.664
one than we had

7181
02:39:00.664 --> 02:39:02.399
earlier this morning.

7182
02:39:02.399 --> 02:39:02.916
And you see

7183
02:39:02.916 --> 02:39:04.117
members approaching,

7184
02:39:04.117 --> 02:39:05.135
grabbing that co-ordinating

7185
02:39:05.135 --> 02:39:06.420
to get the SSA on the ground.

7186
02:39:06.420 --> 02:39:07.437
And in just a few seconds

7187
02:39:07.437 --> 02:39:08.589
we'll have a release

7188
02:39:08.589 --> 02:39:09.990
of that long line.

7189
02:39:09.990 --> 02:39:12.025
And there you have it,

7190
02:39:12.025 --> 02:39:13.377
the Stasi has arrived

7191
02:39:13.377 --> 02:39:14.545
at the clean room claps

7192
02:39:14.545 --> 02:39:15.062
from the audience

7193
02:39:15.062 --> 02:39:15.596
in the back room.

7194
02:39:15.596 --> 02:39:16.263
They're very excited

7195
02:39:16.263 --> 02:39:17.014
to have this back

7196
02:39:17.014 --> 02:39:18.332
on the ground.

7197
02:39:18.332 --> 02:39:19.199
And then just a few moments,

7198
02:39:19.199 --> 02:39:20.334
team members will approach

7199
02:39:20.334 --> 02:39:22.953
a very excited celebration.

7200
02:39:23.036 --> 02:39:25.355
Great to have it on the ground.

7201
02:39:25.355 --> 02:39:26.573
And this is the last

7202
02:39:26.573 --> 02:39:27.324
step of the process

7203
02:39:27.324 --> 02:39:28.208
for today's event,

7204
02:39:28.208 --> 02:39:29.126
getting that Stasi

7205
02:39:29.126 --> 02:39:30.060
in the clean room.

7206
02:39:30.060 --> 02:39:30.844
In just a few moments,

7207
02:39:30.844 --> 02:39:31.111
you'll see

7208
02:39:31.111 --> 02:39:32.396
team members approaching

7209
02:39:32.396 --> 02:39:33.113
and beginning

7210
02:39:33.113 --> 02:39:34.982
to unwrap the gift within.

7211
02:39:34.982 --> 02:39:35.365
You can see

7212
02:39:35.365 --> 02:39:36.183
our first team members

7213
02:39:36.183 --> 02:39:36.683
walking up

7214
02:39:36.683 --> 02:39:40.571
with that gas mask on.

7215
02:39:40.654 --> 02:39:41.638
This is once again for team

7216
02:39:41.638 --> 02:39:43.173
members safety,

7217
02:39:43.173 --> 02:39:43.807
just to make sure

7218
02:39:43.807 --> 02:39:44.608
that the operations

7219
02:39:44.608 --> 02:39:46.043
are continuing nominally,

7220
02:39:46.043 --> 02:39:47.878
that there are no possible

7221
02:39:47.878 --> 02:39:48.445
outgassing

7222
02:39:48.445 --> 02:39:51.114
from the batteries within.

7223
02:39:51.114 --> 02:39:52.499
The rest of the team will wait

7224
02:39:52.499 --> 02:39:52.983
for this

7225
02:39:52.983 --> 02:39:54.084
initial safety assessment

7226
02:39:54.084 --> 02:39:56.853
before making their approach,

7227
02:39:56.853 --> 02:39:58.505
and there was some assistance

7228
02:39:58.505 --> 02:39:59.156
for the step.

7229
02:39:59.156 --> 02:40:00.274
The process from our team

7230
02:40:00.274 --> 02:40:02.192
members out in the field,

7231
02:40:02.192 --> 02:40:03.594
They when they bagged

7232
02:40:03.594 --> 02:40:05.395
the recovery operations

7233
02:40:05.395 --> 02:40:07.714
and the SRP has been delivered

7234
02:40:07.714 --> 02:40:09.566
to the cleaning facility

7235
02:40:09.566 --> 02:40:10.584
and has been prepared

7236
02:40:10.584 --> 02:40:11.768
to transfer

7237
02:40:11.768 --> 02:40:13.437
into the clean room.

7238
02:40:13.437 --> 02:40:14.755
So Zoe's removing the cargo

7239
02:40:14.755 --> 02:40:15.205
netting now

7240
02:40:15.205 --> 02:40:15.539
and she's

7241
02:40:15.539 --> 02:40:18.325
going to look at those X marks,

7242
02:40:18.325 --> 02:40:19.192
those tape,

7243
02:40:19.192 --> 02:40:19.943
the markers there,

7244
02:40:19.943 --> 02:40:20.761
they're kept on tape

7245
02:40:20.761 --> 02:40:21.745
that the team out in the field

7246
02:40:21.745 --> 02:40:22.496
actually placed

7247
02:40:22.496 --> 02:40:23.947
on that thermal blanketing.

7248
02:40:23.947 --> 02:40:24.898
They let her know exactly

7249
02:40:24.898 --> 02:40:25.766
where the air vents are,

7250
02:40:25.766 --> 02:40:28.352
the gas vents on the sa c

7251
02:40:28.352 --> 02:40:29.369
so she doesn't have to unwrap

7252
02:40:29.369 --> 02:40:30.003
the whole thing.

7253
02:40:30.003 --> 02:40:31.021
She can just unwrap

7254
02:40:31.021 --> 02:40:31.838
that small part

7255
02:40:31.838 --> 02:40:33.390
and take her gas readings

7256
02:40:33.390 --> 02:40:33.924
just to make sure

7257
02:40:33.924 --> 02:40:34.291
that we're not

7258
02:40:34.291 --> 02:40:35.275
accessing anything from

7259
02:40:35.275 --> 02:40:37.327
the batteries within.

7260
02:40:37.394 --> 02:40:38.195
She'll still take, once

7261
02:40:38.195 --> 02:40:39.396
again some thermal measurements

7262
02:40:39.396 --> 02:40:40.347
just to make sure when safe

7263
02:40:40.347 --> 02:40:41.281
operational temperatures.

7264
02:40:41.281 --> 02:40:42.449
We don't anticipate

7265
02:40:42.449 --> 02:40:43.350
any kind of additional

7266
02:40:43.350 --> 02:40:44.017
heating on that.

7267
02:40:44.017 --> 02:40:44.401
SIRC,

7268
02:40:44.401 --> 02:40:45.419
you can see her opening up

7269
02:40:45.419 --> 02:40:46.203
ever so slightly.

7270
02:40:46.203 --> 02:40:47.454
That thermal blanketing

7271
02:40:47.454 --> 02:40:50.040
right at that, kept on tape

7272
02:40:50.040 --> 02:40:51.658
taking her readings.

7273
02:40:51.658 --> 02:40:52.859
You can see another layer

7274
02:40:52.859 --> 02:40:53.427
of that thermal

7275
02:40:53.427 --> 02:40:54.661
blanketing there

7276
02:40:54.661 --> 02:40:56.496
and then the saucy is safely

7277
02:40:56.496 --> 02:41:00.584
stored.

7278
02:41:00.667 --> 02:41:02.169
She's further unwrapping

7279
02:41:02.169 --> 02:41:03.487
the s RCU.

7280
02:41:03.487 --> 02:41:04.237
There is additional

7281
02:41:04.237 --> 02:41:04.805
thermal blanket.

7282
02:41:04.805 --> 02:41:05.455
You can see there's

7283
02:41:05.455 --> 02:41:06.123
a couple of layers.

7284
02:41:06.123 --> 02:41:06.873
There's two layers,

7285
02:41:06.873 --> 02:41:07.674
the thermal blanketing

7286
02:41:07.674 --> 02:41:08.558
and then the tarp

7287
02:41:08.558 --> 02:41:11.495
over top everything.

7288
02:41:11.495 --> 02:41:12.746
She just needs to access

7289
02:41:12.746 --> 02:41:14.648
that interior part

7290
02:41:14.648 --> 02:41:16.516
and take her gas reading.

7291
02:41:16.516 --> 02:41:17.634
You see her with the instrument

7292
02:41:17.634 --> 02:41:18.485
now taking initial

7293
02:41:18.485 --> 02:41:20.754
thermal temperature reading

7294
02:41:20.754 --> 02:41:21.588
and not of the head there.

7295
02:41:21.588 --> 02:41:21.955
It looks like

7296
02:41:21.955 --> 02:41:23.457
everything is nominal

7297
02:41:23.457 --> 02:41:24.124
and she'll

7298
02:41:24.124 --> 02:41:30.163
take a gas reading here.

7299
02:41:30.247 --> 02:41:31.231
Can hear the helicopters

7300
02:41:31.231 --> 02:41:32.099
buzzing overhead here.

7301
02:41:32.099 --> 02:41:33.216
The rest of our recovery team

7302
02:41:33.216 --> 02:41:34.351
just shortly,

7303
02:41:34.351 --> 02:41:34.768
a few minutes

7304
02:41:34.768 --> 02:41:36.720
ago, landed nearby

7305
02:41:36.720 --> 02:41:39.723
and we speak on the other side

7306
02:41:39.806 --> 02:41:41.041
of where Zoe is right now.

7307
02:41:41.041 --> 02:41:41.975
There are team members

7308
02:41:41.975 --> 02:41:43.293
preparing the clean room

7309
02:41:43.293 --> 02:41:44.161
for the last leg

7310
02:41:44.161 --> 02:41:45.929
of the recovery operations.

7311
02:41:45.929 --> 02:41:47.364
Getting that SIRC,

7312
02:41:47.364 --> 02:41:48.749
the clean room,

7313
02:41:48.749 --> 02:41:50.167
and beginning the process

7314
02:41:50.167 --> 02:41:50.967
of extracting

7315
02:41:50.967 --> 02:41:51.451
that sample

7316
02:41:51.451 --> 02:42:04.214
canister from within.

7317
02:42:04.297 --> 02:42:05.132
So he continues to

7318
02:42:05.132 --> 02:42:06.216
assess the situation

7319
02:42:06.216 --> 02:42:08.018
here for safety.

7320
02:42:08.018 --> 02:42:09.152
She's beckoning for her team

7321
02:42:09.152 --> 02:42:09.536
to come over.

7322
02:42:09.536 --> 02:42:11.755
It seems like it is safe

7323
02:42:11.755 --> 02:42:12.656
for the recovery operations

7324
02:42:12.656 --> 02:42:13.657
to continue and two more team

7325
02:42:13.657 --> 02:42:15.459
members will be joining her

7326
02:42:15.459 --> 02:42:16.860
to assist with this next step

7327
02:42:16.860 --> 02:42:26.086
of the operation.

7328
02:42:26.153 --> 02:42:26.553
And here

7329
02:42:26.553 --> 02:42:27.504
come a few more team

7330
02:42:27.504 --> 02:42:29.673
members as well.

7331
02:42:29.673 --> 02:42:30.207
Approaching now

7332
02:42:30.207 --> 02:42:31.024
as Rich Weatherspoon

7333
02:42:31.024 --> 02:42:31.742
has been overseeing

7334
02:42:31.742 --> 02:42:32.759
a lot of the operations

7335
02:42:32.759 --> 02:42:35.028
out here at Dugway.

7336
02:42:35.095 --> 02:42:35.462
There's been a

7337
02:42:35.462 --> 02:42:36.113
number of rehearsals.

7338
02:42:36.113 --> 02:42:38.248
We have a ground view now,

7339
02:42:38.248 --> 02:42:40.283
so we cleared to take off her

7340
02:42:40.283 --> 02:42:41.585
gas mask.

7341
02:42:41.585 --> 02:42:43.170
Big smile, very excited

7342
02:42:43.170 --> 02:42:44.938
to get that SIRC back here.

7343
02:42:44.938 --> 02:42:46.323
It appears to be safe

7344
02:42:46.323 --> 02:42:46.890
to continue

7345
02:42:46.890 --> 02:42:47.457
the next step

7346
02:42:47.457 --> 02:42:48.158
of the operations,

7347
02:42:48.158 --> 02:42:48.809
getting that sample

7348
02:42:48.809 --> 02:42:49.409
return capsule

7349
02:42:49.409 --> 02:42:50.393
in the clean room.

7350
02:42:50.393 --> 02:42:51.094
She's putting away her

7351
02:42:51.094 --> 02:42:53.096
thermal protecting gloves.

7352
02:42:53.096 --> 02:42:53.847
The rest of the team

7353
02:42:53.847 --> 02:42:56.583
is there ready to begin,

7354
02:42:56.583 --> 02:42:57.317
actually.

7355
02:42:57.317 --> 02:42:58.969
Getting this seat unwrapped

7356
02:42:58.969 --> 02:43:00.921
and onto a small cart

7357
02:43:00.921 --> 02:43:01.905
that will be rolled over

7358
02:43:01.905 --> 02:43:06.009
in just a few seconds.

7359
02:43:06.076 --> 02:43:06.960
Just giving the team

7360
02:43:06.960 --> 02:43:08.178
an update on the status here.

7361
02:43:08.178 --> 02:43:10.163
The do these team huddles

7362
02:43:10.163 --> 02:43:10.914
just to make sure everyone

7363
02:43:10.914 --> 02:43:11.631
is on the same page

7364
02:43:11.631 --> 02:43:12.833
with the recovery operations.

7365
02:43:12.833 --> 02:43:13.800
It is

7366
02:43:13.800 --> 02:43:15.085
always simultaneous action.

7367
02:43:15.085 --> 02:43:16.136
Everything is

7368
02:43:16.136 --> 02:43:17.087
perfectly coordinated

7369
02:43:17.087 --> 02:43:19.389
like a ballet dance,

7370
02:43:19.456 --> 02:43:20.157
especially once

7371
02:43:20.157 --> 02:43:20.841
they get in the clean room.

7372
02:43:20.841 --> 02:43:21.808
You'll see

7373
02:43:21.808 --> 02:43:22.876
some of those operations.

7374
02:43:22.876 --> 02:43:24.861
They are very well

7375
02:43:24.861 --> 02:43:26.696
choreographed

7376
02:43:26.696 --> 02:43:27.180
and you can see

7377
02:43:27.180 --> 02:43:28.582
they are backing it up

7378
02:43:28.582 --> 02:43:29.416
just a little bit more

7379
02:43:29.416 --> 02:43:30.083
before they do this.

7380
02:43:30.083 --> 02:43:30.417
Next up,

7381
02:43:30.417 --> 02:43:31.818
the operation of actually

7382
02:43:31.818 --> 02:43:35.155
lifting it up onto the cart

7383
02:43:35.238 --> 02:43:35.806
that will then be

7384
02:43:35.806 --> 02:43:38.124
wheeled into the clean room.

7385
02:43:38.124 --> 02:43:38.992
Everything has really been

7386
02:43:38.992 --> 02:43:39.359
thought out

7387
02:43:39.359 --> 02:43:40.076
in advance, down

7388
02:43:40.076 --> 02:43:41.294
to the actual material

7389
02:43:41.294 --> 02:43:41.928
of the gloves

7390
02:43:41.928 --> 02:43:43.430
the team members are to use

7391
02:43:43.430 --> 02:43:43.880
and actually

7392
02:43:43.880 --> 02:43:45.232
handling the sample

7393
02:43:45.232 --> 02:43:46.650
return capsule.

7394
02:43:46.650 --> 02:43:49.019
Nylon actually 916.

7395
02:43:49.019 --> 02:43:49.619
It's a polymer

7396
02:43:49.619 --> 02:43:50.303
which is very similar

7397
02:43:50.303 --> 02:43:50.937
to a protein.

7398
02:43:50.937 --> 02:43:53.240
And so when nylon gets wet,

7399
02:43:53.240 --> 02:43:54.357
hydrolyzed is it breaks up

7400
02:43:54.357 --> 02:43:55.258
and releases a compound

7401
02:43:55.258 --> 02:43:55.976
called Epsilon

7402
02:43:55.976 --> 02:43:57.177
amino acid

7403
02:43:57.177 --> 02:43:57.978
that can be seen

7404
02:43:57.978 --> 02:43:59.629
in some meteorites.

7405
02:43:59.629 --> 02:44:00.780
So in order to distinguish

7406
02:44:00.780 --> 02:44:01.615
between the chemistry

7407
02:44:01.615 --> 02:44:02.716
that we see on Bennu

7408
02:44:02.716 --> 02:44:03.233
and the chemistry

7409
02:44:03.233 --> 02:44:04.050
that we see on nylon

7410
02:44:04.050 --> 02:44:04.584
degradation,

7411
02:44:04.584 --> 02:44:05.268
we need to make sure that

7412
02:44:05.268 --> 02:44:06.136
these sorts

7413
02:44:06.136 --> 02:44:07.037
of classes of compounds

7414
02:44:07.037 --> 02:44:09.239
are kept away from the sample.

7415
02:44:09.239 --> 02:44:09.739
So nylon

7416
02:44:09.739 --> 02:44:10.941
gloves are not to be used.

7417
02:44:10.941 --> 02:44:11.358
The gloves

7418
02:44:11.358 --> 02:44:12.175
you see the team members

7419
02:44:12.175 --> 02:44:12.509
wearing

7420
02:44:12.509 --> 02:44:14.211
are made out of Nitrile,

7421
02:44:14.211 --> 02:44:15.495
which is safe to be used.

7422
02:44:15.495 --> 02:44:15.929
You can see

7423
02:44:15.929 --> 02:44:17.247
two of our team members

7424
02:44:17.247 --> 02:44:18.231
carrying that sample return

7425
02:44:18.231 --> 02:44:20.267
capsule over to our cleanroom,

7426
02:44:20.267 --> 02:44:20.901
our camera crew,

7427
02:44:20.901 --> 02:44:22.035
following behind, documenting

7428
02:44:22.035 --> 02:44:23.570
this whole process.

7429
02:44:23.570 --> 02:44:24.471
And you can see that

7430
02:44:24.471 --> 02:44:25.639
cart in the background there.

7431
02:44:25.639 --> 02:44:27.507
This is to help the team wheel

7432
02:44:27.507 --> 02:44:30.844
the SC into the clean room.

7433
02:44:30.927 --> 02:44:31.878
That big metal door

7434
02:44:31.878 --> 02:44:32.579
there will be open

7435
02:44:32.579 --> 02:44:34.281
for just a few moments

7436
02:44:34.281 --> 02:44:34.998
and the team will wait

7437
02:44:34.998 --> 02:44:36.800
just for the dust to settle.

7438
02:44:36.800 --> 02:44:37.250
It'll kick up

7439
02:44:37.250 --> 02:44:38.635
a little bit of dust.

7440
02:44:38.635 --> 02:44:39.119
So they want to wait

7441
02:44:39.119 --> 02:44:39.769
for that to settle

7442
02:44:39.769 --> 02:44:41.504
and be visually clean

7443
02:44:41.504 --> 02:44:42.172
is the way the team

7444
02:44:42.172 --> 02:44:43.156
describes it

7445
02:44:43.156 --> 02:44:43.940
before they continue

7446
02:44:43.940 --> 02:44:46.309
to wheel that SLC and further

7447
02:44:46.309 --> 02:44:47.477
removing the TARP,

7448
02:44:47.477 --> 02:44:48.078
covering that

7449
02:44:48.078 --> 02:44:48.828
thermal blanketing

7450
02:44:48.828 --> 02:44:51.264
protective layer of the SC.

7451
02:44:51.264 --> 02:44:51.765
And you can see

7452
02:44:51.765 --> 02:44:52.732
on the other side of the door

7453
02:44:52.732 --> 02:44:53.400
the team members

7454
02:44:53.400 --> 02:44:54.084
for the Clean Room

7455
02:44:54.084 --> 02:44:55.585
team are waiting to acquire

7456
02:44:55.585 --> 02:44:57.170
that SC within

7457
02:44:57.170 --> 02:44:59.005
and one big lift off

7458
02:44:59.005 --> 02:44:59.606
for members

7459
02:44:59.606 --> 02:45:00.774
really digging down underneath.

7460
02:45:00.774 --> 02:45:02.325
They're

7461
02:45:02.325 --> 02:45:03.894
getting that SC up

7462
02:45:03.894 --> 02:45:05.178
onto that fixture,

7463
02:45:05.178 --> 02:45:06.196
a bit of a heavy lift

7464
02:45:06.196 --> 02:45:08.865
you can see and we have it

7465
02:45:08.865 --> 02:45:10.250
successfully on there.

7466
02:45:10.250 --> 02:45:11.534
There's some padding

7467
02:45:11.534 --> 02:45:12.686
protecting that as C as

7468
02:45:12.686 --> 02:45:13.703
it rests lightly.

7469
02:45:13.703 --> 02:45:14.871
You can see the the white

7470
02:45:14.871 --> 02:45:18.124
padding underneath the SIRC.

7471
02:45:18.208 --> 02:45:18.592
In just a

7472
02:45:18.592 --> 02:45:19.376
few moments teams

7473
02:45:19.376 --> 02:45:20.360
will await clearance

7474
02:45:20.360 --> 02:45:21.378
to open those gates,

7475
02:45:21.378 --> 02:45:22.495
open that door,

7476
02:45:22.495 --> 02:45:23.396
get the AC

7477
02:45:23.396 --> 02:45:25.348
inside the clean room,

7478
02:45:25.348 --> 02:45:25.882
getting in

7479
02:45:25.882 --> 02:45:27.350
on that nitrogen purge.

7480
02:45:27.350 --> 02:45:28.168
Just a few months later,

7481
02:45:28.168 --> 02:45:30.537
a knock on the door.

7482
02:45:30.537 --> 02:45:32.455
And there it is.

7483
02:45:32.455 --> 02:45:32.939
The clean room

7484
02:45:32.939 --> 02:45:34.341
door is opening up

7485
02:45:34.341 --> 02:45:35.208
our Johnson team

7486
02:45:35.208 --> 02:45:35.959
on the other side,

7487
02:45:35.959 --> 02:45:36.676
waiting for their

7488
02:45:36.676 --> 02:45:37.978
precious cargo to arrive.

7489
02:45:37.978 --> 02:45:38.578
And it is

7490
02:45:38.578 --> 02:45:41.331
wheeled into the door.

7491
02:45:41.331 --> 02:45:43.366
We have the ICRC inside

7492
02:45:43.366 --> 02:45:44.150
just sitting outside

7493
02:45:44.150 --> 02:45:44.567
the clean room.

7494
02:45:44.567 --> 02:45:44.834
You can see

7495
02:45:44.834 --> 02:45:45.719
at the left of your screen

7496
02:45:45.719 --> 02:45:46.620
with the NASA meatball

7497
02:45:46.620 --> 02:45:48.588
Neo Cyrus Rex insignia.

7498
02:45:48.588 --> 02:45:50.941
That is our portable clean room

7499
02:45:50.941 --> 02:45:51.858
that has been set up here

7500
02:45:51.858 --> 02:45:52.525
at Dugway

7501
02:45:52.525 --> 02:45:53.360
for the sole purpose

7502
02:45:53.360 --> 02:45:55.879
of this part of the operation.

7503
02:45:55.879 --> 02:45:57.330
This last step of the process

7504
02:45:57.330 --> 02:46:00.300
of getting the CRC opened up,

7505
02:46:00.383 --> 02:46:01.134
accessing the

7506
02:46:01.134 --> 02:46:02.902
sample canister within,

7507
02:46:02.902 --> 02:46:05.005
getting it on a nitrogen purge.

7508
02:46:05.005 --> 02:46:05.572
And then actually

7509
02:46:05.572 --> 02:46:06.740
tomorrow morning,

7510
02:46:06.740 --> 02:46:08.908
we'll have a C-17 cargo plane

7511
02:46:08.908 --> 02:46:10.727
flying this precious cargo down

7512
02:46:10.727 --> 02:46:12.746
to the Johnson Space Center

7513
02:46:12.746 --> 02:46:13.697
at the Johnson Space Center.

7514
02:46:13.697 --> 02:46:14.481
They've actually built

7515
02:46:14.481 --> 02:46:16.132
a custom clean room

7516
02:46:16.132 --> 02:46:17.367
for the Osiris-rex

7517
02:46:17.367 --> 02:46:18.835
Bennu samples

7518
02:46:18.835 --> 02:46:19.703
as I mentioned earlier,

7519
02:46:19.703 --> 02:46:20.303
they're going to be joining

7520
02:46:20.303 --> 02:46:21.237
a historic collection

7521
02:46:21.237 --> 02:46:22.288
that also includes samples

7522
02:46:22.288 --> 02:46:23.840
from the Apollo program

7523
02:46:23.840 --> 02:46:24.391
that were collected

7524
02:46:24.391 --> 02:46:26.126
at the surface of the moon,

7525
02:46:26.126 --> 02:46:26.910
as well as samples

7526
02:46:26.910 --> 02:46:28.044
from Stardust and Genesis,

7527
02:46:28.044 --> 02:46:29.095
both of which actually yet

7528
02:46:29.095 --> 02:46:30.030
landed here

7529
02:46:30.030 --> 02:46:30.797
in the Utah Test

7530
02:46:30.797 --> 02:46:31.314
and Training Range

7531
02:46:31.314 --> 02:46:32.966
a number of years ago,

7532
02:46:32.966 --> 02:46:33.616
and also

7533
02:46:33.616 --> 02:46:37.087
some Antarctic meteorites.

7534
02:46:37.170 --> 02:46:38.638
We might actually be opening up

7535
02:46:38.638 --> 02:46:40.974
the sample canister today

7536
02:46:40.974 --> 02:46:41.725
so that

7537
02:46:41.725 --> 02:46:42.409
we'll actually have to wait

7538
02:46:42.409 --> 02:46:42.976
just a few days.

7539
02:46:42.976 --> 02:46:44.944
So the team will have to

7540
02:46:45.028 --> 02:46:45.595
be patient

7541
02:46:45.595 --> 02:46:46.463
still as they wait

7542
02:46:46.463 --> 02:46:47.297
for the

7543
02:46:47.297 --> 02:46:48.148
official opening

7544
02:46:48.148 --> 02:46:48.865
of the sample canister.

7545
02:46:48.865 --> 02:46:50.300
But what you're seeing now,

7546
02:46:50.300 --> 02:46:51.117
a bunch of team members

7547
02:46:51.117 --> 02:46:52.369
will lift up the CRC

7548
02:46:52.369 --> 02:46:53.636
for our curation team

7549
02:46:53.636 --> 02:46:55.455
to reach underneath, scrape off

7550
02:46:55.455 --> 02:46:56.723
any kind of dirt

7551
02:46:56.723 --> 02:46:58.124
and place it back on

7552
02:46:58.124 --> 02:47:02.095
to our carrying fixture here.

7553
02:47:02.178 --> 02:47:03.179
All of these samples will

7554
02:47:03.179 --> 02:47:04.581
then be looked at as well.

7555
02:47:04.581 --> 02:47:04.964
Any kind of

7556
02:47:04.964 --> 02:47:05.749
environmental samples

7557
02:47:05.749 --> 02:47:06.499
that potentially came

7558
02:47:06.499 --> 02:47:08.184
in contact with our s RC

7559
02:47:08.184 --> 02:47:08.818
are of interest

7560
02:47:08.818 --> 02:47:09.569
to the Johnson team.

7561
02:47:09.569 --> 02:47:10.103
So all of that

7562
02:47:10.103 --> 02:47:12.322
will be documented for later

7563
02:47:12.322 --> 02:47:13.289
as the team continues

7564
02:47:13.289 --> 02:47:14.157
to shed the thermal

7565
02:47:14.157 --> 02:47:14.808
blanketing layers

7566
02:47:14.808 --> 02:47:16.309
that were protecting our CRC

7567
02:47:16.309 --> 02:47:17.761
on its journey.

7568
02:47:17.761 --> 02:47:18.328
On the long line,

7569
02:47:18.328 --> 02:47:18.645
you can see

7570
02:47:18.645 --> 02:47:19.345
a couple of team members

7571
02:47:19.345 --> 02:47:20.246
looking through the windows

7572
02:47:20.246 --> 02:47:21.681
of the clean room,

7573
02:47:21.681 --> 02:47:22.248
waiting for their

7574
02:47:22.248 --> 02:47:24.117
part of the process to kick off

7575
02:47:24.117 --> 02:47:27.704
as they get the CRC. We'll then

7576
02:47:27.787 --> 02:47:28.638
get a nice close up

7577
02:47:28.638 --> 02:47:29.606
view of the CRC here.

7578
02:47:29.606 --> 02:47:30.507
You can really see how

7579
02:47:30.507 --> 02:47:31.224
charred it is

7580
02:47:31.224 --> 02:47:32.008
from that entry

7581
02:47:32.008 --> 02:47:34.344
into Earth's atmosphere.

7582
02:47:34.344 --> 02:47:35.478
That is the back shield

7583
02:47:35.478 --> 02:47:36.029
that you're seeing

7584
02:47:36.029 --> 02:47:37.530
of the CRC in the top part

7585
02:47:37.530 --> 02:47:38.548
there has been sealed off.

7586
02:47:38.548 --> 02:47:38.998
That is actually

7587
02:47:38.998 --> 02:47:40.500
where the parachute

7588
02:47:40.500 --> 02:47:42.368
was deployed from.

7589
02:47:42.368 --> 02:47:43.703
See, there's that yellowish

7590
02:47:43.703 --> 02:47:44.421
orange seal

7591
02:47:44.421 --> 02:47:45.505
that was placed on top there

7592
02:47:45.505 --> 02:47:46.222
where the parachute

7593
02:47:46.222 --> 02:47:48.958
disconnected from the scene.

7594
02:47:48.958 --> 02:47:49.709
A brief team

7595
02:47:49.709 --> 02:47:50.126
huddle here

7596
02:47:50.126 --> 02:47:50.577
as they walk

7597
02:47:50.577 --> 02:47:51.177
through the next step

7598
02:47:51.177 --> 02:47:52.078
of the operation,

7599
02:47:52.078 --> 02:47:52.545
making sure

7600
02:47:52.545 --> 02:47:53.963
everyone is on the same page

7601
02:47:53.963 --> 02:47:54.764
here as they

7602
02:47:54.764 --> 02:47:56.416
will lift up the CRC

7603
02:47:56.416 --> 02:47:57.200
ever so slightly.

7604
02:47:57.200 --> 02:47:57.984
And the team has

7605
02:47:57.984 --> 02:47:58.735
these brush tools.

7606
02:47:58.735 --> 02:47:59.719
You can see one of our curators

7607
02:47:59.719 --> 02:48:01.071
carrying one in her right

7608
02:48:01.071 --> 02:48:02.338
hand there

7609
02:48:02.338 --> 02:48:03.506
to lift up the CRC scene.

7610
02:48:03.506 --> 02:48:04.307
She's going to scrape off

7611
02:48:04.307 --> 02:48:05.475
any dirt

7612
02:48:05.475 --> 02:48:07.010
from the Utah desert

7613
02:48:07.010 --> 02:48:07.944
that was on the bottom.

7614
02:48:07.944 --> 02:48:09.195
That will actually then

7615
02:48:09.195 --> 02:48:10.613
be certainly of interest

7616
02:48:10.613 --> 02:48:11.397
to the curation team

7617
02:48:11.397 --> 02:48:12.799
as they begin to analyze

7618
02:48:12.799 --> 02:48:13.616
the sample we got back.

7619
02:48:13.616 --> 02:48:14.100
You can see they're

7620
02:48:14.100 --> 02:48:16.052
giving it a little brush,

7621
02:48:16.136 --> 02:48:17.337
very charred surface

7622
02:48:17.337 --> 02:48:22.926
of that saucy,

7623
02:48:23.009 --> 02:48:24.077
that metallic portion.

7624
02:48:24.077 --> 02:48:25.695
Below is the heat shield,

7625
02:48:25.695 --> 02:48:27.647
which protected our sample

7626
02:48:27.647 --> 02:48:28.515
on its journey

7627
02:48:28.515 --> 02:48:29.516
through Earth's atmosphere

7628
02:48:29.516 --> 02:48:30.300
to the Utah Test

7629
02:48:30.300 --> 02:48:31.634
and training range.

7630
02:48:31.634 --> 02:48:33.419
You'll see a lift of that

7631
02:48:33.419 --> 02:48:34.370
S or C for team members

7632
02:48:34.370 --> 02:48:35.722
to access underneath,

7633
02:48:35.722 --> 02:48:36.506
checking for any dirt.

7634
02:48:36.506 --> 02:48:37.040
It doesn't look like

7635
02:48:37.040 --> 02:48:38.908
we really had any develop.

7636
02:48:38.908 --> 02:48:41.027
And this is actually

7637
02:48:41.027 --> 02:48:42.328
great because what happened

7638
02:48:42.328 --> 02:48:42.929
was since

7639
02:48:42.929 --> 02:48:45.165
the soil was so damp today,

7640
02:48:45.165 --> 02:48:45.615
we had a little

7641
02:48:45.615 --> 02:48:46.900
bit of moisture.

7642
02:48:46.900 --> 02:48:47.300
It was actually

7643
02:48:47.300 --> 02:48:48.434
a much softer landing.

7644
02:48:48.434 --> 02:48:49.435
So not as much dust

7645
02:48:49.435 --> 02:48:50.253
really caked on

7646
02:48:50.253 --> 02:48:51.805
that as our see it landed

7647
02:48:51.805 --> 02:48:53.389
perfectly on the surface

7648
02:48:53.389 --> 02:48:54.140
of the Utah desert.

7649
02:48:54.140 --> 02:48:54.824
They're going to place this

7650
02:48:54.824 --> 02:48:58.628
back down again.

7651
02:48:58.711 --> 02:48:59.329
It seems like

7652
02:48:59.329 --> 02:49:01.197
their operations are going

7653
02:49:01.197 --> 02:49:01.998
perfectly according

7654
02:49:01.998 --> 02:49:03.316
to plan here

7655
02:49:03.316 --> 02:49:04.200
to do another lift

7656
02:49:04.200 --> 02:49:04.734
on the other side

7657
02:49:04.734 --> 02:49:05.518
just so they can access

7658
02:49:05.518 --> 02:49:06.169
where the team members

7659
02:49:06.169 --> 02:49:08.104
were previously holding.

7660
02:49:08.188 --> 02:49:09.439
And then if all looks

7661
02:49:09.439 --> 02:49:11.274
good, they will clear this

7662
02:49:11.274 --> 02:49:11.574
to be

7663
02:49:11.574 --> 02:49:15.512
wheeled into the clean room

7664
02:49:15.595 --> 02:49:16.696
and really just backing up

7665
02:49:16.696 --> 02:49:17.180
and thinking about

7666
02:49:17.180 --> 02:49:18.498
this entire journey

7667
02:49:18.498 --> 02:49:18.832
from where

7668
02:49:18.832 --> 02:49:20.900
we started this morning,

7669
02:49:20.900 --> 02:49:21.568
right before

7670
02:49:21.568 --> 02:49:22.402
maybe about 4 hours

7671
02:49:22.402 --> 02:49:23.186
before we kicked off

7672
02:49:23.186 --> 02:49:23.753
our broadcast,

7673
02:49:23.753 --> 02:49:24.420
the team at Lockheed

7674
02:49:24.420 --> 02:49:25.889
Martin gave the go to release

7675
02:49:25.889 --> 02:49:27.740
the CRC that you see right here

7676
02:49:27.740 --> 02:49:29.209
from the main Osiris-rex

7677
02:49:29.209 --> 02:49:31.344
spacecraft, detach

7678
02:49:31.344 --> 02:49:32.212
from that spacecraft

7679
02:49:32.212 --> 02:49:34.998
on its four hour solo journey.

7680
02:49:34.998 --> 02:49:35.415
There's nothing

7681
02:49:35.415 --> 02:49:36.166
we could do at that point.

7682
02:49:36.166 --> 02:49:37.066
As it entered into

7683
02:49:37.066 --> 02:49:38.451
Earth's atmosphere,

7684
02:49:38.451 --> 02:49:39.953
began the punishing entry,

7685
02:49:39.953 --> 02:49:41.638
descent and landing,

7686
02:49:41.638 --> 02:49:43.139
which took us to the Utah Test

7687
02:49:43.139 --> 02:49:44.240
and Training Range.

7688
02:49:44.240 --> 02:49:45.225
Out in the field, teams

7689
02:49:45.225 --> 02:49:47.760
worked to recover the sample.

7690
02:49:47.760 --> 02:49:48.745
They actually continued

7691
02:49:48.745 --> 02:49:50.213
to take samples, environmental

7692
02:49:50.213 --> 02:49:51.047
and air samples

7693
02:49:51.047 --> 02:49:51.865
of the region around

7694
02:49:51.865 --> 02:49:53.416
where we landed.

7695
02:49:53.416 --> 02:49:54.984
We successfully bagged

7696
02:49:54.984 --> 02:49:55.885
the sample return

7697
02:49:55.885 --> 02:49:57.804
capsule in thermal blanketing

7698
02:49:57.804 --> 02:49:58.738
that you see right there

7699
02:49:58.738 --> 02:49:59.706
beneath the surface.

7700
02:49:59.706 --> 02:50:00.440
See that plastic

7701
02:50:00.440 --> 02:50:02.559
looking material

7702
02:50:02.625 --> 02:50:03.376
We transported

7703
02:50:03.376 --> 02:50:04.611
it successfully

7704
02:50:04.611 --> 02:50:06.412
with our longline operations.

7705
02:50:06.412 --> 02:50:07.530
Big thanks to our helicopter

7706
02:50:07.530 --> 02:50:08.815
crew today for helping us

7707
02:50:08.815 --> 02:50:09.682
get the sample return

7708
02:50:09.682 --> 02:50:10.667
capsule to the clean room.

7709
02:50:10.667 --> 02:50:11.384
A couple more lists

7710
02:50:11.384 --> 02:50:12.235
here, you see,

7711
02:50:12.235 --> 02:50:12.685
and they're going

7712
02:50:12.685 --> 02:50:13.219
to remove that

7713
02:50:13.219 --> 02:50:13.887
last layer

7714
02:50:13.887 --> 02:50:14.787
of thermal blanketing,

7715
02:50:14.787 --> 02:50:17.156
placing the SLC on its own

7716
02:50:17.156 --> 02:50:18.358
without any layering

7717
02:50:18.358 --> 02:50:21.628
onto our carrying fixture.

7718
02:50:21.711 --> 02:50:22.829
You can see just how charged up

7719
02:50:22.829 --> 02:50:24.113
those gloves look.

7720
02:50:24.113 --> 02:50:25.064
A lot of that char

7721
02:50:25.064 --> 02:50:26.783
from the heat shield

7722
02:50:26.783 --> 02:50:27.800
getting off on their gloves.

7723
02:50:27.800 --> 02:50:29.419
You can just see how dark it is

7724
02:50:29.419 --> 02:50:30.270
really heating up.

7725
02:50:30.270 --> 02:50:30.620
Initially

7726
02:50:30.620 --> 02:50:31.037
when we hit the

7727
02:50:31.037 --> 02:50:32.088
earth's atmosphere,

7728
02:50:32.088 --> 02:50:32.689
we were at over

7729
02:50:32.689 --> 02:50:34.857
5000 degrees Fahrenheit.

7730
02:50:34.857 --> 02:50:35.692
That's about half as hot

7731
02:50:35.692 --> 02:50:37.310
as the surface of the sun,

7732
02:50:37.310 --> 02:50:39.412
quite warm.

7733
02:50:39.412 --> 02:50:40.947
It's cooled off substantially.

7734
02:50:40.947 --> 02:50:42.465
So obviously, as it's

7735
02:50:42.465 --> 02:50:43.216
been transported

7736
02:50:43.216 --> 02:50:44.217
throughout the day here

7737
02:50:44.217 --> 02:50:45.268
and is now

7738
02:50:45.268 --> 02:50:46.035
just moments away

7739
02:50:46.035 --> 02:50:46.936
from getting transported

7740
02:50:46.936 --> 02:50:49.005
into our NASA clean room

7741
02:50:49.005 --> 02:50:49.789
that you can see on the

7742
02:50:49.789 --> 02:50:54.394
right of your screen.

7743
02:50:54.477 --> 02:50:55.762
Team members are all gowned up.

7744
02:50:55.762 --> 02:50:56.930
And inside that clean room

7745
02:50:56.930 --> 02:50:59.782
there is a fixture dead center

7746
02:50:59.782 --> 02:51:00.199
that this

7747
02:51:00.199 --> 02:51:01.351
SIRC will be placed on

7748
02:51:01.351 --> 02:51:02.118
that will allow the team

7749
02:51:02.118 --> 02:51:03.803
to be able to gather around

7750
02:51:03.803 --> 02:51:05.655
and begin to open up

7751
02:51:05.655 --> 02:51:06.739
this nesting doll

7752
02:51:06.739 --> 02:51:08.241
protective layer to SIRC

7753
02:51:08.241 --> 02:51:09.626
to access our precious cargo.

7754
02:51:09.626 --> 02:51:12.629
That sample canister within.

7755
02:51:12.829 --> 02:51:13.096
Again,

7756
02:51:13.096 --> 02:51:13.646
they want to make sure

7757
02:51:13.646 --> 02:51:16.049
that everything is clear.

7758
02:51:16.049 --> 02:51:17.567
Before they wheeled us in.

7759
02:51:17.567 --> 02:51:20.520
Everyone's ready to go.

7760
02:51:20.520 --> 02:51:22.288
Everything looks good.

7761
02:51:22.288 --> 02:51:22.855
Before that,

7762
02:51:22.855 --> 02:51:23.806
we'll that sample

7763
02:51:23.806 --> 02:51:24.540
return capsule

7764
02:51:24.540 --> 02:51:32.665
into our clean room.

7765
02:51:32.749 --> 02:51:34.100
Just truly an incredible day.

7766
02:51:34.100 --> 02:51:35.335
And the science

7767
02:51:35.335 --> 02:51:36.085
that's within these

7768
02:51:36.085 --> 02:51:38.488
samples is truly hard to fathom

7769
02:51:38.488 --> 02:51:38.871
right now,

7770
02:51:38.871 --> 02:51:40.039
just how influential

7771
02:51:40.039 --> 02:51:42.258
the science is going to be.

7772
02:51:42.258 --> 02:51:42.709
Keep in mind,

7773
02:51:42.709 --> 02:51:43.226
these samples

7774
02:51:43.226 --> 02:51:44.394
are from the origins

7775
02:51:44.394 --> 02:51:45.595
of the solar system.

7776
02:51:45.595 --> 02:51:47.764
Billions of years ago.

7777
02:51:47.847 --> 02:51:48.865
They hold the clues to how

7778
02:51:48.865 --> 02:51:49.699
everything around us

7779
02:51:49.699 --> 02:51:51.000
came to be.

7780
02:51:51.000 --> 02:51:51.951
And in just a few short

7781
02:51:51.951 --> 02:51:52.552
weeks, scientists

7782
02:51:52.552 --> 02:51:53.369
will begin

7783
02:51:53.369 --> 02:51:55.588
to analyze these samples

7784
02:51:55.588 --> 02:51:57.857
and stow away even more sample

7785
02:51:57.857 --> 02:52:00.076
for generations to come.

7786
02:52:00.076 --> 02:52:00.827
Future scientists

7787
02:52:00.827 --> 02:52:01.527
will be able to open

7788
02:52:01.527 --> 02:52:02.662
these samples

7789
02:52:02.662 --> 02:52:03.946
and continue

7790
02:52:03.946 --> 02:52:05.148
the journey of service.

7791
02:52:05.148 --> 02:52:07.950
Rex

7792
02:52:07.950 --> 02:52:08.634
As we speak,

7793
02:52:08.634 --> 02:52:10.069
this incredible mission

7794
02:52:10.069 --> 02:52:11.154
still has not come to an end.

7795
02:52:11.154 --> 02:52:11.954
Our spacecraft,

7796
02:52:11.954 --> 02:52:13.139
our intrepid robotic

7797
02:52:13.139 --> 02:52:14.807
explorer or Cyrus Rex,

7798
02:52:14.807 --> 02:52:17.477
is now dubbed Osiris Apex,

7799
02:52:17.477 --> 02:52:19.679
heading to the asteroid Apophis

7800
02:52:19.679 --> 02:52:21.564
in the year 2029.

7801
02:52:21.564 --> 02:52:22.048
Obviously,

7802
02:52:22.048 --> 02:52:22.849
we do not have

7803
02:52:22.849 --> 02:52:24.150
that sample return capsule

7804
02:52:24.150 --> 02:52:26.686
or the sample Tagsam,

7805
02:52:26.686 --> 02:52:27.437
which actually helped us

7806
02:52:27.437 --> 02:52:28.554
collect that air

7807
02:52:28.554 --> 02:52:29.272
filter looking thing

7808
02:52:29.272 --> 02:52:29.655
that helped us

7809
02:52:29.655 --> 02:52:30.707
collect these samples

7810
02:52:30.707 --> 02:52:31.407
at the surface of it

7811
02:52:31.407 --> 02:52:32.241
that is no longer attached

7812
02:52:32.241 --> 02:52:32.959
because it's sitting

7813
02:52:32.959 --> 02:52:34.727
right here in our clean room.

7814
02:52:34.727 --> 02:52:36.262
But the mission will continue.

7815
02:52:36.262 --> 02:52:37.680
The team will map the asteroid

7816
02:52:37.680 --> 02:52:38.748
Apophis in great detail,

7817
02:52:38.748 --> 02:52:39.465
similar to what we did

7818
02:52:39.465 --> 02:52:40.700
with Bennu

7819
02:52:40.700 --> 02:52:41.784
descending down to the surface,

7820
02:52:41.784 --> 02:52:42.618
firing its thrusters,

7821
02:52:42.618 --> 02:52:44.187
kicking up a sample,

7822
02:52:44.187 --> 02:52:45.204
and as we speak,

7823
02:52:45.204 --> 02:52:46.439
the sample that it got from

7824
02:52:46.439 --> 02:52:47.306
Bennu back

7825
02:52:47.306 --> 02:52:49.425
in 2020 is just moments away

7826
02:52:49.425 --> 02:52:50.176
from being wheeled

7827
02:52:50.176 --> 02:52:50.777
into the cleanroom

7828
02:52:50.777 --> 02:52:51.227
the team doing

7829
02:52:51.227 --> 02:52:51.794
one more sweep,

7830
02:52:51.794 --> 02:52:53.179
cleaning off those wheels

7831
02:52:53.179 --> 02:52:54.047
that came in contact with

7832
02:52:54.047 --> 02:52:56.099
the pavement outside

7833
02:52:56.182 --> 02:52:57.417
just before getting this

7834
02:52:57.417 --> 02:52:59.185
saucy wheeled over

7835
02:52:59.185 --> 02:53:03.639
into the clean room.

7836
02:53:03.706 --> 02:53:04.474
Just truly

7837
02:53:04.474 --> 02:53:05.758
an incredible journey

7838
02:53:05.758 --> 02:53:06.893
of this mission.

7839
02:53:06.893 --> 02:53:08.361
3.86 billion miles

7840
02:53:08.361 --> 02:53:09.178
total to bennu

7841
02:53:09.178 --> 02:53:10.847
and back with this sample.

7842
02:53:10.847 --> 02:53:11.364
And now it's

7843
02:53:11.364 --> 02:53:12.498
just a few feet away

7844
02:53:12.498 --> 02:53:16.269
from our clean room.

7845
02:53:16.335 --> 02:53:17.153
You can see on your screen

7846
02:53:17.153 --> 02:53:18.354
to some of the gas coverings,

7847
02:53:18.354 --> 02:53:19.372
to those vent covers

7848
02:53:19.372 --> 02:53:19.972
that were placed

7849
02:53:19.972 --> 02:53:21.557
out in the field

7850
02:53:21.557 --> 02:53:22.225
that prevented

7851
02:53:22.225 --> 02:53:23.242
any kind of contaminants

7852
02:53:23.242 --> 02:53:25.228
from getting into the CRC.

7853
02:53:25.228 --> 02:53:26.062
And as I mentioned before,

7854
02:53:26.062 --> 02:53:27.330
that stasis and nesting,

7855
02:53:27.330 --> 02:53:28.581
all of sorts, very protective.

7856
02:53:28.581 --> 02:53:29.599
And within

7857
02:53:29.599 --> 02:53:30.500
there is a complex

7858
02:53:30.500 --> 02:53:32.001
network of tubing, labyrinth

7859
02:53:32.001 --> 02:53:32.869
like tubing,

7860
02:53:32.869 --> 02:53:33.586
preventing any

7861
02:53:33.586 --> 02:53:34.253
kind of contaminants

7862
02:53:34.253 --> 02:53:36.239
from getting into the sample.

7863
02:53:36.239 --> 02:53:37.890
But the team still wants to get

7864
02:53:37.890 --> 02:53:38.608
that sample canister

7865
02:53:38.608 --> 02:53:39.776
on a nitrogen purge

7866
02:53:39.776 --> 02:53:40.710
that will ensure

7867
02:53:40.710 --> 02:53:42.628
that it will stay

7868
02:53:42.628 --> 02:53:44.180
clean, pristine

7869
02:53:44.180 --> 02:53:45.415
from any possible atmosphere

7870
02:53:45.415 --> 02:53:45.982
contamination.

7871
02:53:45.982 --> 02:53:46.916
It's going to stay

7872
02:53:46.916 --> 02:53:48.351
on that nitrogen purge

7873
02:53:48.351 --> 02:53:49.402
all the way through its trip

7874
02:53:49.402 --> 02:53:50.870
down to Johnson Space Center,

7875
02:53:50.870 --> 02:53:51.704
where ultimately

7876
02:53:51.704 --> 02:53:52.789
it will be opened

7877
02:53:52.789 --> 02:53:54.740
at their curation facility.

7878
02:53:54.740 --> 02:53:55.374
You can see in the bottom

7879
02:53:55.374 --> 02:53:56.509
left of your screen are team

7880
02:53:56.509 --> 02:53:57.677
members inside the clean room

7881
02:53:57.677 --> 02:53:58.544
all gowned up.

7882
02:53:58.544 --> 02:53:59.846
And right at the bottom there,

7883
02:53:59.846 --> 02:54:01.848
that kind of gold ish bronze

7884
02:54:01.848 --> 02:54:03.199
looking fixture

7885
02:54:03.199 --> 02:54:04.167
is where this SRC

7886
02:54:04.167 --> 02:54:05.301
is going to be placed for the

7887
02:54:05.301 --> 02:54:08.488
next step of the operations.

7888
02:54:08.571 --> 02:54:09.238
This,

7889
02:54:09.238 --> 02:54:09.772
as everything

7890
02:54:09.772 --> 02:54:10.256
has been,

7891
02:54:10.256 --> 02:54:12.859
is a very careful process,

7892
02:54:12.859 --> 02:54:14.243
choreographed

7893
02:54:14.243 --> 02:54:16.279
every step of the way.

7894
02:54:16.279 --> 02:54:17.180
Team wants to ensure

7895
02:54:17.180 --> 02:54:19.048
that everything is cleared

7896
02:54:19.048 --> 02:54:21.684
before they wheeled that in.

7897
02:54:21.684 --> 02:54:22.735
We are just moments away

7898
02:54:22.735 --> 02:54:24.053
from that will

7899
02:54:24.053 --> 02:54:24.921
of the CRC

7900
02:54:24.921 --> 02:54:28.891
into our portable clean room.

7901
02:54:28.975 --> 02:54:29.926
You can see in the background

7902
02:54:29.926 --> 02:54:30.593
in the picture,

7903
02:54:30.593 --> 02:54:31.727
Jason Dworkin observing.

7904
02:54:31.727 --> 02:54:32.945
He's one of our astrobiologist

7905
02:54:32.945 --> 02:54:34.230
from NASA Goddard.

7906
02:54:34.230 --> 02:54:34.914
He will be looking

7907
02:54:34.914 --> 02:54:35.598
at these samples

7908
02:54:35.598 --> 02:54:36.299
along with

7909
02:54:36.299 --> 02:54:37.166
hundreds of scientists

7910
02:54:37.166 --> 02:54:38.417
from around the world,

7911
02:54:38.417 --> 02:54:39.685
helping us better understand

7912
02:54:39.685 --> 02:54:40.319
the origins

7913
02:54:40.319 --> 02:54:51.781
of our solar system.

7914
02:54:51.864 --> 02:54:53.633
The anticipation builds

7915
02:54:53.633 --> 02:54:57.069
for this final moment

7916
02:54:57.136 --> 02:54:59.088
a massive sigh of relief

7917
02:54:59.088 --> 02:54:59.939
at this part of the way,

7918
02:54:59.939 --> 02:55:00.706
because we have

7919
02:55:00.706 --> 02:55:02.158
that uncertainty now

7920
02:55:02.158 --> 02:55:03.142
not only on the ground,

7921
02:55:03.142 --> 02:55:04.193
but just

7922
02:55:04.193 --> 02:55:05.328
inches away

7923
02:55:05.328 --> 02:55:06.078
from our clean room.

7924
02:55:06.078 --> 02:55:07.647
The team looking inside there

7925
02:55:07.647 --> 02:55:08.147
just to ensure

7926
02:55:08.147 --> 02:55:10.833
everything is good, to go

7927
02:55:10.917 --> 02:55:12.201
get a great shot of the NASA

7928
02:55:12.201 --> 02:55:13.369
meatball and the Service

7929
02:55:13.369 --> 02:55:14.687
Rex logo

7930
02:55:14.687 --> 02:55:29.018
on the doors of the clean room,

7931
02:55:29.085 --> 02:55:29.719
the operations

7932
02:55:29.719 --> 02:55:30.720
at Johnson Space Center.

7933
02:55:30.720 --> 02:55:31.737
Once this sample canister

7934
02:55:31.737 --> 02:55:32.455
is transported,

7935
02:55:32.455 --> 02:55:34.740
there will be truly a sight

7936
02:55:34.740 --> 02:55:35.458
to behold as well.

7937
02:55:35.458 --> 02:55:36.225
In just a few days,

7938
02:55:36.225 --> 02:55:36.676
we're actually going

7939
02:55:36.676 --> 02:55:37.226
to get

7940
02:55:37.226 --> 02:55:38.327
our first science results

7941
02:55:38.327 --> 02:55:42.265
from the sample within.

7942
02:55:42.348 --> 02:55:42.982
And as I mentioned,

7943
02:55:42.982 --> 02:55:45.201
they built a custom clean room

7944
02:55:45.201 --> 02:55:46.319
at the Johnson Space Center

7945
02:55:46.319 --> 02:55:48.354
for this very purpose.

7946
02:55:48.354 --> 02:55:49.789
The team that you see on screen

7947
02:55:49.789 --> 02:55:50.756
here has been rehearsing

7948
02:55:50.756 --> 02:55:51.807
at that clean room,

7949
02:55:51.807 --> 02:55:53.025
preparing for the big event

7950
02:55:53.025 --> 02:55:54.777
of actually getting that sample

7951
02:55:54.777 --> 02:55:55.978
opened up

7952
02:55:55.978 --> 02:55:57.046
and beginning to parse it out

7953
02:55:57.046 --> 02:55:57.830
and ship it

7954
02:55:57.830 --> 02:55:58.848
to labs around the world,

7955
02:55:58.848 --> 02:55:59.665
stowing a lot of it

7956
02:55:59.665 --> 02:56:01.617
for future generations.

7957
02:56:01.617 --> 02:56:02.301
Truly

7958
02:56:02.301 --> 02:56:03.319
an incredible amount of science

7959
02:56:03.319 --> 02:56:04.253
that we can't even begin

7960
02:56:04.253 --> 02:56:05.388
to imagine

7961
02:56:05.388 --> 02:56:07.657
is trapped within those rocks.

7962
02:56:07.740 --> 02:56:07.974
And I

7963
02:56:07.974 --> 02:56:08.574
personally am very

7964
02:56:08.574 --> 02:56:09.592
excited to see

7965
02:56:09.592 --> 02:56:10.676
exactly how much sample

7966
02:56:10.676 --> 02:56:11.093
we got back.

7967
02:56:11.093 --> 02:56:11.744
The original mission

7968
02:56:11.744 --> 02:56:14.330
requirement was a mere 60 grams

7969
02:56:14.330 --> 02:56:16.465
in an explosive tag event,

7970
02:56:16.465 --> 02:56:18.301
an asteroid Bennu back in 2020,

7971
02:56:18.301 --> 02:56:19.635
excavating over six

7972
02:56:19.635 --> 02:56:20.536
tons of material

7973
02:56:20.536 --> 02:56:22.455
when we contacted the surface

7974
02:56:22.455 --> 02:56:23.956
and stowed potentially

7975
02:56:23.956 --> 02:56:25.875
250 grams of sample

7976
02:56:25.875 --> 02:56:27.526
within that tagsam device.

7977
02:56:27.526 --> 02:56:28.277
That air filter

7978
02:56:28.277 --> 02:56:29.028
that Jim was just shown

7979
02:56:29.028 --> 02:56:40.389
a few moments ago.

7980
02:56:40.456 --> 02:56:41.574
There are also no radio

7981
02:56:41.574 --> 02:56:42.441
frequency signals

7982
02:56:42.441 --> 02:56:43.576
allowed inside the building

7983
02:56:43.576 --> 02:56:44.961
that you see here to

7984
02:56:44.961 --> 02:56:45.328
the building

7985
02:56:45.328 --> 02:56:46.529
is on ordnance protocol.

7986
02:56:46.529 --> 02:56:47.096
They want to make sure

7987
02:56:47.096 --> 02:56:47.997
that everyone is safe

7988
02:56:47.997 --> 02:56:49.065
here, that there

7989
02:56:49.065 --> 02:56:50.816
could still be active

7990
02:56:50.816 --> 02:56:52.702
ordnances from the parachute

7991
02:56:52.702 --> 02:56:53.903
deployment with the Service

7992
02:56:53.903 --> 02:56:54.870
Rex spacecraft.

7993
02:56:54.870 --> 02:56:56.055
We had a mortar fire

7994
02:56:56.055 --> 02:56:57.740
to release that parachute,

7995
02:56:57.740 --> 02:56:58.674
that orange parachute

7996
02:56:58.674 --> 02:56:59.842
that took us to the last stage

7997
02:56:59.842 --> 02:57:01.611
of our journey to the surface

7998
02:57:01.611 --> 02:57:02.144
of the Utah Test

7999
02:57:02.144 --> 02:57:05.698
entering range,

8000
02:57:05.781 --> 02:57:07.216
crewmembers pacing around

8001
02:57:07.216 --> 02:57:08.901
inside that clean room,

8002
02:57:08.901 --> 02:57:21.580
waiting to get that SRT inside.

8003
02:57:21.647 --> 02:57:22.198
And so when they

8004
02:57:22.198 --> 02:57:23.966
actually open up the SIRC,

8005
02:57:23.966 --> 02:57:25.551
removing that back shell,

8006
02:57:25.551 --> 02:57:27.136
the sample canister,

8007
02:57:27.136 --> 02:57:27.887
they will attach

8008
02:57:27.887 --> 02:57:29.271
a couple tripod

8009
02:57:29.271 --> 02:57:30.172
looking legs to it,

8010
02:57:30.172 --> 02:57:31.590
these small legs

8011
02:57:31.590 --> 02:57:32.174
that will allow them

8012
02:57:32.174 --> 02:57:33.626
to flip it over

8013
02:57:33.626 --> 02:57:34.744
onto a table nearby.

8014
02:57:34.744 --> 02:57:35.845
They can see that metal table

8015
02:57:35.845 --> 02:57:38.848
in the back of the clean room.

8016
02:57:38.864 --> 02:57:39.498
And at that point

8017
02:57:39.498 --> 02:57:40.583
they're going to

8018
02:57:40.583 --> 02:57:41.667
put it on the nitrogen purge.

8019
02:57:41.667 --> 02:57:42.318
You can see they're moving

8020
02:57:42.318 --> 02:57:42.835
that fixture

8021
02:57:42.835 --> 02:57:44.420
a little bit closer to the door

8022
02:57:44.420 --> 02:57:45.171
because they're just going

8023
02:57:45.171 --> 02:57:45.621
to lift

8024
02:57:45.621 --> 02:57:46.639
that SIRC off

8025
02:57:46.639 --> 02:57:49.191
of the carrying fixture

8026
02:57:49.191 --> 02:57:51.227
and place it on to

8027
02:57:51.227 --> 02:57:52.311
the clearance fixture.

8028
02:57:52.311 --> 02:57:53.362
It's a

8029
02:57:53.362 --> 02:57:54.447
quick little transfer,

8030
02:57:54.447 --> 02:57:55.548
very quick

8031
02:57:55.548 --> 02:57:56.632
opening of the doors

8032
02:57:56.632 --> 02:57:57.533
in just a second here,

8033
02:57:57.533 --> 02:57:58.434
you can see your team members

8034
02:57:58.434 --> 02:57:59.035
moving that

8035
02:57:59.035 --> 02:58:00.119
a little bit closer.

8036
02:58:00.119 --> 02:58:02.088
The doors are now open.

8037
02:58:02.088 --> 02:58:02.722
We're entering

8038
02:58:02.722 --> 02:58:04.407
into the clean room

8039
02:58:04.407 --> 02:58:05.391
and that SASE is about

8040
02:58:05.391 --> 02:58:07.259
to be moved off

8041
02:58:07.259 --> 02:58:10.029
on to our clean room fixture,

8042
02:58:10.096 --> 02:58:11.147
our clean room team members

8043
02:58:11.147 --> 02:58:12.915
carrying that sase in

8044
02:58:12.915 --> 02:58:13.582
and these doors

8045
02:58:13.582 --> 02:58:15.134
will be slammed shut

8046
02:58:15.134 --> 02:58:16.018
just as soon as we can

8047
02:58:16.018 --> 02:58:17.153
get that assorted fixture out.

8048
02:58:17.153 --> 02:58:18.621
And there we go.

8049
02:58:18.621 --> 02:58:19.672
It is in the clean room.

8050
02:58:19.672 --> 02:58:21.207
The SIRC

8051
02:58:21.207 --> 02:58:23.476
from the desert of Utah

8052
02:58:23.476 --> 02:58:24.226
earlier this morning

8053
02:58:24.226 --> 02:58:25.194
arriving has been

8054
02:58:25.194 --> 02:58:26.812
successfully delivered

8055
02:58:26.812 --> 02:58:27.863
to the Dugway Portable

8056
02:58:27.863 --> 02:58:30.666
Clean Room.

8057
02:58:30.666 --> 02:58:32.168
You can just see just how

8058
02:58:32.168 --> 02:58:33.769
charred that SIRC

8059
02:58:33.769 --> 02:58:34.487
back, shell

8060
02:58:34.487 --> 02:58:35.938
and heat shield are.

8061
02:58:35.938 --> 02:58:37.306
A great close up angle here.

8062
02:58:37.306 --> 02:58:40.309
You can really see

8063
02:58:40.426 --> 02:58:41.877
our prized sample

8064
02:58:41.877 --> 02:58:45.131
return capsule at long last

8065
02:58:45.197 --> 02:58:49.952
in the clean room.

8066
02:58:50.035 --> 02:58:50.686
It's hard to fathom

8067
02:58:50.686 --> 02:58:51.053
that just

8068
02:58:51.053 --> 02:58:51.954
a couple of years ago,

8069
02:58:51.954 --> 02:58:53.339
this sample return capsule

8070
02:58:53.339 --> 02:58:54.957
that you see here was over

8071
02:58:54.957 --> 02:58:56.392
200 million miles away from us

8072
02:58:56.392 --> 02:58:56.992
on the other side

8073
02:58:56.992 --> 02:58:59.495
of the solar system,

8074
02:58:59.578 --> 02:59:01.347
the Research Rex spacecraft

8075
02:59:01.347 --> 02:59:02.481
worked to quickly

8076
02:59:02.481 --> 02:59:03.249
stow the sample

8077
02:59:03.249 --> 02:59:04.433
it got from the asteroid BENNU

8078
02:59:04.433 --> 02:59:06.285
at a sample site Nightingale

8079
02:59:06.285 --> 02:59:07.286
into this sample

8080
02:59:07.286 --> 02:59:07.853
return capsule.

8081
02:59:07.853 --> 02:59:10.156
We slam that lid, shut

8082
02:59:10.156 --> 02:59:11.207
it, prepared it for the long

8083
02:59:11.207 --> 02:59:11.724
journey back.

8084
02:59:11.724 --> 02:59:12.775
It took 1.2

8085
02:59:12.775 --> 02:59:13.793
billion miles

8086
02:59:13.793 --> 02:59:15.144
to get from the asteroid Bennu

8087
02:59:15.144 --> 02:59:16.679
after sample collection

8088
02:59:16.679 --> 02:59:19.398
to Earth's atmosphere,

8089
02:59:19.398 --> 02:59:20.850
we entered in 82 miles off

8090
02:59:20.850 --> 02:59:22.401
the surface of San Francisco,

8091
02:59:22.401 --> 02:59:23.452
went through the punishing

8092
02:59:23.452 --> 02:59:25.037
entry, descent and landing,

8093
02:59:25.037 --> 02:59:26.489
landed in the desert,

8094
02:59:26.489 --> 02:59:27.890
and now here we have it,

8095
02:59:27.890 --> 02:59:29.542
the sample return capsule

8096
02:59:29.542 --> 02:59:30.659
in our clean room.

8097
02:59:30.659 --> 02:59:31.577
The team is going to move this

8098
02:59:31.577 --> 02:59:32.027
a little bit

8099
02:59:32.027 --> 02:59:33.262
over to the center of the room

8100
02:59:33.262 --> 02:59:35.131
so they can all gather around

8101
02:59:35.131 --> 02:59:36.415
and begin the process

8102
02:59:36.415 --> 02:59:38.300
of removing that back shell

8103
02:59:38.300 --> 02:59:39.268
and then ultimately getting

8104
02:59:39.268 --> 02:59:48.928
the heat shield off as well.

8105
02:59:49.011 --> 02:59:49.762
So what's going to

8106
02:59:49.762 --> 02:59:51.330
come up next here

8107
02:59:51.330 --> 02:59:52.114
is that back

8108
02:59:52.114 --> 02:59:53.482
show that you see there,

8109
02:59:53.482 --> 02:59:55.701
the team will remove, then

8110
02:59:55.701 --> 02:59:56.969
get the sample canister

8111
02:59:56.969 --> 02:59:58.821
that is within it to complex

8112
02:59:58.821 --> 02:59:59.805
network of tubing

8113
02:59:59.805 --> 03:00:00.890
to get to that sample canister.

8114
03:00:00.890 --> 03:00:01.490
And this is also,

8115
03:00:01.490 --> 03:00:02.958
like I mentioned, a nesting

8116
03:00:02.958 --> 03:00:03.559
doll of sorts

8117
03:00:03.559 --> 03:00:05.628
protecting our sample within.

8118
03:00:05.628 --> 03:00:05.928
They're going

8119
03:00:05.928 --> 03:00:06.712
to get that sample

8120
03:00:06.712 --> 03:00:08.297
canister out.

8121
03:00:08.297 --> 03:00:08.864
They're going to get it

8122
03:00:08.864 --> 03:00:09.899
on a nitrogen purge.

8123
03:00:09.899 --> 03:00:11.817
That is our safe point.

8124
03:00:11.817 --> 03:00:12.501
That's what we're looking

8125
03:00:12.501 --> 03:00:14.119
to get to today.

8126
03:00:14.119 --> 03:00:14.670
As soon as we're

8127
03:00:14.670 --> 03:00:16.639
there, operations for the day

8128
03:00:16.639 --> 03:00:24.930
will effectively be completed

8129
03:00:25.014 --> 03:00:25.464
tomorrow.

8130
03:00:25.464 --> 03:00:26.549
The CRC,

8131
03:00:26.549 --> 03:00:27.299
the sample canister,

8132
03:00:27.299 --> 03:00:28.501
rather, will be flown

8133
03:00:28.501 --> 03:00:29.418
on her C-17

8134
03:00:29.418 --> 03:00:30.736
cargo plane down to the Johnson

8135
03:00:30.736 --> 03:00:31.854
Space Center, where

8136
03:00:31.854 --> 03:00:32.755
in just a few days

8137
03:00:32.755 --> 03:00:34.106
it will actually be opened up

8138
03:00:34.106 --> 03:00:34.740
for scientists

8139
03:00:34.740 --> 03:00:35.040
to be able

8140
03:00:35.040 --> 03:00:36.826
to see the sample within.

8141
03:00:36.826 --> 03:00:37.676
It's been incredible

8142
03:00:37.676 --> 03:00:39.411
covering the moments of today,

8143
03:00:39.411 --> 03:00:41.363
the journey of our SAIC

8144
03:00:41.363 --> 03:00:42.414
from BENNU

8145
03:00:42.414 --> 03:00:43.365
to the desert of Utah

8146
03:00:43.365 --> 03:00:44.600
to our CLEANROOM.

8147
03:00:44.600 --> 03:00:46.218
And for now, back to you.

8148
03:00:46.218 --> 03:00:49.088
Learned Jim

8149
03:00:49.154 --> 03:00:50.339
Fields, your coverage

8150
03:00:50.339 --> 03:00:52.124
has been impeccable.

8151
03:00:52.124 --> 03:00:53.025
We could not have done it

8152
03:00:53.025 --> 03:00:55.160
without you. Go, James.

8153
03:00:55.160 --> 03:00:56.428
So to be clear, the newly

8154
03:00:56.428 --> 03:00:57.713
designed, redesigned Apex

8155
03:00:57.713 --> 03:00:58.280
mission

8156
03:00:58.280 --> 03:00:59.849
will not be touching down

8157
03:00:59.849 --> 03:01:01.467
on its destination

8158
03:01:01.467 --> 03:01:02.751
asteroid Apophis.

8159
03:01:02.751 --> 03:01:03.736
The big reason for that,

8160
03:01:03.736 --> 03:01:04.169
of course,

8161
03:01:04.169 --> 03:01:05.538
is that the vehicle's single

8162
03:01:05.538 --> 03:01:07.523
use sample collection device

8163
03:01:07.523 --> 03:01:09.325
just arrived here on Earth,

8164
03:01:09.325 --> 03:01:10.276
containing samples

8165
03:01:10.276 --> 03:01:11.660
of asteroid bennu.

8166
03:01:11.660 --> 03:01:13.012
After more than hundreds

8167
03:01:13.012 --> 03:01:14.880
of millions of miles in space,

8168
03:01:14.880 --> 03:01:16.582
that sample will now travel

8169
03:01:16.582 --> 03:01:18.150
a few hundred more miles

8170
03:01:18.150 --> 03:01:19.768
to a specially prepared home

8171
03:01:19.768 --> 03:01:20.903
where experts intend

8172
03:01:20.903 --> 03:01:22.037
not only to study it,

8173
03:01:22.037 --> 03:01:23.055
but also preserve it

8174
03:01:23.055 --> 03:01:24.807
for future generations.

8175
03:01:24.807 --> 03:01:26.458
That facility is the purview

8176
03:01:26.458 --> 03:01:27.810
of our next guests.

8177
03:01:27.810 --> 03:01:28.911
Eileen Stansbury

8178
03:01:28.911 --> 03:01:29.511
is the chief

8179
03:01:29.511 --> 03:01:30.563
of the Astro Materials

8180
03:01:30.563 --> 03:01:31.914
Materials Research

8181
03:01:31.914 --> 03:01:33.165
and Exploration Division

8182
03:01:33.165 --> 03:01:34.850
at the Johnson Space Center.

8183
03:01:34.850 --> 03:01:36.502
Welcome, Eileen.

8184
03:01:36.502 --> 03:01:38.003
Welcome. Welcome, welcome.

8185
03:01:38.003 --> 03:01:38.454
Thank you.

8186
03:01:38.454 --> 03:01:38.988
How about that?

8187
03:01:38.988 --> 03:01:40.339
Did you check out that

8188
03:01:40.339 --> 03:01:41.790
all of that cool movement

8189
03:01:41.790 --> 03:01:42.741
between the clean room

8190
03:01:42.741 --> 03:01:44.209
and everyone preparing it?

8191
03:01:44.209 --> 03:01:45.177
Absolutely.

8192
03:01:45.177 --> 03:01:48.113
It's it's so exciting.

8193
03:01:48.113 --> 03:01:49.765
Anytime you get samples back

8194
03:01:49.765 --> 03:01:52.034
and being here today

8195
03:01:52.034 --> 03:01:53.335
to receive the Bennu

8196
03:01:53.335 --> 03:01:56.338
samples is a highlight.

8197
03:01:56.505 --> 03:01:57.590
The team has been

8198
03:01:57.590 --> 03:01:58.824
extraordinary.

8199
03:01:58.824 --> 03:02:00.175
The

8200
03:02:00.175 --> 03:02:01.343
the work that all

8201
03:02:01.343 --> 03:02:04.947
the variety of of

8202
03:02:05.030 --> 03:02:06.015
participants, team

8203
03:02:06.015 --> 03:02:07.366
members, teammates

8204
03:02:07.366 --> 03:02:10.135
that work on this mission

8205
03:02:10.135 --> 03:02:12.171
have been extraordinary

8206
03:02:12.171 --> 03:02:15.557
from the the flight teams the

8207
03:02:15.557 --> 03:02:16.759
the mission development

8208
03:02:16.759 --> 03:02:19.762
teams operations

8209
03:02:19.878 --> 03:02:22.164
science curation

8210
03:02:22.164 --> 03:02:23.849
all working together

8211
03:02:23.849 --> 03:02:25.434
to bring these samples

8212
03:02:25.434 --> 03:02:26.602
home to us.

8213
03:02:26.602 --> 03:02:28.320
And

8214
03:02:28.320 --> 03:02:31.807
it may seem

8215
03:02:31.890 --> 03:02:34.076
as if it takes a lot of time

8216
03:02:34.076 --> 03:02:35.778
getting into the clean room

8217
03:02:35.778 --> 03:02:36.712
and processing

8218
03:02:36.712 --> 03:02:39.298
in the clean room.

8219
03:02:39.298 --> 03:02:41.450
But a lot of that is because

8220
03:02:41.450 --> 03:02:43.218
of preserving

8221
03:02:43.218 --> 03:02:46.772
the contamination,

8222
03:02:46.855 --> 03:02:48.691
the scientific integrity,

8223
03:02:48.691 --> 03:02:50.275
minimizing the contamination

8224
03:02:50.275 --> 03:02:51.327
on the samples.

8225
03:02:51.327 --> 03:02:51.860
Clean room

8226
03:02:51.860 --> 03:02:54.780
protocol is always slow

8227
03:02:54.780 --> 03:02:55.914
and methodical

8228
03:02:55.914 --> 03:02:59.234
to allow any dust or particles

8229
03:02:59.234 --> 03:03:00.719
that gets generated

8230
03:03:00.719 --> 03:03:02.271
or any of the debris

8231
03:03:02.271 --> 03:03:03.539
from the back gel

8232
03:03:03.539 --> 03:03:05.124
to settle

8233
03:03:05.124 --> 03:03:07.042
before you do the next step.

8234
03:03:07.042 --> 03:03:09.078
So all of these steps

8235
03:03:09.078 --> 03:03:10.696
are very

8236
03:03:10.696 --> 03:03:12.598
carefully choreographed

8237
03:03:12.598 --> 03:03:13.999
to ensure

8238
03:03:13.999 --> 03:03:16.552
the scientific integrity

8239
03:03:16.552 --> 03:03:19.521
and maintain the pristine

8240
03:03:19.521 --> 03:03:22.057
nature of these samples.

8241
03:03:22.124 --> 03:03:23.008
And you'll be doing,

8242
03:03:23.008 --> 03:03:24.560
Eileen, when you receive this

8243
03:03:24.560 --> 03:03:26.028
in your laboratories at Houston

8244
03:03:26.028 --> 03:03:27.296
and Johnson Space Center,

8245
03:03:27.296 --> 03:03:28.580
you'll be doing the next phase

8246
03:03:28.580 --> 03:03:30.299
of that very special curation.

8247
03:03:30.299 --> 03:03:30.949
Can you tell us

8248
03:03:30.949 --> 03:03:31.950
a little about that?

8249
03:03:31.950 --> 03:03:33.168
Yes, we're

8250
03:03:33.168 --> 03:03:35.304
we have a special facility

8251
03:03:35.304 --> 03:03:36.505
that was designed

8252
03:03:36.505 --> 03:03:39.508
in particular for these samples

8253
03:03:39.658 --> 03:03:41.276
to have

8254
03:03:41.276 --> 03:03:42.745
all of the appropriate

8255
03:03:42.745 --> 03:03:44.630
materials restrictions

8256
03:03:44.630 --> 03:03:45.681
to make sure

8257
03:03:45.681 --> 03:03:47.933
that these particular samples

8258
03:03:47.933 --> 03:03:51.387
stay pristine for generations

8259
03:03:51.387 --> 03:03:51.920
to come.

8260
03:03:51.920 --> 03:03:53.155
As stewards

8261
03:03:53.155 --> 03:03:54.857
of the scientific

8262
03:03:54.857 --> 03:03:58.761
value of samples, we manage

8263
03:03:58.977 --> 03:04:02.264
samples for future generations

8264
03:04:02.264 --> 03:04:03.315
in addition

8265
03:04:03.315 --> 03:04:05.634
to the current science

8266
03:04:05.634 --> 03:04:06.685
that is available

8267
03:04:06.685 --> 03:04:07.736
on these samples.

8268
03:04:07.736 --> 03:04:08.537
So the first thing

8269
03:04:08.537 --> 03:04:09.621
that we will do

8270
03:04:09.621 --> 03:04:10.589
is bring them

8271
03:04:10.589 --> 03:04:15.010
into one particular clean room,

8272
03:04:15.077 --> 03:04:15.944
let it settle

8273
03:04:15.944 --> 03:04:16.795
and we will

8274
03:04:16.795 --> 03:04:18.797
transfer the

8275
03:04:18.797 --> 03:04:20.749
the sample canister

8276
03:04:20.749 --> 03:04:22.401
from one level

8277
03:04:22.401 --> 03:04:23.302
of cleanliness

8278
03:04:23.302 --> 03:04:25.487
progressively to the next level

8279
03:04:25.487 --> 03:04:28.757
of cleanliness to ultimately

8280
03:04:29.007 --> 03:04:31.343
a continuously purged

8281
03:04:31.343 --> 03:04:32.995
nitrogen glovebox.

8282
03:04:32.995 --> 03:04:34.580
So what they're doing here

8283
03:04:34.580 --> 03:04:36.949
in the clean room in Utah

8284
03:04:36.949 --> 03:04:40.652
is to remove the contaminating,

8285
03:04:40.736 --> 03:04:42.471
contaminating potential

8286
03:04:42.471 --> 03:04:43.288
of the heat shield

8287
03:04:43.288 --> 03:04:44.423
and back shell

8288
03:04:44.423 --> 03:04:45.858
that were charred

8289
03:04:45.858 --> 03:04:47.326
during reentry

8290
03:04:47.326 --> 03:04:50.579
and get the sample canister

8291
03:04:50.662 --> 03:04:51.647
on purge

8292
03:04:51.647 --> 03:04:53.115
to have nitrogen

8293
03:04:53.115 --> 03:04:55.017
continuously flowing

8294
03:04:55.017 --> 03:04:56.685
through that canister

8295
03:04:56.685 --> 03:04:58.220
to ensure that there's no

8296
03:04:58.220 --> 03:04:59.788
earth contamination as

8297
03:04:59.788 --> 03:05:02.574
that will leak in,

8298
03:05:02.658 --> 03:05:04.576
even though the

8299
03:05:04.576 --> 03:05:05.694
likelihood of that

8300
03:05:05.694 --> 03:05:06.645
is vanishingly

8301
03:05:06.645 --> 03:05:07.496
small,

8302
03:05:07.496 --> 03:05:08.597
making sure that there's

8303
03:05:08.597 --> 03:05:10.466
a continuous nitrogen purge.

8304
03:05:10.466 --> 03:05:12.734
So that nitrogen purge

8305
03:05:12.734 --> 03:05:14.002
will stay

8306
03:05:14.002 --> 03:05:15.737
on the sample canister

8307
03:05:15.737 --> 03:05:18.740
until it gets into the

8308
03:05:18.740 --> 03:05:21.743
nitrogen glovebox in Houston,

8309
03:05:21.860 --> 03:05:23.745
where we will start

8310
03:05:23.745 --> 03:05:26.999
integrating the sample canister

8311
03:05:27.232 --> 03:05:28.667
to get to the precious

8312
03:05:28.667 --> 03:05:29.785
cargo inside

8313
03:05:29.785 --> 03:05:31.286
which are inside the sample

8314
03:05:31.286 --> 03:05:32.004
head, which is.

8315
03:05:32.004 --> 03:05:33.388
Yes, right. Okay.

8316
03:05:33.388 --> 03:05:35.924
But there is the possibility

8317
03:05:35.924 --> 03:05:37.426
of some samples

8318
03:05:37.426 --> 03:05:38.961
being within the sample

8319
03:05:38.961 --> 03:05:39.862
return capsule.

8320
03:05:39.862 --> 03:05:41.880
This capsule here,

8321
03:05:41.880 --> 03:05:46.318
because the Tagsam

8322
03:05:46.401 --> 03:05:50.155
event worked

8323
03:05:50.239 --> 03:05:53.709
more well than we anticipated.

8324
03:05:53.775 --> 03:05:55.427
There could be some

8325
03:05:55.427 --> 03:05:56.778
sample of bennu

8326
03:05:56.778 --> 03:05:59.264
within the sample capsule.

8327
03:05:59.264 --> 03:06:01.884
And so we will make sure that

8328
03:06:01.884 --> 03:06:02.901
that sample

8329
03:06:02.901 --> 03:06:04.636
also gets identified

8330
03:06:04.636 --> 03:06:05.637
and saved

8331
03:06:05.637 --> 03:06:08.607
to maintain its integrity here

8332
03:06:08.607 --> 03:06:10.075
so that there

8333
03:06:10.075 --> 03:06:11.877
so that it also retains

8334
03:06:11.877 --> 03:06:12.561
its value.

8335
03:06:12.561 --> 03:06:14.446
Wow. What an opportunity.

8336
03:06:14.446 --> 03:06:15.564
We may have more goodies

8337
03:06:15.564 --> 03:06:16.398
than we thought.

8338
03:06:16.398 --> 03:06:18.417
We thought. Geez, Eileen.

8339
03:06:18.417 --> 03:06:19.067
Well, John,

8340
03:06:19.067 --> 03:06:20.068
thank you so much

8341
03:06:20.068 --> 03:06:21.119
for joining us today.

8342
03:06:21.119 --> 03:06:21.470
We've love.

8343
03:06:21.470 --> 03:06:22.104
Thank you, Mike.

8344
03:06:22.104 --> 03:06:22.487
Really.

8345
03:06:22.487 --> 03:06:23.989
Eileen, congratulations.

8346
03:06:23.989 --> 03:06:26.458
Thank you. And we're so excited

8347
03:06:26.542 --> 03:06:27.776
your whole professional life

8348
03:06:27.776 --> 03:06:28.577
has been planning

8349
03:06:28.577 --> 03:06:29.778
for a future event.

8350
03:06:29.778 --> 03:06:31.230
And then suddenly that day

8351
03:06:31.230 --> 03:06:32.965
arrives, like today,

8352
03:06:32.965 --> 03:06:33.498
which is

8353
03:06:33.498 --> 03:06:35.117
probably a perfect segue way

8354
03:06:35.117 --> 03:06:36.285
to be bringing up something

8355
03:06:36.285 --> 03:06:38.754
that may come as an unexpected

8356
03:06:38.754 --> 03:06:40.789
surprise to mission fans.

8357
03:06:40.789 --> 03:06:42.057
Today may be the conclusion

8358
03:06:42.057 --> 03:06:42.975
of flight operations

8359
03:06:42.975 --> 03:06:43.876
for Osiris-rex,

8360
03:06:43.876 --> 03:06:44.626
but the mission

8361
03:06:44.626 --> 03:06:47.980
is not exactly finished.

8362
03:06:48.046 --> 03:06:49.064
After ground teams

8363
03:06:49.064 --> 03:06:50.265
retrieve the capsule,

8364
03:06:50.265 --> 03:06:51.833
the BENNU samples will be taken

8365
03:06:51.833 --> 03:06:53.485
to NASA's Johnson Space Center

8366
03:06:53.485 --> 03:06:55.187
in Houston, Texas.

8367
03:06:55.187 --> 03:06:56.338
The sample canister

8368
03:06:56.338 --> 03:06:56.989
will be opened

8369
03:06:56.989 --> 03:06:58.223
in the Astro Materials

8370
03:06:58.223 --> 03:06:58.907
Acquisition

8371
03:06:58.907 --> 03:07:00.175
and Curation Facility.

8372
03:07:00.175 --> 03:07:00.959
In the samples

8373
03:07:00.959 --> 03:07:02.728
will be curated, distributed

8374
03:07:02.728 --> 03:07:03.595
and studied

8375
03:07:03.595 --> 03:07:05.931
for decades to come.

8376
03:07:05.931 --> 03:07:07.399
Having delivered its cargo,

8377
03:07:07.399 --> 03:07:09.117
the Osiris-rex spacecraft

8378
03:07:09.117 --> 03:07:10.252
will depart Earth,

8379
03:07:10.252 --> 03:07:11.119
but its journey

8380
03:07:11.119 --> 03:07:13.372
will not quite be finished.

8381
03:07:13.372 --> 03:07:14.690
In a daring encore,

8382
03:07:14.690 --> 03:07:16.008
the renamed Osiris

8383
03:07:16.008 --> 03:07:17.209
Apex will enter

8384
03:07:17.209 --> 03:07:18.927
an elliptical orbit of the sun,

8385
03:07:18.927 --> 03:07:19.912
repeatedly passing

8386
03:07:19.912 --> 03:07:21.179
within the orbit of Venus

8387
03:07:21.179 --> 03:07:22.197
and pushing the limits

8388
03:07:22.197 --> 03:07:24.233
of its thermal design.

8389
03:07:24.233 --> 03:07:25.817
Beginning in 2029,

8390
03:07:25.817 --> 03:07:26.835
it will chase down

8391
03:07:26.835 --> 03:07:27.753
and investigate

8392
03:07:27.753 --> 03:07:29.638
Apophis, a 1200 foot

8393
03:07:29.638 --> 03:07:30.806
stony asteroid

8394
03:07:30.806 --> 03:07:31.590
destined to make

8395
03:07:31.590 --> 03:07:33.358
an exceptionally close flyby

8396
03:07:33.358 --> 03:07:34.927
of Earth.

8397
03:07:35.010 --> 03:07:37.996
After 13 years in deep space

8398
03:07:37.996 --> 03:07:39.715
at the start of a new decade

8399
03:07:39.715 --> 03:07:41.550
alone on a new world,

8400
03:07:41.550 --> 03:07:52.361
the journey will continue.

8401
03:07:52.427 --> 03:07:53.879
Jim Osiris-rex collected

8402
03:07:53.879 --> 03:07:54.680
its samples

8403
03:07:54.680 --> 03:07:55.347
and is bringing them

8404
03:07:55.347 --> 03:07:56.481
back to Earth for analysis

8405
03:07:56.481 --> 03:07:57.749
like we've all watched today.

8406
03:07:57.749 --> 03:07:59.217
But how else is NASA's

8407
03:07:59.217 --> 03:08:00.435
planning to analyze

8408
03:08:00.435 --> 03:08:01.937
its other samples?

8409
03:08:01.937 --> 03:08:04.006
So if you heard from Eileen

8410
03:08:04.006 --> 03:08:04.406
Cyrus

8411
03:08:04.406 --> 03:08:05.657
Rex in Houston,

8412
03:08:05.657 --> 03:08:06.024
we'll start

8413
03:08:06.024 --> 03:08:06.825
the sample preparation

8414
03:08:06.825 --> 03:08:08.310
around hundreds of labs later.

8415
03:08:08.310 --> 03:08:09.227
It's going to be fantastic.

8416
03:08:09.227 --> 03:08:10.679
We also sometimes

8417
03:08:10.679 --> 03:08:11.780
bring our laboratories

8418
03:08:11.780 --> 03:08:13.282
to the samples themselves.

8419
03:08:13.282 --> 03:08:14.783
Curiosity rover,

8420
03:08:14.783 --> 03:08:16.585
she's carrying a huge payload,

8421
03:08:16.585 --> 03:08:17.119
not unlike

8422
03:08:17.119 --> 03:08:17.819
those we'll use

8423
03:08:17.819 --> 03:08:18.920
in laboratories here.

8424
03:08:18.920 --> 03:08:20.789
Sometimes we go to new places

8425
03:08:20.789 --> 03:08:21.857
to actually bring the labs

8426
03:08:21.857 --> 03:08:22.641
to study samples

8427
03:08:22.641 --> 03:08:24.059
that we can't bring home.

8428
03:08:24.059 --> 03:08:25.944
That's our new wrinkle.

8429
03:08:25.944 --> 03:08:27.629
And on that note,

8430
03:08:27.629 --> 03:08:27.929
you know,

8431
03:08:27.929 --> 03:08:29.147
when I consider how many places

8432
03:08:29.147 --> 03:08:30.499
there are to visit, I'm aware

8433
03:08:30.499 --> 03:08:31.316
that a guy like you

8434
03:08:31.316 --> 03:08:32.267
is probably weighing

8435
03:08:32.267 --> 03:08:33.268
all of the choices

8436
03:08:33.268 --> 03:08:34.519
you know about where to go.

8437
03:08:34.519 --> 03:08:35.871
So speaking of which,

8438
03:08:35.871 --> 03:08:36.471
you are

8439
03:08:36.471 --> 03:08:37.673
the principal investigator

8440
03:08:37.673 --> 03:08:38.490
for a new mission

8441
03:08:38.490 --> 03:08:39.324
called Da Vinci,

8442
03:08:39.324 --> 03:08:40.075
which for those at home

8443
03:08:40.075 --> 03:08:41.059
principal investigator

8444
03:08:41.059 --> 03:08:41.843
is basically

8445
03:08:41.843 --> 03:08:43.278
the big guy in charge.

8446
03:08:43.278 --> 03:08:44.846
So what is this mission about?

8447
03:08:44.846 --> 03:08:45.797
So Da Vinci

8448
03:08:45.797 --> 03:08:47.249
is a mission to Venus.

8449
03:08:47.249 --> 03:08:47.749
You could see it

8450
03:08:47.749 --> 03:08:48.917
in the morning sky.

8451
03:08:48.917 --> 03:08:49.851
And we haven't been back

8452
03:08:49.851 --> 03:08:50.419
to the Venus

8453
03:08:50.419 --> 03:08:51.053
atmosphere

8454
03:08:51.053 --> 03:08:52.137
and all the complexity

8455
03:08:52.137 --> 03:08:54.106
and how that formed and evolved

8456
03:08:54.106 --> 03:08:55.674
literally in a generation.

8457
03:08:55.674 --> 03:08:56.475
So together

8458
03:08:56.475 --> 03:08:57.559
with a very big team, it's

8459
03:08:57.559 --> 03:08:58.860
not just the PI.

8460
03:08:58.860 --> 03:08:59.695
I mean,

8461
03:08:59.695 --> 03:09:01.463
Dante is the gold standard pi

8462
03:09:01.463 --> 03:09:02.280
for all of us,

8463
03:09:02.280 --> 03:09:03.165
but with our team,

8464
03:09:03.165 --> 03:09:03.749
we're going to bring

8465
03:09:03.749 --> 03:09:05.000
a spacecraft

8466
03:09:05.000 --> 03:09:05.567
with the kind

8467
03:09:05.567 --> 03:09:06.268
of instrumentation

8468
03:09:06.268 --> 03:09:08.036
we'll be using on the samples

8469
03:09:08.036 --> 03:09:09.738
from Bennu and from Mars

8470
03:09:09.738 --> 03:09:10.739
to the samples

8471
03:09:10.739 --> 03:09:11.356
in the atmosphere.

8472
03:09:11.356 --> 03:09:12.140
That'll tell us

8473
03:09:12.140 --> 03:09:12.357
about

8474
03:09:12.357 --> 03:09:13.008
the assembly of

8475
03:09:13.008 --> 03:09:13.975
that atmosphere,

8476
03:09:13.975 --> 03:09:15.177
whether Venus had oceans

8477
03:09:15.177 --> 03:09:16.044
for how long,

8478
03:09:16.044 --> 03:09:16.995
and come under the clouds

8479
03:09:16.995 --> 03:09:18.380
and see the mountainous regions

8480
03:09:18.380 --> 03:09:19.398
and their chemistry

8481
03:09:19.398 --> 03:09:21.350
for the first time in history.

8482
03:09:21.350 --> 03:09:22.934
And so we're excited to pick up

8483
03:09:22.934 --> 03:09:23.752
on the great news

8484
03:09:23.752 --> 03:09:25.554
from from this mission.

8485
03:09:25.554 --> 03:09:26.638
And I respect that bennu

8486
03:09:26.638 --> 03:09:27.956
and to Mars exploration

8487
03:09:27.956 --> 03:09:29.725
and take that forward to Venus.

8488
03:09:29.725 --> 03:09:30.208
So we'll get

8489
03:09:30.208 --> 03:09:30.976
the next generation

8490
03:09:30.976 --> 03:09:31.710
interested in our

8491
03:09:31.710 --> 03:09:33.228
sister planet.

8492
03:09:33.228 --> 03:09:34.162
So everybody stay

8493
03:09:34.162 --> 03:09:35.280
tuned for that one.

8494
03:09:35.280 --> 03:09:35.747
So, Jim,

8495
03:09:35.747 --> 03:09:36.765
you've also been the PI

8496
03:09:36.765 --> 03:09:39.134
of several previous missions.

8497
03:09:39.134 --> 03:09:40.552
Put yourself in Dante's shoes.

8498
03:09:40.552 --> 03:09:41.870
How would you feel today?

8499
03:09:41.870 --> 03:09:44.456
Dante must be both overwhelmed

8500
03:09:44.456 --> 03:09:45.690
and overjoyed.

8501
03:09:45.690 --> 03:09:46.725
He's probably,

8502
03:09:46.725 --> 03:09:47.692
as my wife says,

8503
03:09:47.692 --> 03:09:49.528
about me, beyond words.

8504
03:09:49.528 --> 03:09:50.812
And he's been waiting

8505
03:09:50.812 --> 03:09:51.780
literally his

8506
03:09:51.780 --> 03:09:53.565
professional lifetime for this.

8507
03:09:53.565 --> 03:09:55.467
It's here, It's happening.

8508
03:09:55.467 --> 03:09:57.285
The science is going to flow.

8509
03:09:57.285 --> 03:09:58.070
They can't miss.

8510
03:09:58.070 --> 03:09:59.071
Honestly,

8511
03:09:59.071 --> 03:09:59.538
I am sure

8512
03:09:59.538 --> 03:10:00.505
Dante and his team

8513
03:10:00.505 --> 03:10:02.724
are just sitting on on pins

8514
03:10:02.724 --> 03:10:03.291
and needles

8515
03:10:03.291 --> 03:10:04.426
waiting for the transfer

8516
03:10:04.426 --> 03:10:04.943
to Houston,

8517
03:10:04.943 --> 03:10:06.344
all that stuff, Eileen said,

8518
03:10:06.344 --> 03:10:07.679
so we can get to work.

8519
03:10:07.679 --> 03:10:09.898
This will be epic.

8520
03:10:09.898 --> 03:10:11.066
And Jim,

8521
03:10:11.066 --> 03:10:11.783
not only are you

8522
03:10:11.783 --> 03:10:13.702
the Pi of of Da Vinci,

8523
03:10:13.702 --> 03:10:15.270
but you actually had a hand

8524
03:10:15.270 --> 03:10:16.822
in Osiris-rex as well.

8525
03:10:16.822 --> 03:10:18.106
Well, way back in the dark

8526
03:10:18.106 --> 03:10:20.275
mists of 15 years ago,

8527
03:10:20.275 --> 03:10:21.209
we were all wondering

8528
03:10:21.209 --> 03:10:22.310
how we can sample things

8529
03:10:22.310 --> 03:10:24.296
as hard as asteroids

8530
03:10:24.296 --> 03:10:25.197
like the DO

8531
03:10:25.197 --> 03:10:26.064
and people

8532
03:10:26.064 --> 03:10:27.449
like Dante and others

8533
03:10:27.449 --> 03:10:28.467
generated the idea.

8534
03:10:28.467 --> 03:10:29.334
We were all talking

8535
03:10:29.334 --> 03:10:30.435
because we wanted to think,

8536
03:10:30.435 --> 03:10:31.169
How do we sample

8537
03:10:31.169 --> 03:10:32.270
the solar system,

8538
03:10:32.270 --> 03:10:33.839
cruise to the moon? Great.

8539
03:10:33.839 --> 03:10:34.823
You know, giant sample

8540
03:10:34.823 --> 03:10:35.841
return systems to Mars.

8541
03:10:35.841 --> 03:10:36.625
Fabulous.

8542
03:10:36.625 --> 03:10:37.492
But these small bodies

8543
03:10:37.492 --> 03:10:38.360
are also important,

8544
03:10:38.360 --> 03:10:39.377
and they've been a priority

8545
03:10:39.377 --> 03:10:40.729
for our National Academy.

8546
03:10:40.729 --> 03:10:41.730
Cometary nuclei,

8547
03:10:41.730 --> 03:10:42.714
asteroids like,

8548
03:10:42.714 --> 03:10:43.498
of course, carbon

8549
03:10:43.498 --> 03:10:44.783
bearing ones like Bennu.

8550
03:10:44.783 --> 03:10:45.834
So when those folks

8551
03:10:45.834 --> 03:10:46.251
got together,

8552
03:10:46.251 --> 03:10:47.819
we were all in conversation

8553
03:10:47.819 --> 03:10:49.337
and they proposed mission ideas

8554
03:10:49.337 --> 03:10:49.855
and some of us

8555
03:10:49.855 --> 03:10:50.956
were able to participate

8556
03:10:50.956 --> 03:10:52.674
in very small ways to help them

8557
03:10:52.674 --> 03:10:53.909
get these missions going.

8558
03:10:53.909 --> 03:10:55.494
It's just a thrill to see them

8559
03:10:55.494 --> 03:10:56.928
succeed so well,

8560
03:10:56.928 --> 03:10:58.997
especially after 15 years.

8561
03:10:58.997 --> 03:10:59.664
As you can see,

8562
03:10:59.664 --> 03:11:01.249
Jim is a wealth of knowledge.

8563
03:11:01.249 --> 03:11:02.184
So on that note,

8564
03:11:02.184 --> 03:11:03.051
we're getting questions

8565
03:11:03.051 --> 03:11:04.736
from around the world

8566
03:11:04.736 --> 03:11:06.354
about this thrilling mission.

8567
03:11:06.354 --> 03:11:06.988
Let's take

8568
03:11:06.988 --> 03:11:09.674
our final questions of the day.

8569
03:11:09.674 --> 03:11:11.176
All right. And oatmeal.

8570
03:11:11.176 --> 03:11:12.294
Today is my birthday.

8571
03:11:12.294 --> 03:11:13.094
Can I have some of

8572
03:11:13.094 --> 03:11:14.029
the asteroid sample?

8573
03:11:14.029 --> 03:11:15.447
It would mean a lot.

8574
03:11:15.447 --> 03:11:16.648
Well,

8575
03:11:16.648 --> 03:11:16.915
you know,

8576
03:11:16.915 --> 03:11:17.599
you heard there's other

8577
03:11:17.599 --> 03:11:19.868
birthdays today, too. And

8578
03:11:19.951 --> 03:11:21.119
I think oatmeal saw that it

8579
03:11:21.119 --> 03:11:22.854
was also Colonel Charles.

8580
03:11:22.854 --> 03:11:24.756
But but is standing

8581
03:11:24.756 --> 03:11:25.891
Glavin and Jason said,

8582
03:11:25.891 --> 03:11:26.124
you know,

8583
03:11:26.124 --> 03:11:27.175
the samples from Bennu

8584
03:11:27.175 --> 03:11:28.944
are for scientific research,

8585
03:11:28.944 --> 03:11:30.745
education, inspiration.

8586
03:11:30.745 --> 03:11:31.580
They'll be used,

8587
03:11:31.580 --> 03:11:32.147
you know,

8588
03:11:32.147 --> 03:11:33.315
for future generations,

8589
03:11:33.315 --> 03:11:34.766
even as Eileen said

8590
03:11:34.766 --> 03:11:35.817
and Jason said.

8591
03:11:35.817 --> 03:11:36.651
So unfortunately,

8592
03:11:36.651 --> 03:11:38.036
we can't give you bennu

8593
03:11:38.036 --> 03:11:39.321
we can give you pictures

8594
03:11:39.321 --> 03:11:40.789
and up close vantage point

8595
03:11:40.789 --> 03:11:42.057
like we've given you today.

8596
03:11:42.057 --> 03:11:43.308
And as the science is done

8597
03:11:43.308 --> 03:11:44.809
by the science community.

8598
03:11:44.809 --> 03:11:46.228
And so you'll be part of that.

8599
03:11:46.228 --> 03:11:47.279
You can write proposals

8600
03:11:47.279 --> 03:11:48.380
to work on samples.

8601
03:11:48.380 --> 03:11:49.080
If you have a neat

8602
03:11:49.080 --> 03:11:50.699
new instrument you want to try.

8603
03:11:50.699 --> 03:11:51.600
So stay tuned.

8604
03:11:51.600 --> 03:11:52.367
Stay tuned.

8605
03:11:52.367 --> 03:11:53.752
And I understand oatmeal.

8606
03:11:53.752 --> 03:11:54.569
I also want

8607
03:11:54.569 --> 03:11:55.403
a piece of that sample.

8608
03:11:55.403 --> 03:11:57.923
But we got to you know, we can.

8609
03:11:57.923 --> 03:11:58.340
All right, Jim,

8610
03:11:58.340 --> 03:12:00.909
let's take one more.

8611
03:12:00.976 --> 03:12:01.459
All right.

8612
03:12:01.459 --> 03:12:04.646
At electoral menace here,

8613
03:12:04.729 --> 03:12:05.597
I got that right.

8614
03:12:05.597 --> 03:12:06.298
What questions

8615
03:12:06.298 --> 03:12:07.516
are we hoping to answer

8616
03:12:07.516 --> 03:12:08.667
by studying the samples

8617
03:12:08.667 --> 03:12:10.168
from asteroid BENNU?

8618
03:12:10.168 --> 03:12:11.520
Well, fantastic question.

8619
03:12:11.520 --> 03:12:12.287
And there are many.

8620
03:12:12.287 --> 03:12:13.605
It's all in the name,

8621
03:12:13.605 --> 03:12:14.339
so we want to look

8622
03:12:14.339 --> 03:12:15.357
at those building

8623
03:12:15.357 --> 03:12:16.124
block chemistries

8624
03:12:16.124 --> 03:12:17.425
of the earliest solar system.

8625
03:12:17.425 --> 03:12:18.376
It's all eradicated

8626
03:12:18.376 --> 03:12:19.110
here on Earth.

8627
03:12:19.110 --> 03:12:20.328
We have to go to places

8628
03:12:20.328 --> 03:12:20.996
like Bennu

8629
03:12:20.996 --> 03:12:21.863
or other asteroids

8630
03:12:21.863 --> 03:12:23.448
like it to get those records.

8631
03:12:23.448 --> 03:12:24.082
So we're going to look

8632
03:12:24.082 --> 03:12:25.400
in the deep time

8633
03:12:25.400 --> 03:12:26.635
to understand our solar system

8634
03:12:26.635 --> 03:12:28.069
from those chemicals.

8635
03:12:28.069 --> 03:12:29.304
We're also going to look at

8636
03:12:29.304 --> 03:12:29.955
how we use

8637
03:12:29.955 --> 03:12:30.922
a real asteroid stuff

8638
03:12:30.922 --> 03:12:31.439
to understand

8639
03:12:31.439 --> 03:12:33.208
what we see of other asteroids

8640
03:12:33.208 --> 03:12:34.009
through telescopes

8641
03:12:34.009 --> 03:12:35.393
and flyby spacecraft.

8642
03:12:35.393 --> 03:12:36.928
That's the ground truthing

8643
03:12:36.928 --> 03:12:37.913
or the asteroid ground

8644
03:12:37.913 --> 03:12:38.930
truth thing that we do.

8645
03:12:38.930 --> 03:12:39.464
We're also going

8646
03:12:39.464 --> 03:12:40.882
to look at resource potential.

8647
03:12:40.882 --> 03:12:42.467
These asteroids contain

8648
03:12:42.467 --> 03:12:44.152
bound water in minerals.

8649
03:12:44.152 --> 03:12:45.287
Those are really cool.

8650
03:12:45.287 --> 03:12:46.638
You can get the water out.

8651
03:12:46.638 --> 03:12:47.188
That's neat.

8652
03:12:47.188 --> 03:12:48.773
Also interesting

8653
03:12:48.773 --> 03:12:50.175
distribution of metals.

8654
03:12:50.175 --> 03:12:51.109
So this is a really

8655
03:12:51.109 --> 03:12:52.043
exciting opportunity

8656
03:12:52.043 --> 03:12:53.028
to put that all together

8657
03:12:53.028 --> 03:12:54.329
and also understand

8658
03:12:54.329 --> 03:12:55.080
the mechanical

8659
03:12:55.080 --> 03:12:56.214
behavior of these objects.

8660
03:12:56.214 --> 03:12:57.265
They're rubble piles,

8661
03:12:57.265 --> 03:12:58.433
how barely together

8662
03:12:58.433 --> 03:12:59.534
flying through space.

8663
03:12:59.534 --> 03:13:00.952
So we're going to do

8664
03:13:00.952 --> 03:13:01.486
all of that

8665
03:13:01.486 --> 03:13:02.370
and answer questions

8666
03:13:02.370 --> 03:13:04.072
we haven't even thought of yet.

8667
03:13:04.072 --> 03:13:05.090
Dante's team

8668
03:13:05.090 --> 03:13:06.725
will invent the question

8669
03:13:06.725 --> 03:13:07.642
for the future

8670
03:13:07.642 --> 03:13:08.510
from what they do

8671
03:13:08.510 --> 03:13:09.945
with these samples.

8672
03:13:09.945 --> 03:13:10.979
Fantastic.

8673
03:13:10.979 --> 03:13:11.813
I think we have time

8674
03:13:11.813 --> 03:13:12.447
for one more.

8675
03:13:12.447 --> 03:13:14.115
Let's let's take a look

8676
03:13:14.115 --> 03:13:16.251
at horrors of coding.

8677
03:13:16.251 --> 03:13:17.869
Is there any worry of possible

8678
03:13:17.869 --> 03:13:19.337
bacteria or virus

8679
03:13:19.337 --> 03:13:20.755
from the sample,

8680
03:13:20.755 --> 03:13:22.857
regardless of the clean room?

8681
03:13:22.857 --> 03:13:24.225
So that's a very good question.

8682
03:13:24.225 --> 03:13:25.310
And of course, the team

8683
03:13:25.310 --> 03:13:25.710
and you heard

8684
03:13:25.710 --> 03:13:27.028
from Jason Dworkin

8685
03:13:27.028 --> 03:13:27.829
and others have been thinking

8686
03:13:27.829 --> 03:13:29.481
about that for a long time.

8687
03:13:29.481 --> 03:13:30.565
We think these types

8688
03:13:30.565 --> 03:13:31.049
of asteroids

8689
03:13:31.049 --> 03:13:31.883
and the materials from them

8690
03:13:31.883 --> 03:13:33.768
are not life bearing

8691
03:13:33.768 --> 03:13:34.853
and they're not life bearing.

8692
03:13:34.853 --> 03:13:36.354
And so we have classified

8693
03:13:36.354 --> 03:13:36.921
this mission

8694
03:13:36.921 --> 03:13:37.822
as a certain class

8695
03:13:37.822 --> 03:13:38.990
of planetary protection.

8696
03:13:38.990 --> 03:13:41.026
So we're not expecting any true

8697
03:13:41.026 --> 03:13:41.910
life bearing

8698
03:13:41.910 --> 03:13:43.795
biological elements to be part.

8699
03:13:43.795 --> 03:13:44.729
But the fragments

8700
03:13:44.729 --> 03:13:46.348
of organic chemistry, carbon

8701
03:13:46.348 --> 03:13:47.248
bearing stuff

8702
03:13:47.248 --> 03:13:47.866
that you heard Danny

8703
03:13:47.866 --> 03:13:48.650
Glavin talk about,

8704
03:13:48.650 --> 03:13:50.085
the building blocks of life,

8705
03:13:50.085 --> 03:13:51.419
the got it all started

8706
03:13:51.419 --> 03:13:52.520
and all the places

8707
03:13:52.520 --> 03:13:53.188
it is here,

8708
03:13:53.188 --> 03:13:54.739
but also maybe elsewhere,

8709
03:13:54.739 --> 03:13:55.523
really important.

8710
03:13:55.523 --> 03:13:56.207
So we don't expect

8711
03:13:56.207 --> 03:13:57.025
to see any of that.

8712
03:13:57.025 --> 03:13:57.809
We've contained

8713
03:13:57.809 --> 03:13:58.576
the contamination.

8714
03:13:58.576 --> 03:14:00.045
You see what's going on now

8715
03:14:00.045 --> 03:14:01.046
in the portable clean room

8716
03:14:01.046 --> 03:14:02.247
and at Eileen's place

8717
03:14:02.247 --> 03:14:03.682
back in Johnson Space Center.

8718
03:14:03.682 --> 03:14:04.849
So we're very optimistic.

8719
03:14:04.849 --> 03:14:05.850
We're not no worries

8720
03:14:05.850 --> 03:14:06.885
about that stuff.

8721
03:14:06.885 --> 03:14:08.486
We're good here.

8722
03:14:08.486 --> 03:14:09.587
So I think we talked about this

8723
03:14:09.587 --> 03:14:10.038
a little bit.

8724
03:14:10.038 --> 03:14:11.339
But I think one thing

8725
03:14:11.339 --> 03:14:12.390
people are maybe wondering

8726
03:14:12.390 --> 03:14:13.041
or even maybe

8727
03:14:13.041 --> 03:14:13.908
a little worried about is

8728
03:14:13.908 --> 03:14:14.259
could the

8729
03:14:14.259 --> 03:14:15.593
sample contaminate Earth?

8730
03:14:15.593 --> 03:14:16.995
Are we at risk of something

8731
03:14:16.995 --> 03:14:18.346
catastrophic, literally

8732
03:14:18.346 --> 03:14:19.614
so vanishingly small

8733
03:14:19.614 --> 03:14:20.565
that no one would

8734
03:14:20.565 --> 03:14:22.017
rightfully bet on anything,

8735
03:14:22.017 --> 03:14:24.019
that this is space,

8736
03:14:24.019 --> 03:14:25.487
rock and dust

8737
03:14:25.487 --> 03:14:27.238
from a time so far ago

8738
03:14:27.238 --> 03:14:27.589
that's been

8739
03:14:27.589 --> 03:14:29.157
baked in the space radiation.

8740
03:14:29.157 --> 03:14:29.691
That wouldn't be good

8741
03:14:29.691 --> 03:14:30.775
for anything organic,

8742
03:14:30.775 --> 03:14:31.559
any living thing.

8743
03:14:31.559 --> 03:14:33.144
Sorry, we're all organic.

8744
03:14:33.144 --> 03:14:35.330
And so we it's been sterilized

8745
03:14:35.330 --> 03:14:36.715
by being in space.

8746
03:14:36.715 --> 03:14:37.315
In effect,

8747
03:14:37.315 --> 03:14:38.450
we do the same thing

8748
03:14:38.450 --> 03:14:39.651
when we go and sterilize stuff

8749
03:14:39.651 --> 03:14:40.318
that we'll bring back

8750
03:14:40.318 --> 03:14:43.688
from planets like Mars. So

8751
03:14:43.755 --> 03:14:44.689
how long is this next

8752
03:14:44.689 --> 03:14:45.990
process going to take?

8753
03:14:45.990 --> 03:14:47.008
You know,

8754
03:14:47.008 --> 03:14:47.475
we've got

8755
03:14:47.475 --> 03:14:48.209
we're in the clean room now.

8756
03:14:48.209 --> 03:14:49.127
We're going to go to Texas.

8757
03:14:49.127 --> 03:14:49.644
How long is this

8758
03:14:49.644 --> 03:14:50.328
all going to take before

8759
03:14:50.328 --> 03:14:51.329
we start getting some results?

8760
03:14:51.329 --> 03:14:54.015
So in the next few weeks

8761
03:14:54.015 --> 03:14:54.799
and next couple of weeks,

8762
03:14:54.799 --> 03:14:55.550
by October 11th,

8763
03:14:55.550 --> 03:14:57.686
we expect the team in Houston,

8764
03:14:57.686 --> 03:14:58.470
Eileen's team

8765
03:14:58.470 --> 03:14:59.654
went together with Dante's

8766
03:14:59.654 --> 03:15:01.256
team will have done that first,

8767
03:15:01.256 --> 03:15:02.924
the first proper

8768
03:15:02.924 --> 03:15:03.892
containment

8769
03:15:03.892 --> 03:15:05.460
and and

8770
03:15:05.460 --> 03:15:06.628
understanding all the possible

8771
03:15:06.628 --> 03:15:07.946
sources of contamination

8772
03:15:07.946 --> 03:15:08.813
so they can document

8773
03:15:08.813 --> 03:15:09.864
those for the future

8774
03:15:09.864 --> 03:15:10.799
and also make sure they're

8775
03:15:10.799 --> 03:15:11.750
through all those dates

8776
03:15:11.750 --> 03:15:13.034
that Eileen was mentioning.

8777
03:15:13.034 --> 03:15:14.185
So the samples are protected

8778
03:15:14.185 --> 03:15:15.136
from anything from Earth,

8779
03:15:15.136 --> 03:15:16.755
so they won't be contaminated.

8780
03:15:16.755 --> 03:15:17.722
Then they'll do some

8781
03:15:17.722 --> 03:15:18.707
first characterization

8782
03:15:18.707 --> 03:15:19.758
with all these great machines

8783
03:15:19.758 --> 03:15:20.875
they have in Houston.

8784
03:15:20.875 --> 03:15:21.776
And we'll start talking

8785
03:15:21.776 --> 03:15:22.494
about what they get

8786
03:15:22.494 --> 03:15:23.728
by the end of October

8787
03:15:23.728 --> 03:15:25.013
going into the Christmas time.

8788
03:15:25.013 --> 03:15:26.297
And by the end of January,

8789
03:15:26.297 --> 03:15:26.815
I've been told

8790
03:15:26.815 --> 03:15:27.749
the science team meeting,

8791
03:15:27.749 --> 03:15:28.883
the sample leaders

8792
03:15:28.883 --> 03:15:29.868
will start reporting

8793
03:15:29.868 --> 03:15:31.703
to all of us what's going on.

8794
03:15:31.703 --> 03:15:33.588
Wow, that is soon.

8795
03:15:33.588 --> 03:15:34.305
And you heard that

8796
03:15:34.305 --> 03:15:36.524
unboxing day is October 11th.

8797
03:15:36.524 --> 03:15:37.759
That I guess right

8798
03:15:37.759 --> 03:15:39.210
will be a Christmas party

8799
03:15:39.210 --> 03:15:39.677
for Sam.

8800
03:15:39.677 --> 03:15:41.813
Oh, okay. That's right.

8801
03:15:41.813 --> 03:15:42.630
So, Jim, I'm

8802
03:15:42.630 --> 03:15:43.581
struck by how

8803
03:15:43.581 --> 03:15:44.549
these last few minutes

8804
03:15:44.549 --> 03:15:46.584
compared to the last few years,

8805
03:15:46.584 --> 03:15:47.302
you know, here

8806
03:15:47.302 --> 03:15:47.836
we just saw

8807
03:15:47.836 --> 03:15:49.888
human hands willing,

8808
03:15:49.888 --> 03:15:51.890
precious, precious scientific,

8809
03:15:51.890 --> 03:15:52.824
you know, cargo

8810
03:15:52.824 --> 03:15:53.775
at walking speed

8811
03:15:53.775 --> 03:15:55.343
when just a few hours ago,

8812
03:15:55.343 --> 03:15:57.228
it was barreling through

8813
03:15:57.228 --> 03:15:59.431
Earth's atmosphere. Exactly.

8814
03:15:59.431 --> 03:16:01.766
We went from cosmic velocity

8815
03:16:01.766 --> 03:16:02.667
to velocity,

8816
03:16:02.667 --> 03:16:04.886
smaller than an ant would use

8817
03:16:04.886 --> 03:16:06.020
to crawl across the table

8818
03:16:06.020 --> 03:16:06.988
to pick up a crumb.

8819
03:16:06.988 --> 03:16:07.555
And so

8820
03:16:07.555 --> 03:16:08.990
that's the speed of science

8821
03:16:08.990 --> 03:16:09.591
to get it.

8822
03:16:09.591 --> 03:16:10.341
The engineering

8823
03:16:10.341 --> 03:16:11.176
flies, cosmic

8824
03:16:11.176 --> 03:16:12.594
velocity sampling,

8825
03:16:12.594 --> 03:16:13.912
all that great dynamics.

8826
03:16:13.912 --> 03:16:14.446
And finally,

8827
03:16:14.446 --> 03:16:15.680
now the careful,

8828
03:16:15.680 --> 03:16:17.265
methodical

8829
03:16:17.265 --> 03:16:18.266
snail's pace

8830
03:16:18.266 --> 03:16:19.317
to get it done right.

8831
03:16:19.317 --> 03:16:20.301
So we preserve it.

8832
03:16:20.301 --> 03:16:21.503
I mean, this is like

8833
03:16:21.503 --> 03:16:23.238
geo archeology of samples

8834
03:16:23.238 --> 03:16:24.839
from a place that's not earth.

8835
03:16:24.839 --> 03:16:27.358
Very special. Yeah, absolutely.

8836
03:16:27.358 --> 03:16:28.226
The sample return

8837
03:16:28.226 --> 03:16:29.160
capsule isn't done

8838
03:16:29.160 --> 03:16:30.411
traveling, of course,

8839
03:16:30.411 --> 03:16:31.679
once it gets stabilized on

8840
03:16:31.679 --> 03:16:33.198
what's called a nitrogen purge

8841
03:16:33.198 --> 03:16:33.915
to ensure everything

8842
03:16:33.915 --> 03:16:35.250
remains dry and uncooked

8843
03:16:35.250 --> 03:16:36.534
and contaminated

8844
03:16:36.534 --> 03:16:37.819
by intrusive gases,

8845
03:16:37.819 --> 03:16:38.870
the entire apparatus

8846
03:16:38.870 --> 03:16:39.504
will be loaded

8847
03:16:39.504 --> 03:16:40.855
aboard a C-17

8848
03:16:40.855 --> 03:16:41.840
cargo plane

8849
03:16:41.840 --> 03:16:43.074
for a flight on its way

8850
03:16:43.074 --> 03:16:44.692
home to Johnson Space Center.

8851
03:16:44.692 --> 03:16:45.477
Once it arrives,

8852
03:16:45.477 --> 03:16:46.728
scientists are ready to start

8853
03:16:46.728 --> 03:16:47.662
working on vital

8854
03:16:47.662 --> 03:16:48.480
research on this.

8855
03:16:48.480 --> 03:16:49.013
It's stored

8856
03:16:49.013 --> 03:16:49.697
and re sample

8857
03:16:49.697 --> 03:16:51.616
of the asteroid BENNU.

8858
03:16:51.616 --> 03:16:52.817
But that airplane ride

8859
03:16:52.817 --> 03:16:54.018
and the research plans

8860
03:16:54.018 --> 03:16:54.719
waiting for it

8861
03:16:54.719 --> 03:16:56.004
on the other side

8862
03:16:56.004 --> 03:16:57.172
starts tomorrow.

8863
03:16:57.172 --> 03:16:58.339
For now, the Osiris-rex

8864
03:16:58.339 --> 03:16:59.390
sample return capsule

8865
03:16:59.390 --> 03:17:01.226
has completed its solo journey

8866
03:17:01.226 --> 03:17:03.495
of nearly 4 billion miles,

8867
03:17:03.495 --> 03:17:04.979
landing in the Utah desert

8868
03:17:04.979 --> 03:17:06.381
and is now in the expert

8869
03:17:06.381 --> 03:17:07.048
care of our

8870
03:17:07.048 --> 03:17:09.501
onsite sample curation team.

8871
03:17:09.501 --> 03:17:09.984
But we're not out

8872
03:17:09.984 --> 03:17:10.668
of the woods yet.

8873
03:17:10.668 --> 03:17:11.536
We did mention this

8874
03:17:11.536 --> 03:17:12.871
nitrogen purge. That's right.

8875
03:17:12.871 --> 03:17:13.855
So we have to

8876
03:17:13.855 --> 03:17:15.023
carefully contain this

8877
03:17:15.023 --> 03:17:16.641
so we can do that work

8878
03:17:16.641 --> 03:17:18.810
and literally really transform

8879
03:17:18.810 --> 03:17:19.978
knowledge for all time.

8880
03:17:19.978 --> 03:17:21.563
This is the thing

8881
03:17:21.563 --> 03:17:22.380
that we dream of.

8882
03:17:22.380 --> 03:17:23.998
And with Dante and his team

8883
03:17:23.998 --> 03:17:24.716
ten years ago,

8884
03:17:24.716 --> 03:17:25.667
we're thinking of that

8885
03:17:25.667 --> 03:17:26.835
transformational knowledge.

8886
03:17:26.835 --> 03:17:27.352
It'll change how

8887
03:17:27.352 --> 03:17:29.037
we think of ourselves.

8888
03:17:29.037 --> 03:17:30.622
And we couldn't let you.

8889
03:17:30.622 --> 03:17:31.890
We couldn't let you go

8890
03:17:31.890 --> 03:17:33.408
before we share something fun.

8891
03:17:33.408 --> 03:17:35.310
So we just delivered a sample

8892
03:17:35.310 --> 03:17:36.494
of the asteroid

8893
03:17:36.494 --> 03:17:38.880
Bennu back to Earth. But

8894
03:17:38.963 --> 03:17:41.633
the UPS can also deliver

8895
03:17:41.633 --> 03:17:42.467
funds

8896
03:17:42.467 --> 03:17:44.335
from stamps of the actual

8897
03:17:44.335 --> 03:17:45.386
asteroid BENNU

8898
03:17:45.386 --> 03:17:46.905
So let me turn that over

8899
03:17:46.905 --> 03:17:47.989
so you can see it on this side.

8900
03:17:47.989 --> 03:17:48.923
How fun is that?

8901
03:17:48.923 --> 03:17:51.059
So we have brought an asteroid

8902
03:17:51.059 --> 03:17:52.577
first class delivery

8903
03:17:52.577 --> 03:17:54.562
from Osiris-rex to Earth

8904
03:17:54.562 --> 03:17:55.613
and our postal service

8905
03:17:55.613 --> 03:17:56.664
here in the United States

8906
03:17:56.664 --> 03:17:57.715
issuing

8907
03:17:57.715 --> 03:17:59.300
to build on that inspiration

8908
03:17:59.300 --> 03:18:00.018
so they can deliver

8909
03:18:00.018 --> 03:18:01.069
our packages for us.

8910
03:18:01.069 --> 03:18:02.070
How exciting.

8911
03:18:02.070 --> 03:18:02.754
And everybody

8912
03:18:02.754 --> 03:18:03.288
needs to get some.

8913
03:18:03.288 --> 03:18:03.988
These are really good.

8914
03:18:03.988 --> 03:18:04.606
I want one.

8915
03:18:04.606 --> 03:18:06.174
I would like one too,

8916
03:18:06.174 --> 03:18:07.375
as we're wrapping coverage

8917
03:18:07.375 --> 03:18:08.509
here at the Utah Test

8918
03:18:08.509 --> 03:18:09.477
and Training range,

8919
03:18:09.477 --> 03:18:10.311
let me remind you

8920
03:18:10.311 --> 03:18:11.212
that this is not

8921
03:18:11.212 --> 03:18:12.413
the end of the story.

8922
03:18:12.413 --> 03:18:14.032
Next up is our POST-LANDING

8923
03:18:14.032 --> 03:18:14.632
news conference

8924
03:18:14.632 --> 03:18:15.767
scheduled for 3 p.m.

8925
03:18:15.767 --> 03:18:17.385
Mountain Time, 5 p.m.

8926
03:18:17.385 --> 03:18:19.220
Eastern Time on NASA TV,

8927
03:18:19.220 --> 03:18:20.054
presented live

8928
03:18:20.054 --> 03:18:21.706
right here on nasa.gov

8929
03:18:21.706 --> 03:18:23.508
and other streaming sites.

8930
03:18:23.508 --> 03:18:24.509
You can also find mission

8931
03:18:24.509 --> 03:18:26.477
updates on X at NASA

8932
03:18:26.477 --> 03:18:29.030
and on the web at nasa.gov.

8933
03:18:29.030 --> 03:18:29.781
That's all the time

8934
03:18:29.781 --> 03:18:30.748
we have for today.

8935
03:18:30.748 --> 03:18:32.934
Jim, it has been a pleasure

8936
03:18:32.934 --> 03:18:34.636
sharing the stage with you.

8937
03:18:34.636 --> 03:18:35.486
We did it together.

8938
03:18:35.486 --> 03:18:37.922
Thank you for having me.

8939
03:18:38.006 --> 03:18:39.390
And a huge thank you to all

8940
03:18:39.390 --> 03:18:40.041
of our guests

8941
03:18:40.041 --> 03:18:40.942
for joining us today.

8942
03:18:40.942 --> 03:18:41.459
And a warm

8943
03:18:41.459 --> 03:18:42.827
thanks to all of you out there

8944
03:18:42.827 --> 03:18:44.095
for watching us.

8945
03:18:44.095 --> 03:18:45.113
Here are some highlights

8946
03:18:45.113 --> 03:18:48.900
from today's exciting landing

8947
03:18:48.983 --> 03:18:50.268
special coverage of America's

8948
03:18:50.268 --> 03:18:51.619
first asteroid sample

8949
03:18:51.619 --> 03:18:52.587
return mission

8950
03:18:52.587 --> 03:18:54.138
osiris-rex as it arrives

8951
03:18:54.138 --> 03:18:54.856
back to Earth

8952
03:18:54.856 --> 03:18:56.474
after more than seven years,

8953
03:18:56.474 --> 03:18:59.727
probably space

8954
03:18:59.811 --> 03:19:01.529
will see detailed

8955
03:19:01.529 --> 03:19:04.115
milestones have been confirmed

8956
03:19:04.115 --> 03:19:05.817
portions of time. Wow.

8957
03:19:05.817 --> 03:19:08.119
And after an exhilarating

8958
03:19:08.119 --> 03:19:08.987
streak across

8959
03:19:08.987 --> 03:19:10.254
Earth's atmosphere,

8960
03:19:10.254 --> 03:19:11.639
we have parachute deployment.

8961
03:19:11.639 --> 03:19:12.690
You can see

8962
03:19:12.690 --> 03:19:13.608
just a sigh of relief

8963
03:19:13.608 --> 03:19:13.975
from the team.

8964
03:19:13.975 --> 03:19:19.564
I can hear some applause here.

8965
03:19:19.647 --> 03:19:21.449
Disconnecting from the action

8966
03:19:21.449 --> 03:19:22.917
will then actually unwrap

8967
03:19:22.917 --> 03:19:23.901
all of the thermal blanketing

8968
03:19:23.901 --> 03:19:24.585
once we actually get it

8969
03:19:24.585 --> 03:19:25.620
into the clean room here.

8970
03:19:25.620 --> 03:19:27.355
The recovery operations,

8971
03:19:27.355 --> 03:19:28.189
that's our season.

8972
03:19:28.189 --> 03:19:29.157
The president

8973
03:19:29.157 --> 03:19:30.441
and all gear has been

8974
03:19:30.441 --> 03:19:31.826
stowed in the helicopter.