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When bringing a sample of the cosmos
back to Earth,

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it's important to find a good landing zone
that won't compromise the sample.

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That's why NASA's partnered
with the Army's Dugway Proving Ground.

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Its vast open
space makes it ideal for the task,

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but Osiris-rex is neither the first
nor the last mission to land here.

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In 2004,
the Genesis mission landed here at Dugway,

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delivering our first ever samples of solar
wind in 2006.

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NASA's landed at Dugway again, this time
with a mission called Stardust,

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which gathered
samples of interstellar dust.

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Both of these missions helped fuel
our understanding of the universe

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and wouldn't have been possible without
a safe landing zone, just like Osiris-rex.

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After today, NASA and Dugway
are looking towards the future

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to the Mars sample return mission
that will once again be

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bringing a unique sample of our universe
right here to Dugway Proving Ground.