Utah Test and Training Range
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The Utah Test and Training Range is a Department of Defense military testing and training area located in Utah's West Desert, approximately 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah. UTTR is currently the
OSIRIS-REx return capsule after landing at UTTR in 2023
OSIRIS-REx
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OSIRIS-REx was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. The material, returned in September 2023, is ex
Utah Test and Training Range
…has also been used as a landing site for sample return in NASA's planetary science missions, including comet material in the Stardust mission and the OSIRIS-REx mission to return material from asteroid (101955) Bennu. UTTR was also used as the landing site for the Genesis sample return mission. Although the…
OSIRIS-REx in Launch Configuration
Artist's concept of TAGSAM instrument in operation
Two members of the recovery team examine the return capsule after landing.
Close-up photo of the return capsule upon landing