(Rick Bowmer | The Associated Press) A helicopter recovery team departs the Michael Army Air Field before the arrival of a space capsule carrying NASA's first asteroid samples on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, to a temporary clean room at Dugway Proving Ground, in Utah. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the capsule following a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back.
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