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Crossed wires led to excessive drama as NASA returned asteroid samples to Earth
Enlarge / The OSIRIS-REx pattern return capsule, with its major parachute close by, shortly after touchdown in Utah on September 24, 2023. (credit score: Keegan Barber/NASA) This was the second Dante Lauretta had waited for almost 20 years to see.