1 00:00:12,078 --> 00:00:15,081 There's been nothing like Osiris-rex in NASA's repertoire. 2 00:00:15,265 --> 00:00:18,268 I like to call it the Daredevil spacecraft. 3 00:00:18,468 --> 00:00:19,736 10 seconds. 4 00:00:19,736 --> 00:00:25,859 Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, 5 00:00:25,942 --> 00:00:30,063 two. One. 6 00:00:30,146 --> 00:00:33,433 And liftoff of OSIRIS-REx. 7 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:36,986 Its seven year mission to boldly go. 8 00:00:37,070 --> 00:00:37,971 To the asteroid. 9 00:00:37,971 --> 00:00:45,512 Bennu and back. 10 00:00:45,595 --> 00:00:47,847 Hello and welcome. 11 00:00:47,847 --> 00:00:50,817 I'm Karen Fox with NASA's Office of Communications. 12 00:00:50,817 --> 00:00:55,021 And we are here today at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah 13 00:00:55,105 --> 00:01:00,093 for a press briefing on NASA's Osiris-rex mission. 14 00:01:00,176 --> 00:01:03,797 Earlier today, the mission jettisoned the capsule containing samples 15 00:01:03,797 --> 00:01:07,967 from asteroid Bennu that parachuted down onto the Utah Test 16 00:01:07,967 --> 00:01:12,572 and Training range so we can study those samples here on Earth. 17 00:01:12,655 --> 00:01:16,810 It's been a very big day, and we're gonna kick it off with some highlights. 18 00:01:16,893 --> 00:01:19,729 And. Gear while still 19 00:01:19,729 --> 00:01:24,451 SRC is experiencing maximum heating and maximum deceleration. 20 00:01:24,534 --> 00:01:25,168 So you just heard right 21 00:01:25,168 --> 00:01:29,539 they were experiencing that 5000 degree Fahrenheit maximum heating EDL miles. 22 00:01:29,539 --> 00:01:33,443 So we have in terms of parachute deployment. Wow. 23 00:01:33,443 --> 00:01:35,678 And after an exhilarating 24 00:01:35,762 --> 00:01:39,232 streak across Earth's atmosphere, we have parachute deployment. 25 00:01:39,232 --> 00:01:41,601 You can see just a sigh of relief from the team. 26 00:01:41,601 --> 00:01:43,319 I can hear some applause here. 27 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,322 The team over at WB 57 28 00:01:46,556 --> 00:01:47,690 Touchdown 29 00:01:47,690 --> 00:01:49,459 I repeat, EDL 30 00:01:49,459 --> 00:01:51,077 SRC has touchdown. 31 00:01:51,077 --> 00:01:54,114 And touchdown of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule 32 00:01:54,264 --> 00:01:59,352 a journey of a billion miles to asteroid BENNU and back has come to an end 33 00:01:59,419 --> 00:02:02,422 marking America's first sample return mission of its kind 34 00:02:02,489 --> 00:02:05,492 and opening a time capsule to our ancient solar system. 35 00:02:05,692 --> 00:02:08,178 A sample carrying fixture. 36 00:02:08,178 --> 00:02:12,115 Of the operations WB has located the parachute on the ground. 37 00:02:12,198 --> 00:02:13,283 You just heard that confirmation 38 00:02:13,283 --> 00:02:17,170 from that high altitude plane locating that parachute on him. 39 00:02:17,237 --> 00:02:21,107 We have here a panel will all give you some of their impressions 40 00:02:21,107 --> 00:02:23,243 and some information about what happened today. 41 00:02:23,243 --> 00:02:24,177 And then we will go on 42 00:02:24,177 --> 00:02:28,498 to take some questions from media in the room and on the phone line. 43 00:02:28,498 --> 00:02:32,368 We have with us, Lori Glaze, who is the director for NASA's 44 00:02:32,368 --> 00:02:37,390 planetary science division at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC. 45 00:02:37,457 --> 00:02:40,493 We have Dante Lauretta, who is the Osiris-rex 46 00:02:40,493 --> 00:02:44,247 principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson. 47 00:02:44,330 --> 00:02:47,717 Next, we have Mike Moreau, who is the deputy project manager 48 00:02:47,717 --> 00:02:52,272 for the Mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. 49 00:02:52,338 --> 00:02:55,558 And Tim Priser, the chief engineer for Deep Space 50 00:02:55,558 --> 00:02:58,811 exploration at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado. 51 00:02:58,878 --> 00:03:02,665 And finally, Eileen Stansbery, who is the chief scientist at NASA's 52 00:03:02,665 --> 00:03:07,053 Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. 53 00:03:07,136 --> 00:03:11,224 Lori passing it to you. Great. Thanks, Karen. 54 00:03:11,307 --> 00:03:12,292 I don't even know what to say. 55 00:03:12,292 --> 00:03:14,911 What an incredible day this has been. 56 00:03:14,911 --> 00:03:19,148 It has just been phenomenal from start to finish. 57 00:03:19,232 --> 00:03:22,402 I wanted to start just by thanking everyone that's been here, 58 00:03:22,552 --> 00:03:26,823 sharing this with us here at the Dugway Proving Ground and everyone 59 00:03:26,823 --> 00:03:30,660 around the world who has watched and followed along all day. 60 00:03:30,743 --> 00:03:32,545 It has just been amazing. 61 00:03:32,545 --> 00:03:36,499 We just appreciate everyone coming along with us to celebrate NASA's 62 00:03:36,499 --> 00:03:40,169 first ever asteroid sample return. 63 00:03:40,370 --> 00:03:42,205 It has been incredible. 64 00:03:42,205 --> 00:03:46,109 And these samples that we've brought back and now you're going to hear 65 00:03:46,109 --> 00:03:47,126 what the next steps are. 66 00:03:47,126 --> 00:03:49,279 And you know what we're going to do with those samples. 67 00:03:49,279 --> 00:03:53,032 Those are going to be a treasure for scientific analysis for years 68 00:03:53,032 --> 00:03:56,519 and years and years to come to our kids 69 00:03:56,519 --> 00:03:59,572 and our grandkids and people that haven't even been born yet. 70 00:03:59,606 --> 00:04:02,609 It's going to be absolutely incredible. 71 00:04:02,725 --> 00:04:04,861 And another thing I just want to point out is that, you know, 72 00:04:04,861 --> 00:04:09,249 this these types of samples, they are they are truly the gifts that keep on giving. 73 00:04:09,265 --> 00:04:10,166 They are a treasure. 74 00:04:10,166 --> 00:04:13,920 And this mission, Osiris-rex, is kicking off a decade 75 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,223 of sample return following Osiris-rex. 76 00:04:17,307 --> 00:04:22,078 NASA's partnering with the Japanese Space Agency on the Mars Moon Explorer mission, 77 00:04:22,078 --> 00:04:26,082 which is going to bring samples back from the Mars Moon Phobos. 78 00:04:26,149 --> 00:04:26,699 We're going to have 79 00:04:26,699 --> 00:04:30,420 new Artemus samples of the moon 80 00:04:30,503 --> 00:04:33,690 feed, incredible new scientific analysis and new understanding 81 00:04:33,690 --> 00:04:37,143 of our closest neighbor, the moon, and then capped off 82 00:04:37,226 --> 00:04:40,997 with the return of samples from Mars, samples that are currently 83 00:04:40,997 --> 00:04:44,000 being collected by the Perseverance Rover on the surface of Mars. 84 00:04:44,250 --> 00:04:49,322 So this is just an amazing an amazing opportunity here to to kick that off. 85 00:04:49,405 --> 00:04:52,108 I did want to make sure I take this opportunity to thank 86 00:04:52,108 --> 00:04:55,111 those that that made this possible. 87 00:04:55,128 --> 00:04:57,780 What you saw today, everything that you saw 88 00:04:57,780 --> 00:05:00,750 could not have happened without the amazing partnership 89 00:05:00,750 --> 00:05:05,588 between NASA and Department of Defense, including Hill Air Force Base, 90 00:05:05,672 --> 00:05:09,309 Dugway Proving Ground and the Utah Test and Training Range. 91 00:05:09,392 --> 00:05:11,511 And then also I'll even add Air Force. 92 00:05:11,511 --> 00:05:14,998 He's brought the aircraft here that's going to carry our 93 00:05:15,081 --> 00:05:20,169 our precious samples and some of our team members down to Houston tomorrow. 94 00:05:20,253 --> 00:05:21,504 It's just been amazing. 95 00:05:21,504 --> 00:05:25,291 And I'll also just say what you saw executed today, that precision, 96 00:05:25,291 --> 00:05:29,379 everything going just almost perfectly to plan. 97 00:05:29,462 --> 00:05:31,731 That happens because of an incredible 98 00:05:31,731 --> 00:05:34,917 team and hundreds and hundreds of people. 99 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:37,470 You'll hear from a few of those team members here. 100 00:05:37,470 --> 00:05:40,990 But I know that every person that you see is backed by hundreds of others. 101 00:05:41,057 --> 00:05:42,859 It's been an incredible accomplishment. 102 00:05:42,859 --> 00:05:45,078 And I just want to thank Dante 103 00:05:45,078 --> 00:05:48,881 and everyone, the entire team, for this incredible accomplishment. 104 00:05:48,948 --> 00:05:50,867 And then the last thing I'm just going to close out with 105 00:05:50,867 --> 00:05:54,904 is just a reminder that, you know, the spacecraft osiris-rex 106 00:05:54,987 --> 00:05:57,774 dropped off her precious sample this morning 107 00:05:57,774 --> 00:06:01,594 and then 20 minutes later embarked on a new journey. 108 00:06:01,677 --> 00:06:06,299 She's not only embarking on a new journey, but handed over to new leadership, now 109 00:06:06,382 --> 00:06:10,002 led scientific leadership by Daniella DellaGiustina 110 00:06:10,069 --> 00:06:14,707 Fantastic to see the next generation taking on this next generation mission, 111 00:06:14,791 --> 00:06:18,411 taking the spacecraft to explore another asteroid called Apophis. 112 00:06:18,528 --> 00:06:20,663 So thank you. Back to you, Karen. 113 00:06:20,663 --> 00:06:22,315 Thank you so much, Laurie. 114 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:25,068 Next up, we have Dante Lauretta, who's going to tell us 115 00:06:25,068 --> 00:06:28,071 a little bit about what it was like to be part of the recovery team. 116 00:06:28,187 --> 00:06:29,839 Thank you, Karen. 117 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:34,944 Well, today capped the end of an almost 20 year adventure for me. 118 00:06:34,977 --> 00:06:38,831 I got involved in this program in February of 2004 119 00:06:38,898 --> 00:06:43,019 when representatives from Lockheed Martin came to Tucson and said they were 120 00:06:43,102 --> 00:06:45,088 thinking up an asteroid sample return mission 121 00:06:45,088 --> 00:06:48,724 and they wanted U of A to take the scientific leadership role. 122 00:06:48,808 --> 00:06:51,711 And I was brought in as the deputy principal investigator 123 00:06:51,711 --> 00:06:54,714 under the leadership of my mentor, Professor Mike Drake. 124 00:06:54,831 --> 00:06:58,084 And I just want to think about Mike a little bit here today. 125 00:06:58,167 --> 00:07:01,254 He passed away in 2011, just four short months 126 00:07:01,254 --> 00:07:04,924 after we won the contract from NASA to fly this program. 127 00:07:05,007 --> 00:07:08,377 And I know he would be super proud and he would have loved today. 128 00:07:08,394 --> 00:07:12,849 He would have just really embraced and embarked on this amazing journey. 129 00:07:12,932 --> 00:07:14,467 When we first were talking to 130 00:07:14,467 --> 00:07:17,370 to our friends at Lockheed, it seemed like Magic Mike. 131 00:07:17,370 --> 00:07:19,522 They said, Pick an asteroid, Dante, 132 00:07:19,522 --> 00:07:23,409 and we'll bring samples back to the Earth for you to study in your laboratory. 133 00:07:23,493 --> 00:07:27,230 And I can tell you this is the end of a very long spell. 134 00:07:27,313 --> 00:07:29,816 Right. We've been casting it for a long time. 135 00:07:29,816 --> 00:07:33,152 And it was great to be part of the recovery team. 136 00:07:33,236 --> 00:07:36,172 It was pulse pounding, I'm sure, for you watching it even more 137 00:07:36,172 --> 00:07:41,611 for those of us in the helicopters waiting for that main shoot to come out. 138 00:07:41,611 --> 00:07:41,878 Right. 139 00:07:41,878 --> 00:07:45,531 We were with bated breath, making sure that we came down 140 00:07:45,531 --> 00:07:48,801 for a a nice soft landing in the Utah desert. 141 00:07:48,801 --> 00:07:49,519 And it worked. 142 00:07:49,519 --> 00:07:51,921 And it worked spectacularly well. 143 00:07:51,921 --> 00:07:55,291 I was fortunate enough to be one of the first people to lay eyes on the capsule. 144 00:07:55,291 --> 00:07:57,410 And boy, did we stick that landing. 145 00:07:57,410 --> 00:08:01,464 It was just sitting right there, you know, a few tens of feet right off 146 00:08:01,464 --> 00:08:04,467 a nice road, perfect place for the helicopters to land. 147 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:07,487 Didn't move. It didn't roll, didn't bounce. 148 00:08:07,703 --> 00:08:10,907 It just made tiny little division in the Utah soil. 149 00:08:10,923 --> 00:08:13,259 So for the environmental sampling team, that was great. 150 00:08:13,259 --> 00:08:15,661 We had to sample the area right where the capsule landed. 151 00:08:15,661 --> 00:08:17,213 We picked up some background 152 00:08:17,213 --> 00:08:20,466 sample soils just for understanding the native environment. 153 00:08:20,550 --> 00:08:24,737 The dust samples and gas samples to see if anything was coming out of the capsule. 154 00:08:24,737 --> 00:08:26,689 We don't think so because the safety engineers 155 00:08:26,689 --> 00:08:28,291 were the first ones on the scene. 156 00:08:28,291 --> 00:08:31,827 We actually couldn't approach it until they cleared it for human safety reasons. 157 00:08:31,911 --> 00:08:35,281 There was no sign of any any toxic gases, which we knew was a rare event. 158 00:08:35,281 --> 00:08:37,767 But of course, human safety always comes first. 159 00:08:37,767 --> 00:08:39,852 And that was the first check out that needed to be made. 160 00:08:39,852 --> 00:08:41,938 It was also a very clear area. 161 00:08:41,938 --> 00:08:43,673 We are in a military test range. 162 00:08:43,673 --> 00:08:47,009 There was no sign of any issues for us to operate out there. 163 00:08:47,093 --> 00:08:48,528 So we got our job done really fast. 164 00:08:48,528 --> 00:08:50,012 You know, we did a lot of rehearsals. 165 00:08:50,012 --> 00:08:52,164 We always rehearsed and practice on this team. 166 00:08:52,164 --> 00:08:56,886 That's why we always achieve these high levels of excellence. 167 00:08:56,969 --> 00:08:59,238 And I can't say I'm I couldn't be more proud. 168 00:08:59,238 --> 00:09:00,439 And just to remind you, 169 00:09:00,439 --> 00:09:04,026 not only did we bring this mission in on schedule under budget 170 00:09:04,110 --> 00:09:07,280 and delivered more science than we had even thought was possible 171 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,967 with the encounter with Bennu, but we think we've got a lot of sample 172 00:09:10,967 --> 00:09:14,720 in that in that science canister and we can't wait to crack into it. 173 00:09:14,971 --> 00:09:17,840 For me, the real science is just beginning. 174 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,928 I grew up as a laboratory chemist studying meteorites and particles 175 00:09:21,928 --> 00:09:26,015 from the Stardust Mission, which NASA brought back in 2006. 176 00:09:26,098 --> 00:09:30,903 So I really am looking forward to the next stages of this journey. 177 00:09:30,987 --> 00:09:33,539 People have asked about, you know, planetary protection. 178 00:09:33,539 --> 00:09:35,908 We did go through extensive planetary protection reviews. 179 00:09:35,908 --> 00:09:39,328 We were unrestricted Earth return because Bennu was a near-Earth asteroid, 180 00:09:39,412 --> 00:09:42,231 probably material from this asteroid has been delivered to the earth 181 00:09:42,231 --> 00:09:43,599 at some point in the past. 182 00:09:43,599 --> 00:09:47,837 It's also a very small body that's constantly exposed to ionizing radiation. 183 00:09:48,087 --> 00:09:51,624 And no lifeforms that we know of would be able to survive that kind of environment. 184 00:09:51,624 --> 00:09:54,477 So very, very low risk. 185 00:09:54,477 --> 00:09:58,097 In fact, we're more worried about Earth biology contaminating the sample. 186 00:09:58,130 --> 00:10:01,500 The key objective for me and one of the driving objectives 187 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:06,372 of this program is to try to understand how did carbon rich asteroids like Bennu 188 00:10:06,439 --> 00:10:09,091 deliver the compounds that may have led to the origin of life 189 00:10:09,091 --> 00:10:12,078 on our planet, the origin of Earth, as a habitable world. 190 00:10:12,295 --> 00:10:16,349 And so we don't want biological organisms interacting with this, 191 00:10:16,349 --> 00:10:19,769 so we plan to exclude it from any contact with bacteria 192 00:10:20,002 --> 00:10:22,972 or anything else that might compromise our scientific investigation. 193 00:10:22,972 --> 00:10:25,858 And the team at Johnson Space Center are experts at this. 194 00:10:25,858 --> 00:10:28,978 They've got a beautiful laboratory and isolation glove boxes. 195 00:10:29,178 --> 00:10:29,512 And we're going 196 00:10:29,512 --> 00:10:34,533 to start processing that sample, we hope, as early as Tuesday of next week. 197 00:10:34,617 --> 00:10:34,950 Great. 198 00:10:34,950 --> 00:10:36,836 Thank you so much, Dante. 199 00:10:36,836 --> 00:10:39,655 Next up, we have Mike Moreau, who's going to tell us a little bit 200 00:10:39,655 --> 00:10:43,442 more about entry, descent and landing. 201 00:10:43,526 --> 00:10:46,712 Yeah, So it's so amazing to be in this moment. 202 00:10:46,712 --> 00:10:50,466 It's hard to describe what it means to be in this moment. 203 00:10:50,666 --> 00:10:54,937 I've worked on this project not as long as Dante, but but a decade 204 00:10:55,021 --> 00:10:57,506 through the early development of the mission 205 00:10:57,506 --> 00:11:01,927 to the mission operations to leading the recovery team. 206 00:11:02,011 --> 00:11:05,364 I was in the control center today with my partner in crime, 207 00:11:05,364 --> 00:11:07,583 Richard Weatherspoon, from Lockheed Martin, 208 00:11:07,583 --> 00:11:11,020 and we were directing the efforts of the team and directed all the planning 209 00:11:11,087 --> 00:11:16,025 that went into that activity today and just seeing that parachute 210 00:11:16,025 --> 00:11:18,361 and seeing the capsule descending on the main parachute 211 00:11:18,361 --> 00:11:21,664 and then seeing it just sitting perfectly on the desert floor. 212 00:11:21,747 --> 00:11:24,650 Just hard to articulate what that means 213 00:11:24,650 --> 00:11:27,870 after so, so much put into this mission. 214 00:11:27,953 --> 00:11:31,407 But I want to talk a little bit about what we saw in the operations room today. 215 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:36,228 It started with the amazing job that our teammates out in Denver 216 00:11:36,445 --> 00:11:40,316 did, the Lockheed Martin and Kinetics Aerospace and Goddard, people 217 00:11:40,316 --> 00:11:44,336 that were there operating the mission and targeting that Earth entry interface. 218 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,772 So precisely so that we could come down. 219 00:11:46,772 --> 00:11:48,741 That's magic in my opinion. 220 00:11:48,741 --> 00:11:49,759 And I'm a navigator, 221 00:11:49,759 --> 00:11:53,779 but the precision with which they do that job is just incredible. 222 00:11:53,929 --> 00:11:58,601 And that's what got us to the start of today. 223 00:11:58,667 --> 00:12:00,836 Now get to our partners at the Air Force. 224 00:12:00,836 --> 00:12:04,707 One of the great things about landing in this facility is the tracking 225 00:12:04,907 --> 00:12:08,260 cameras and radars that are around this facility 226 00:12:08,327 --> 00:12:11,247 with very first signal that we had that we were on track 227 00:12:11,247 --> 00:12:14,300 was from our Air Force counterparts when they said we had radar lock 228 00:12:14,483 --> 00:12:16,135 before we even reached the radar. 229 00:12:16,135 --> 00:12:18,421 The atmospheric interface. 230 00:12:18,421 --> 00:12:19,939 So just a few moments before. 231 00:12:19,939 --> 00:12:23,359 But that was a great moment because the capsule was released 232 00:12:23,359 --> 00:12:26,362 from the spacecraft 4 hours before, coasted 233 00:12:26,479 --> 00:12:30,349 from a third of the distance to the moon to that point in the atmosphere. 234 00:12:30,349 --> 00:12:34,553 And that signal from the radar said that we were on track within a few seconds 235 00:12:34,553 --> 00:12:36,122 of where we needed to be. 236 00:12:36,122 --> 00:12:38,190 So that was a huge moment. 237 00:12:38,190 --> 00:12:40,493 Then we had aircraft, one of them 238 00:12:40,493 --> 00:12:44,163 operated by the Johnson Space Center, WB57 aircraft. 239 00:12:44,246 --> 00:12:49,068 It had infrared and optical cameras on it very soon after the radar detection, 240 00:12:49,068 --> 00:12:52,221 we started seeing signals from the WB 57 241 00:12:52,471 --> 00:12:56,492 and we were able to see the actual hypersonic reentry and the fireball 242 00:12:56,659 --> 00:12:58,711 and then track the capsule as it descended. 243 00:12:58,711 --> 00:13:01,130 And until the parachutes came out and landed on the ground. 244 00:13:01,130 --> 00:13:06,602 And you all saw that footage on the television as far as the landing goes. 245 00:13:06,685 --> 00:13:10,523 We landed a little bit to the east of our nominal landing point, 246 00:13:10,773 --> 00:13:13,559 but that's what our amazing entry, descent and landing engineers have been 247 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:15,060 telling us is going to be happening. 248 00:13:15,060 --> 00:13:18,848 They've been looking at the atmospheric density in the models for that. 249 00:13:18,931 --> 00:13:21,917 The trajectory path we would take through the atmosphere 250 00:13:21,984 --> 00:13:22,768 and they predicted 251 00:13:22,768 --> 00:13:26,705 we would be east of our nominal landing location, and that's where we landed. 252 00:13:26,789 --> 00:13:28,073 So I just want to say 253 00:13:28,073 --> 00:13:31,811 that I'm so proud to be part of this team that did this today. 254 00:13:31,877 --> 00:13:33,529 I'm proud to be part of the team 255 00:13:33,529 --> 00:13:37,333 that got us here in part of the mission operations. 256 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:40,219 We had some great challenges to overcome with this mission 257 00:13:40,219 --> 00:13:43,489 and great groups overcome great challenges. 258 00:13:43,489 --> 00:13:45,291 And it's been a pleasure 259 00:13:45,291 --> 00:13:50,913 to work with some of these amazing teams in my ten years working on this mission. 260 00:13:50,996 --> 00:13:52,464 Thank you so much, Mike. 261 00:13:52,464 --> 00:13:55,401 Our next speaker is Tim Priser with Lockheed 262 00:13:55,401 --> 00:13:59,488 Martin to talk a little bit about the capsule itself. 263 00:13:59,572 --> 00:14:02,575 You know, this capsule 264 00:14:02,808 --> 00:14:05,811 literally has a personality in it. 265 00:14:05,961 --> 00:14:09,965 It understood the assignment. 266 00:14:10,049 --> 00:14:12,001 And I think back 267 00:14:12,001 --> 00:14:16,255 I think your colleague, Peter Smith and I got to work on Mars, Phenix 268 00:14:16,255 --> 00:14:20,309 and that that little lander understood the assignment, too, 269 00:14:20,392 --> 00:14:24,680 that the scientists come up with these grand questions 270 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,100 that they're striving to get answers for. 271 00:14:28,167 --> 00:14:31,420 And we as engineers, 272 00:14:31,487 --> 00:14:34,557 for goodness sakes, it's the best job an engineer 273 00:14:34,557 --> 00:14:40,329 could ever have to help a scientist go gather this knowledge. 274 00:14:40,412 --> 00:14:42,932 It's just so thrilling and rewarding 275 00:14:42,932 --> 00:14:46,986 and so much so that we we understand the question 276 00:14:47,069 --> 00:14:50,706 and then we can design a special spacecraft, 277 00:14:50,789 --> 00:14:55,861 Like OSIRIS, to go collect the information and the answers. 278 00:14:55,945 --> 00:14:59,899 And like Phoenix, like I said, I think she understood the assignment, too, 279 00:14:59,899 --> 00:15:04,653 because Peter Smith wanted to prove that there was water ice on Mars. 280 00:15:04,737 --> 00:15:08,874 And bless her heart, just before she touched down, she used the thrusters 281 00:15:08,874 --> 00:15:11,877 to blow all the regolith off and say, Look, there it is. 282 00:15:12,111 --> 00:15:13,462 There's your eyes. Peter. 283 00:15:13,462 --> 00:15:18,851 Well, today, Osiris Rex not only 4 hours before entry 284 00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:21,203 did she understand the assignment 285 00:15:21,203 --> 00:15:25,791 and put this SRC on a path to hit an entry interface 286 00:15:26,008 --> 00:15:29,662 that needed to be so precise that you didn't slip out of the atmosphere 287 00:15:29,878 --> 00:15:33,532 or you hit it too deep and you burned up before you had a chance to get 288 00:15:33,532 --> 00:15:35,317 to the ground. 289 00:15:35,401 --> 00:15:36,352 So she did that 290 00:15:36,352 --> 00:15:40,589 flawlessly with aplomb, and then she immediately turned her 291 00:15:40,589 --> 00:15:45,711 attention on Apophis and changed her name on the back of her jersey. 292 00:15:45,711 --> 00:15:49,481 And she's now OSIRIS-Apex. 293 00:15:49,548 --> 00:15:52,217 By the way, we scored the first touchdown today 294 00:15:52,217 --> 00:15:56,772 before any of the other NFL teams that I just want to put that on the record. 295 00:15:56,839 --> 00:15:59,758 But back to the SRC. 296 00:15:59,758 --> 00:16:01,076 She came through the atmosphere. 297 00:16:01,076 --> 00:16:04,863 She knew her job was to get to the ground. 298 00:16:04,947 --> 00:16:09,251 She also thought it would be nice and kind to land close to a road, 299 00:16:09,318 --> 00:16:12,788 you know, heat shield down back, shell up 300 00:16:12,871 --> 00:16:16,925 basically with a little sign that said Dante, 301 00:16:17,009 --> 00:16:19,461 please hug me. 302 00:16:19,461 --> 00:16:24,283 It. And it was so she made it so easy for us 303 00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:28,087 that these designs are are so robust 304 00:16:28,170 --> 00:16:30,923 that as she's coming through the atmosphere, you know, 305 00:16:30,923 --> 00:16:34,443 whether or not the atmosphere was more dense than it should have been 306 00:16:34,526 --> 00:16:39,832 or expected to be or, you know, some something in our sequence 307 00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:44,420 may or may not have behaved itself exactly the way we expected it to. 308 00:16:44,570 --> 00:16:48,941 But the subsequent things in the sequence made up for the fact 309 00:16:49,008 --> 00:16:52,711 that parachute came out and we touched down as soft as a dove. 310 00:16:52,795 --> 00:16:54,179 It was just beautiful. 311 00:16:54,179 --> 00:17:00,185 And you can see the excitement not only on the scientists team, 312 00:17:00,269 --> 00:17:02,304 but when they showed that 313 00:17:02,304 --> 00:17:07,443 the mission support area back in Littleton and the celebration in that room, 314 00:17:07,526 --> 00:17:11,447 that that's when it becomes real, because the thousands of hours 315 00:17:11,447 --> 00:17:16,101 that all of these people spent over the decade or more. 316 00:17:16,101 --> 00:17:18,887 Right. Years together, 317 00:17:18,887 --> 00:17:23,058 they just naturally build relationships that lasts last a lifetime. 318 00:17:23,075 --> 00:17:27,663 They watch each other's children grow up over that time of a timeframe. 319 00:17:27,663 --> 00:17:31,233 And so their children were 320 00:17:31,316 --> 00:17:34,319 excited to family and friends. 321 00:17:34,369 --> 00:17:40,242 We're back there and it's just a special, special occasion. 322 00:17:40,309 --> 00:17:43,562 And in this case, when we land on Mars, 323 00:17:43,645 --> 00:17:47,666 we don't have a lot of opportunity to go collect the parachute, 324 00:17:47,883 --> 00:17:52,137 put it in a bag and analyze it, grab the avionics 325 00:17:52,137 --> 00:17:57,092 so we can go troubleshoot and or understand how well they behaved. 326 00:17:57,292 --> 00:18:00,813 We have our hands on the heat shield and the back show, 327 00:18:00,896 --> 00:18:04,800 and we can prove that our our prediction, our models 328 00:18:04,883 --> 00:18:09,154 either were spot on or we need to adjust them. 329 00:18:09,238 --> 00:18:11,457 EDL reconstruction is a real thing. 330 00:18:11,457 --> 00:18:15,761 Every one of us, whether it's Mars or Earth, 331 00:18:15,828 --> 00:18:16,795 that's the first thing. 332 00:18:16,795 --> 00:18:18,263 As an engineer that we want to do. 333 00:18:18,263 --> 00:18:19,948 We want to collect the data, 334 00:18:19,948 --> 00:18:23,469 collect the hardware if we can, which we can in this case, 335 00:18:23,552 --> 00:18:26,722 and understand how well our models are going to predict 336 00:18:26,939 --> 00:18:30,509 the next one. 337 00:18:30,592 --> 00:18:34,012 I can watch this video from today over and over and over. 338 00:18:34,046 --> 00:18:36,532 It was just a beautiful thing. 339 00:18:36,532 --> 00:18:38,567 Thank you so much, Tim. 340 00:18:38,567 --> 00:18:43,472 Our final panelist is Eileen Stansbery, who is going to talk a little bit 341 00:18:43,472 --> 00:18:47,810 about what happens to the samples after they were recovered of. 342 00:18:48,026 --> 00:18:49,678 Thank you very much. 343 00:18:49,678 --> 00:18:52,731 These samples are an amazing 344 00:18:52,764 --> 00:18:55,767 treasure trove for generations, 345 00:18:55,918 --> 00:19:01,857 but we currently have a team of spacecraft engineers, 346 00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:05,861 scientists and curatorial personnel 347 00:19:05,928 --> 00:19:09,331 working right now in a temporary clean room here at Dugway 348 00:19:09,531 --> 00:19:15,587 to make the sample capsule ready for transport down to the Johnson 349 00:19:15,587 --> 00:19:19,808 Space Center so that we can open it up and reveal this treasure. 350 00:19:19,892 --> 00:19:24,546 The the entry into the 351 00:19:24,630 --> 00:19:29,618 clean room has been 352 00:19:29,701 --> 00:19:31,637 has gone extremely well. 353 00:19:31,637 --> 00:19:36,091 They're processing the capsule, 354 00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:40,495 removing portions of the canister 355 00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:45,968 so that they can get a continuous flow of nitrogen 356 00:19:46,051 --> 00:19:50,689 into the sample canister or to ensure 357 00:19:50,689 --> 00:19:55,944 that there is no contamination from Earth's atmosphere into that canister 358 00:19:56,178 --> 00:20:00,232 and maintain the pristineity of the these samples 359 00:20:00,449 --> 00:20:04,119 so that the science team, 360 00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:07,189 200 plus people 361 00:20:07,222 --> 00:20:12,010 all over the world can start studying these samples. 362 00:20:12,077 --> 00:20:16,932 Once these samples are taken to the Johnson Space Center, 363 00:20:16,999 --> 00:20:19,968 we'll be able to start 364 00:20:19,968 --> 00:20:25,107 removing them, denigrating the the science canister, 365 00:20:25,190 --> 00:20:27,292 evaluating those samples 366 00:20:27,292 --> 00:20:31,380 and providing them to the scientific community. 367 00:20:31,463 --> 00:20:35,167 I think that there's a quick video here 368 00:20:35,250 --> 00:20:38,120 of taking that's 369 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:41,123 the the capsule into the clean room 370 00:20:41,273 --> 00:20:45,661 and being able to see fit 371 00:20:45,661 --> 00:20:51,383 and make sure that we retain a uncontaminated sample 372 00:20:51,617 --> 00:20:56,838 as the stewards of the scientific integrity of these staples. 373 00:20:57,055 --> 00:21:01,877 The curatorial team at the Johnson Space Center is working hand in glove 374 00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:07,349 with the spacecraft engineering team and the science team 375 00:21:07,549 --> 00:21:14,072 to ensure that we are processing and handling this 376 00:21:14,156 --> 00:21:15,857 sample return capsule 377 00:21:15,857 --> 00:21:18,860 in a measured, methodical, 378 00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:22,080 well-choreographed sequence. 379 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,801 And I'm happy to report 380 00:21:25,884 --> 00:21:30,622 that the sample canister 381 00:21:30,839 --> 00:21:35,260 was put on purge today a little bit before 1:00. 382 00:21:35,327 --> 00:21:40,716 And so we now have a a continuous flow of nitrogen 383 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:43,769 within that science canister, 384 00:21:43,769 --> 00:21:48,223 and we are well on the way to 385 00:21:48,290 --> 00:21:51,877 getting that science canister ready for transport 386 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,179 down to the Johnson Space Center. 387 00:21:54,179 --> 00:21:58,767 And the the the support that we are providing 388 00:21:58,767 --> 00:22:01,937 to the science and engineering teams 389 00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:05,991 today is documenting the handling, 390 00:22:06,208 --> 00:22:09,728 ensuring that we understood and the 391 00:22:09,811 --> 00:22:14,249 the environment that the science canister 392 00:22:14,249 --> 00:22:17,853 is in and 393 00:22:17,936 --> 00:22:21,273 making way for 394 00:22:21,356 --> 00:22:25,627 the next generation of understanding 395 00:22:25,711 --> 00:22:29,081 a new world. 396 00:22:29,147 --> 00:22:31,967 Thank you so much for those in the room, 397 00:22:31,967 --> 00:22:36,421 Do you know that those videos were showing up on the broadcast? 398 00:22:36,421 --> 00:22:37,706 If there are any more 399 00:22:37,706 --> 00:22:42,477 some of these TV screens in the back, you can turn around and try and see them. 400 00:22:42,561 --> 00:22:45,380 But for now, we are moving the questions. 401 00:22:45,380 --> 00:22:49,401 We are going to take a few in the room and then we will also go to the phone line. 402 00:22:49,401 --> 00:22:53,088 If you are on the phone, you can press star one to get in the queue 403 00:22:53,271 --> 00:22:54,873 and we do have a microphone. 404 00:22:54,873 --> 00:22:58,660 So if I call on you, please wait for the mic. Alex Let's see 405 00:22:58,727 --> 00:23:05,467 the answer right here. 406 00:23:05,550 --> 00:23:06,301 Hi, Alex. 407 00:23:06,301 --> 00:23:08,070 With the nature for Dr. 408 00:23:08,070 --> 00:23:11,073 Stansberry, is there anything. Else you can say about sort of the condition 409 00:23:11,073 --> 00:23:11,940 of the capsule on the. 410 00:23:11,940 --> 00:23:15,177 Exterior, what it looks like when you open it up, Anything about 411 00:23:15,177 --> 00:23:19,998 patterns of wear, not erosion, but just more about the physical condition 412 00:23:20,148 --> 00:23:23,769 as you were going through it? Um, 413 00:23:23,852 --> 00:23:25,670 when they took the back show off, 414 00:23:25,670 --> 00:23:29,608 it was extremely clean on the inside. 415 00:23:29,691 --> 00:23:36,481 It was remarkably similar to 416 00:23:36,565 --> 00:23:39,084 prior to launch. 417 00:23:39,084 --> 00:23:43,171 Makes you wonder, did we actually open it up at some point? 418 00:23:43,171 --> 00:23:46,108 But I know we opened it up. 419 00:23:46,108 --> 00:23:49,077 I saw it in Tagsam and, 420 00:23:49,077 --> 00:23:54,699 and it was beautiful, clean 421 00:23:54,783 --> 00:23:56,635 and extraordinary 422 00:23:56,635 --> 00:24:00,755 experience of seeing that 423 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:06,244 this the spacecraft itself must have 424 00:24:06,328 --> 00:24:09,047 worked extraordinarily well, 425 00:24:09,047 --> 00:24:15,170 that all of the the engineering that went in to ensure 426 00:24:15,353 --> 00:24:23,411 that the science canister was going to remain clean, did their job. 427 00:24:23,478 --> 00:24:23,995 All right. 428 00:24:23,995 --> 00:24:25,730 Another question in the room. 429 00:24:25,730 --> 00:24:29,518 This gentleman in the green shirt here, please do identify yourself 430 00:24:29,601 --> 00:24:34,873 and you have a mike coming over your shoulder here. 431 00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:35,540 Thanks very much. 432 00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:38,543 It's Ivan Semeniuk with the Globe and Mail in in Canada. 433 00:24:38,627 --> 00:24:42,797 I just want to follow up on what Tim Priser said about how maybe 434 00:24:42,797 --> 00:24:46,101 some things didn't go quite as expected, but then other things compensated. 435 00:24:46,101 --> 00:24:47,252 It all worked out. 436 00:24:47,252 --> 00:24:49,321 What were those things that didn't go as expected? 437 00:24:49,321 --> 00:24:53,525 And can you give us a sense of what some of the surprises may have been? 438 00:24:53,608 --> 00:24:56,878 I can tell you what we expected to happen. 439 00:24:56,962 --> 00:25:01,867 If you remember, the peak G is about 32 G’s sensed. 440 00:25:01,950 --> 00:25:06,021 on the way up that Paul said at a 3 G level, we actually armed some triggers 441 00:25:06,021 --> 00:25:07,939 to start the sequence of events. 442 00:25:07,939 --> 00:25:12,360 We experienced the peak 32 G pulse and then we passed back through that three 443 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:18,333 G trigger on the way back down and that initiates the sequence of events. 444 00:25:18,416 --> 00:25:19,067 11 seconds 445 00:25:19,067 --> 00:25:22,888 later, the drogue chute is is commanded to deploy. 446 00:25:22,888 --> 00:25:27,359 And then 360 seconds after the drogue, the main chute deploys. 447 00:25:27,442 --> 00:25:31,863 What I can tell you, because we all saw it, the main chute did deploy. 448 00:25:31,947 --> 00:25:35,617 It was difficult to see in in maybe 449 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:39,120 with our EDL reconstruction in the data that we still need to go collect, 450 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:41,756 we can understand some of the upper atmosphere 451 00:25:41,756 --> 00:25:44,242 in the hypersonic flight regime. 452 00:25:44,242 --> 00:25:47,128 But at the end of the day, 453 00:25:47,128 --> 00:25:50,131 when that main chute deployed, it 454 00:25:50,365 --> 00:25:54,236 basically corrected any of the sins that may have happened 455 00:25:54,236 --> 00:25:57,923 ahead of it because, you know, it was beautiful as on time. 456 00:25:57,923 --> 00:26:03,395 We hung under the chute for five and a half minutes, just like we expected 457 00:26:03,478 --> 00:26:05,630 and just like I said, touched down like a feather. 458 00:26:05,630 --> 00:26:07,249 I'd just like to clarify that. 459 00:26:07,249 --> 00:26:07,916 I mean. 460 00:26:07,916 --> 00:26:13,388 Possibly the drogue chute did not deploy or is it not clear yet? Yes. 461 00:26:13,471 --> 00:26:17,676 So we don't know if the drogue shoot deployed 462 00:26:17,759 --> 00:26:19,978 because we don't know if we can see that in the imagery. 463 00:26:19,978 --> 00:26:22,547 The imagery that we saw was not positive. 464 00:26:22,547 --> 00:26:25,166 But we do know is that the main parachute came out. 465 00:26:25,166 --> 00:26:27,502 It came out a little bit earlier than we expected. 466 00:26:27,502 --> 00:26:29,638 But that time difference 467 00:26:29,638 --> 00:26:33,575 was within the family of variation that we expect from the atmosphere. 468 00:26:33,658 --> 00:26:36,661 So so that is not really a surprise to us. 469 00:26:36,711 --> 00:26:38,697 You know, Tim is talking about analyzing all the data. 470 00:26:38,697 --> 00:26:42,233 One of the great things about landing here is we have all this photo documentation 471 00:26:42,233 --> 00:26:45,170 from four different camera systems that were around. 472 00:26:45,170 --> 00:26:46,771 We also have the WB imagery. 473 00:26:46,771 --> 00:26:48,139 We don't have that available yet. 474 00:26:48,139 --> 00:26:49,891 We have not been able to look at that. 475 00:26:49,891 --> 00:26:53,511 I can tell you that I could not see whether or not the drogue was deployed 476 00:26:53,511 --> 00:26:57,048 in the imagery that I could had available in real time in the ops room. 477 00:26:57,198 --> 00:27:00,785 That's not necessarily an indication that it did not deploy, 478 00:27:00,869 --> 00:27:03,505 but I can't confirm that I saw it in imagery. 479 00:27:03,505 --> 00:27:05,073 But what we're going to do is what we always do 480 00:27:05,073 --> 00:27:07,008 is go back and look at this in great detail. 481 00:27:07,008 --> 00:27:10,011 And that's one of the advantages of landing here, is we got a ton of data 482 00:27:10,078 --> 00:27:11,246 and we're going to go back and look at that 483 00:27:11,246 --> 00:27:13,014 and we'll reconstruct exactly what happened. 484 00:27:13,014 --> 00:27:17,769 But the bottom line is we landed that when the main parachutes came out. 485 00:27:17,852 --> 00:27:20,071 That was the moment that I was waiting for. 486 00:27:20,071 --> 00:27:24,909 And and that for me was success. 487 00:27:24,993 --> 00:27:28,580 I knew that we had done we were were successful. 488 00:27:28,580 --> 00:27:30,231 And we were going to get that sample today. 489 00:27:30,231 --> 00:27:33,001 And that the simple fact of the matter is the drogue 490 00:27:33,001 --> 00:27:36,304 parachute deploys the main parachute. 491 00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:39,908 So just by the way, that is designed, 492 00:27:39,991 --> 00:27:42,143 the drogue 493 00:27:42,143 --> 00:27:44,029 did deploy 494 00:27:44,029 --> 00:27:45,797 the drogue is on top of the main parachute. 495 00:27:45,797 --> 00:27:47,198 So all had to come out. 496 00:27:47,198 --> 00:27:50,185 So that that's where I say the robustness 497 00:27:50,185 --> 00:27:53,571 of this design, you kind of rolled itself up 498 00:27:53,571 --> 00:27:56,941 into a ball and said, I'm going to get this done, and I got it done. 499 00:27:57,008 --> 00:27:57,959 Thank you so much. 500 00:27:57,959 --> 00:27:58,610 We're now going to go 501 00:27:58,610 --> 00:28:01,613 to two questions on the phone and then I will come back to the room. 502 00:28:01,863 --> 00:28:09,070 Our first question on the phone is from Jeff Foust with Space News. 503 00:28:09,137 --> 00:28:11,072 And good afternoon. 504 00:28:11,072 --> 00:28:12,107 Question for Mike Moreau. 505 00:28:12,107 --> 00:28:15,326 You mentioned that the landing site was a little bit east of the center. 506 00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:17,929 How far off from the center was the landing? 507 00:28:17,929 --> 00:28:21,266 And was that entirely do the atmospheric variations or anything 508 00:28:21,266 --> 00:28:24,786 that might have happened with the parachute timing 509 00:28:24,869 --> 00:28:28,323 that caused the, uh, that caused that thing? 510 00:28:28,406 --> 00:28:30,892 Um, I'll talk a little bit about this because it's 511 00:28:30,892 --> 00:28:33,378 really part of the amazing work that the team did. 512 00:28:33,378 --> 00:28:37,132 Our ellipse, our final ellipse that we were looking at 513 00:28:37,132 --> 00:28:40,952 today was something on the order of 12 by 30 kilometers. 514 00:28:40,952 --> 00:28:43,221 It's not exactly, but that's approximate. 515 00:28:43,221 --> 00:28:45,473 So that's a lot smaller than the planning ellipse we'd have, 516 00:28:45,473 --> 00:28:48,760 because as we got closer and closer, things have shrunk down. 517 00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:52,497 Where we landed was probably eight kilometers or so to the east. 518 00:28:52,497 --> 00:28:57,218 I don't have the exact number, but it was on the eastern side of that ellipse. 519 00:28:57,302 --> 00:29:01,189 But our EDL team had been telling us for the last week or so they expected us 520 00:29:01,189 --> 00:29:04,192 to land to the East Side Ellipse and that was based on 521 00:29:04,342 --> 00:29:07,729 looking at the actual forecasted atmospheric density 522 00:29:07,946 --> 00:29:11,733 and wind speeds and things would take us to the east. 523 00:29:11,816 --> 00:29:13,818 So we were really I was really excited. 524 00:29:13,818 --> 00:29:16,621 I sent them a little screenshot of where I thought the landing was 525 00:29:16,621 --> 00:29:19,491 As soon as it was there, because I was like, Wow, you guys were great. 526 00:29:19,491 --> 00:29:22,227 You told me exactly where it was going to land and that's where it ended up, so... 527 00:29:22,227 --> 00:29:26,998 I think you may have won the pool, by the way. 528 00:29:27,081 --> 00:29:28,500 All right, Thank you very much. 529 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,803 The next question from the phone line is from Bill Harwood 530 00:29:31,803 --> 00:29:35,173 with CBS News. 531 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,243 Hey, thank you very much and congratulations, everyone. 532 00:29:38,343 --> 00:29:39,110 Two quick questions. 533 00:29:39,110 --> 00:29:42,664 One for Tim, just making sure I understand what you were just telling us. 534 00:29:42,747 --> 00:29:45,150 Are you saying the drogue definitely deployed, but 535 00:29:45,150 --> 00:29:48,419 you don't know if it inflated or you just didn't see it visually? 536 00:29:48,503 --> 00:29:51,873 And for Dante, I'm just wondering what went through your mind 537 00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:53,007 the moment you heard 538 00:29:53,007 --> 00:29:56,010 that the main chute had deployed or maybe you saw that with your own eyes. 539 00:29:56,010 --> 00:29:57,529 I mean, that must have been 540 00:29:57,529 --> 00:30:00,482 an amazing moment for you after all the years you put into this. 541 00:30:00,482 --> 00:30:01,850 Thanks. You go first. 542 00:30:01,850 --> 00:30:02,300 All right. 543 00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:05,453 Yeah, but we were in the helicopter waiting, 544 00:30:05,453 --> 00:30:10,692 and so all we got was telemetry from our range control officer here at UTTR. 545 00:30:10,758 --> 00:30:13,111 So I didn't have all the cool video and things like that 546 00:30:13,111 --> 00:30:14,128 everybody else was seeing here. 547 00:30:14,128 --> 00:30:16,848 So I was really trying to hear through helicopter noise 548 00:30:16,848 --> 00:30:21,269 and we heard passing through 100,000 feet, passing through 60,000 feet. 549 00:30:21,269 --> 00:30:23,488 And I was getting a little worried for sure. 550 00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:24,989 I knew things were supposed to be happening 551 00:30:24,989 --> 00:30:27,208 on a nominal timeline, that I wasn't getting call outs. 552 00:30:27,208 --> 00:30:29,961 But again, we could just have radio dropouts there. 553 00:30:29,961 --> 00:30:34,282 And then we heard main chute detected, and I literally broke into tears. 554 00:30:34,282 --> 00:30:37,685 I mean, and I probably can do it right now just thinking about it, because 555 00:30:37,769 --> 00:30:41,005 that was the moment I knew we made it home. 556 00:30:41,005 --> 00:30:43,525 And, you know, I'm weary at this point. 557 00:30:43,525 --> 00:30:47,512 I've been thinking about this and focusing on it, and all of my energy 558 00:30:47,512 --> 00:30:50,698 and all my will has gone into making this thing a success. 559 00:30:50,782 --> 00:30:53,785 And I knew the moment the chute opened, that was it. 560 00:30:53,868 --> 00:30:55,587 We knew what to do. From that point forward. 561 00:30:55,587 --> 00:31:01,676 There was no surprises left, and it was overwhelming relief, gratitude, 562 00:31:01,676 --> 00:31:05,163 pride, awe, and really trying to convince myself 563 00:31:05,163 --> 00:31:07,498 that I wasn't dreaming that it was actually happening, 564 00:31:07,498 --> 00:31:08,483 that the chute was open, 565 00:31:08,483 --> 00:31:12,337 that the capsule was coming down, that we got that science treasure in hand 566 00:31:12,420 --> 00:31:14,973 and it's the end of a journey and the beginning of a new one, 567 00:31:14,973 --> 00:31:18,893 because we're going into the atomic realm, we're going into the mineralogy, 568 00:31:18,893 --> 00:31:22,113 the chemistry of the organics and the history of the solar system, 569 00:31:22,113 --> 00:31:24,716 which is what I signed up for all those years ago, 570 00:31:24,716 --> 00:31:27,118 is to do the laboratory investigation on this material. 571 00:31:27,118 --> 00:31:31,556 So I'm getting really excited about getting into the lab and really digging 572 00:31:31,556 --> 00:31:35,443 into these samples and answering all the questions that have come up 573 00:31:35,510 --> 00:31:38,963 before we launch and especially from our encounter with Asteroid BENNU. 574 00:31:38,963 --> 00:31:40,281 A lot of surprises there. 575 00:31:40,281 --> 00:31:42,567 A lot of new science ideas came out of that, 576 00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:48,590 and that's driving our sample analysis plan right now. 577 00:31:48,673 --> 00:31:50,608 And Mike. 578 00:31:50,608 --> 00:31:52,277 About the drogue. 579 00:31:52,277 --> 00:31:56,814 And relatively the parachute deploy that we the clarity of the videos 580 00:31:56,814 --> 00:32:01,769 that we do have and have had a chance to look at, especially the high speed one 581 00:32:01,853 --> 00:32:06,507 coincidentally, is very clear at about the time that parachute deployed. 582 00:32:06,691 --> 00:32:09,527 And we can see the drogue chute, pull it, deploy it. 583 00:32:09,527 --> 00:32:13,648 So we know that drogue chute was out and it deployed the main chute 584 00:32:13,731 --> 00:32:15,149 at that point in time. 585 00:32:15,149 --> 00:32:18,886 What we need to do is continue to comb through the information, the data, 586 00:32:18,886 --> 00:32:24,092 the video that we do have, just to see if we can understand how much time 587 00:32:24,208 --> 00:32:28,896 ahead of that point we can confirm or or not 588 00:32:28,980 --> 00:32:32,817 whether or not that drogue was out. 589 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:34,168 Thank you so much. 590 00:32:34,168 --> 00:32:36,838 We have two people who have had their hands up for a while, 591 00:32:36,838 --> 00:32:39,624 this gentleman here, and then we'll go to the gentleman right behind him. 592 00:32:39,624 --> 00:32:42,877 And please identify yourselves. Yes, 593 00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:43,411 Thank you. 594 00:32:43,411 --> 00:32:46,798 And congratulations, Chris Cokinos with Astronomy Magazine. 595 00:32:46,881 --> 00:32:48,916 The two part question for you, Dante. 596 00:32:48,916 --> 00:32:51,569 One scientific and one personal. 597 00:32:51,569 --> 00:32:54,572 Is there anything that you can tell from 598 00:32:54,689 --> 00:32:59,210 how the sample return canister was behaving? 599 00:32:59,210 --> 00:33:01,612 I guess you would say as you were moving it 600 00:33:01,612 --> 00:33:05,333 or the nitrogen flow that might tell you anything about the status of the sample 601 00:33:05,333 --> 00:33:09,387 inside you had mentioned before, it might be just highly pulverized. 602 00:33:09,487 --> 00:33:11,122 Is there any any sense 603 00:33:11,122 --> 00:33:14,342 of that at this point or you just have to wait until you open it 604 00:33:14,425 --> 00:33:18,296 and then, like you said, you were weary when, when and 605 00:33:18,296 --> 00:33:22,050 where do you get a chance to just like, I don't know, take a hike in the desert. 606 00:33:22,133 --> 00:33:23,334 Go, go in the Tucson. 607 00:33:23,334 --> 00:33:27,321 When do you get a chance to just, like, take a breath and reflect 608 00:33:27,321 --> 00:33:30,842 and kind of rejuvenate a little bit, thinking. 609 00:33:30,925 --> 00:33:34,412 So I we don't have any information about the nature of the returning sample 610 00:33:34,412 --> 00:33:35,730 at this point. 611 00:33:35,730 --> 00:33:37,465 This capsule weighs 50 kilograms. 612 00:33:37,465 --> 00:33:39,867 We think we have 250 grams of sample inside there. 613 00:33:39,867 --> 00:33:41,486 So you really wouldn't be able to tell anything 614 00:33:41,486 --> 00:33:43,921 and they wouldn't let me shake it like a kid in Christmas 615 00:33:43,921 --> 00:33:45,890 trying to see what I can hear inside there yet. 616 00:33:45,890 --> 00:33:50,311 So and they probably won't let me do that, right. I mean 617 00:33:50,395 --> 00:33:53,431 so I have to be patient and I'm and I'm really exercising patience. 618 00:33:53,431 --> 00:33:57,752 I understand we need to go methodically, systematically through the hardware. 619 00:33:57,752 --> 00:33:59,754 We have a very well defined procedure. 620 00:33:59,754 --> 00:34:04,375 The curation team knows the importance of getting sample out to the science 621 00:34:04,559 --> 00:34:08,513 as quickly as possible while maintaining the integrity of the collection. 622 00:34:08,513 --> 00:34:10,131 And I'm fully on board with that. 623 00:34:10,131 --> 00:34:13,434 Osiris-rex is about the science, but it's also about the legacy. 624 00:34:13,434 --> 00:34:15,386 And the legacy is that long term collection. 625 00:34:15,386 --> 00:34:17,605 And we work hand in hand together as science and curation 626 00:34:17,605 --> 00:34:21,576 to make sure that both of those are achieved in a timely manner. 627 00:34:21,659 --> 00:34:23,928 In terms of when I get to relax, that's a good question. 628 00:34:23,928 --> 00:34:25,113 We've got a busy week ahead of us. 629 00:34:25,113 --> 00:34:28,699 We're flying to Houston tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn, so not tomorrow. 630 00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:31,702 And then Tuesday morning we hope we get that canister open 631 00:34:31,919 --> 00:34:35,490 and I expect we'll see some dust and we have a plan to sample that dust 632 00:34:35,490 --> 00:34:39,961 and get into the science instruments at JSC right away, just to say, 633 00:34:40,044 --> 00:34:42,830 did we bring back what we thought or is it something completely different? 634 00:34:42,830 --> 00:34:44,999 And knowing Bennu, it might be a little both, right? 635 00:34:44,999 --> 00:34:47,218 So I can't wait to see that 636 00:34:47,218 --> 00:34:51,239 I have a big party planned on October 14th in downtown Tucson. 637 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,007 The whole city is celebrating with us. 638 00:34:53,007 --> 00:34:54,742 Mayor Romero of Tucson declared 639 00:34:54,742 --> 00:34:59,614 today Osiris-rex day, by the way, Thank you, Mayor Romero, for that. And 640 00:34:59,697 --> 00:35:01,165 so I think October 14th, 641 00:35:01,165 --> 00:35:04,168 we should have pretty good idea of what the nature of the collection is. 642 00:35:04,218 --> 00:35:08,005 We should be at the final stages of allocating the first major masses 643 00:35:08,005 --> 00:35:09,407 to the science team. 644 00:35:09,407 --> 00:35:12,760 And yeah, we're going to throw down. 645 00:35:12,827 --> 00:35:15,947 Fantastic this don't know it a little bit closer here. 646 00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:17,181 This gentleman right here. 647 00:35:17,181 --> 00:35:18,950 Thank you. Please identify yourself. 648 00:35:18,950 --> 00:35:20,101 Thank you. 649 00:35:20,101 --> 00:35:21,452 David Brown, The New Yorker. 650 00:35:21,452 --> 00:35:25,439 Dante congratulated to you and the team for an extraordinary achievement today. 651 00:35:25,523 --> 00:35:27,358 Dr. Glaze, 652 00:35:27,358 --> 00:35:30,361 I have a question about how a government shutdown 653 00:35:30,411 --> 00:35:33,531 might affect OSIRIS-Apex and 654 00:35:33,531 --> 00:35:35,399 Whether any of the sample. 655 00:35:35,399 --> 00:35:41,222 That was collected today might get out to laboratories before things go wrong. 656 00:35:41,305 --> 00:35:42,907 Now, these are these are great question. 657 00:35:42,907 --> 00:35:45,910 It's certainly something that's on the top of many people's minds 658 00:35:46,077 --> 00:35:49,080 at this point as we near the end of the fiscal year. 659 00:35:49,163 --> 00:35:52,800 And so I'll address the first question first about Apex. 660 00:35:52,884 --> 00:35:54,051 As in the past, 661 00:35:54,051 --> 00:35:58,139 when there is a government shutdown, we've been through this many times before. 662 00:35:58,222 --> 00:36:01,042 All of our operating missions get accepted. 663 00:36:01,042 --> 00:36:03,411 We know that they are 664 00:36:03,411 --> 00:36:07,532 incredibly valuable assets and so we generally get an exception 665 00:36:07,532 --> 00:36:12,270 for that to protect protect property, which they are. 666 00:36:12,270 --> 00:36:17,592 And so Apex will continue operations as as normal. 667 00:36:17,658 --> 00:36:19,977 As far as the samples, 668 00:36:19,977 --> 00:36:22,847 we are committed to this process 669 00:36:22,847 --> 00:36:26,484 that Dante mentioned and ensuring that those samples 670 00:36:26,484 --> 00:36:31,055 are kept secure and safe for posterity. 671 00:36:31,138 --> 00:36:33,441 And so we will assure that they're safe. 672 00:36:33,441 --> 00:36:38,763 There may be some delay, a little bit of delay in the science analysis 673 00:36:38,846 --> 00:36:41,732 as we as soon as they're they're safe, we will, 674 00:36:41,732 --> 00:36:45,152 you know, make sure that we step back and do this where we're told to do, 675 00:36:45,152 --> 00:36:48,489 but we will assure that they're safe. 676 00:36:48,573 --> 00:36:49,156 Fantastic. 677 00:36:49,156 --> 00:36:51,809 We didn't take one more from the floor. 678 00:36:51,809 --> 00:36:56,130 And I'm sorry there are so many people, but I believe right there in the back, 679 00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:58,382 they have their hand up for a while and then we will switch back 680 00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:01,168 to the phone lines before coming. 681 00:37:01,168 --> 00:37:03,738 Good afternoon. Thank you all for joining us. 682 00:37:03,738 --> 00:37:05,990 My name is Spencer. I'm with Fox 13 here in Utah. 683 00:37:05,990 --> 00:37:07,375 Welcome to Utah. 684 00:37:07,375 --> 00:37:10,278 Glad you liked it here. And glad Cyrus. 685 00:37:10,278 --> 00:37:11,913 Liked it here as well. 686 00:37:11,913 --> 00:37:15,499 My question is for anyone who wants to answer it, and I believe someone. 687 00:37:15,499 --> 00:37:18,319 Mentioned the Osiris Apex mission. 688 00:37:18,319 --> 00:37:21,022 Kind of handing that to the next generation. 689 00:37:21,022 --> 00:37:23,040 How important is. It for. Things like. 690 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:27,595 This to inspire even the generation after that to get involved in. 691 00:37:27,595 --> 00:37:28,579 STEM and. 692 00:37:28,579 --> 00:37:32,099 Get involved in wanting to explore outer space? 693 00:37:32,183 --> 00:37:35,553 I'll start off by saying, Yeah. So 694 00:37:35,636 --> 00:37:38,456 I think Osiris-rex is an excellent 695 00:37:38,456 --> 00:37:42,393 example of the inspirational value of these kinds of activities. 696 00:37:42,476 --> 00:37:45,446 The reason why we should be investing our taxpayer dollars 697 00:37:45,446 --> 00:37:48,599 in these missions of exploration, of course, the science is fantastic. 698 00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:52,253 The engineering is beyond amazing, but the inspirational value 699 00:37:52,253 --> 00:37:55,256 is really where the long term payoff comes from these. 700 00:37:55,406 --> 00:37:59,877 I started out as a young, naive assistant professor in 2004 701 00:37:59,961 --> 00:38:04,715 when my mentor Mike Drake, believed in me, brought me in as his deputy, 702 00:38:04,799 --> 00:38:09,287 and together we worked for seven years to come up with a mission concept 703 00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:10,338 that was credible 704 00:38:10,338 --> 00:38:13,190 and that the agency felt like they could invest in with 705 00:38:13,190 --> 00:38:15,092 with the right amount of scientific return. 706 00:38:15,092 --> 00:38:18,779 And I know Mike would be incredibly proud of that, and it was a key 707 00:38:18,779 --> 00:38:23,451 part of his vision from day one that this is about the future generations. 708 00:38:23,701 --> 00:38:27,171 And Danny DellaGiustina, who's now the PI of the Cyrus Apex, 709 00:38:27,171 --> 00:38:32,159 I officially congratulated her right when the SRC released from the spacecraft. 710 00:38:32,243 --> 00:38:36,047 My PI ship follows the capsule and she takes the spacecraft 711 00:38:36,047 --> 00:38:37,398 on to the next adventure. 712 00:38:37,398 --> 00:38:40,918 She started with us in 2004, as well as a freshman 713 00:38:41,118 --> 00:38:45,189 at the University of Arizona when she enrolled in my asteroids seminar 714 00:38:45,272 --> 00:38:48,109 and she led a student experiment design 715 00:38:48,109 --> 00:38:51,662 for a discovery version of what we called Osiris. 716 00:38:51,662 --> 00:38:54,448 Back then, she was going to be the student experiment lead. 717 00:38:54,448 --> 00:38:58,285 She left for a little while to go pursue her advanced degrees, but came back 718 00:38:58,285 --> 00:39:02,673 as the image science imaging scientist and now is the Deputy PI for OSIRIS-Rex. 719 00:39:02,740 --> 00:39:03,691 She'll continue in that role 720 00:39:03,691 --> 00:39:06,677 through the sample analysis phase and also as the principal investigator 721 00:39:06,744 --> 00:39:07,912 for OSIRIS-Apex. 722 00:39:07,912 --> 00:39:09,347 And she is strongly committed 723 00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:13,584 to bringing the future generations along with her on that team. 724 00:39:13,818 --> 00:39:16,787 And and we've got five and a half years to Apophis 725 00:39:16,787 --> 00:39:19,306 and then 18 months at that amazing target. 726 00:39:19,306 --> 00:39:22,510 And you're going to see a lot of young people involved in that mission. 727 00:39:22,593 --> 00:39:25,413 And I can just tell you, I love working with kids. 728 00:39:25,413 --> 00:39:27,448 I go out in the community quite a lot. 729 00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:30,451 Boys and Girls Clubs of Tucson, Local Tucson schools. 730 00:39:30,601 --> 00:39:33,871 We're hosting a great event at the Tucson Children's Museum right now 731 00:39:33,954 --> 00:39:36,390 to have the city celebrate this activity. 732 00:39:36,390 --> 00:39:38,993 And I also teach undergraduate and graduate students. 733 00:39:38,993 --> 00:39:43,130 And so many of them said, We are here because of Osiris-rex. 734 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,734 We came to Tucson because the Osiris-rex mission was based here, 735 00:39:46,967 --> 00:39:51,305 and it was just an amazing example of what people can do. 736 00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:54,442 When we put aside our differences, we focus on a common goal. 737 00:39:54,692 --> 00:39:56,627 We can achieve great. 738 00:39:56,627 --> 00:40:00,047 This country can achieve great things, but we have to work together 739 00:40:00,047 --> 00:40:01,549 to make that happen. 740 00:40:01,549 --> 00:40:05,169 I'd like to add that if I could. 741 00:40:05,252 --> 00:40:07,555 So I think that's a wonderful question, 742 00:40:07,555 --> 00:40:12,026 and a big part of why we do these missions is inspiring the next generation. 743 00:40:12,026 --> 00:40:13,561 And I'm a perfect example of that. 744 00:40:13,561 --> 00:40:16,197 I grew up on a dairy farm in Vermont. 745 00:40:16,197 --> 00:40:18,632 I was inspired by the Voyager missions, 746 00:40:18,632 --> 00:40:21,869 by some of the early space shuttle missions. 747 00:40:21,952 --> 00:40:25,623 You know, it was that that got me interested in math and science. 748 00:40:25,706 --> 00:40:28,709 And then it was NASA Research 749 00:40:28,709 --> 00:40:33,948 that helped to fund my graduate studies and brought me to working from a farm 750 00:40:33,948 --> 00:40:37,368 in Vermont to doing a job at the Goddard Space Flight Center, 751 00:40:37,368 --> 00:40:40,921 where I met an amazing mentor, Gerry Soffen 752 00:40:41,005 --> 00:40:44,909 So that is just one of the biggest reasons why we do these missions. 753 00:40:44,909 --> 00:40:46,644 We're talking all about the science. 754 00:40:46,644 --> 00:40:50,397 But in order for our nation to be competitive in the future, 755 00:40:50,397 --> 00:40:55,169 we need young people to want to study math and science and technical fields. 756 00:40:55,369 --> 00:40:58,105 And this is just one aspect of that. 757 00:40:58,105 --> 00:41:02,860 But it's an amazing, rewarding aspect to work on some of these great challenges, 758 00:41:02,927 --> 00:41:05,696 and it's kind of teamwork that Dante talked about. 759 00:41:05,696 --> 00:41:07,348 So thank you for that. Question. 760 00:41:07,348 --> 00:41:08,182 Thank you so much. 761 00:41:08,182 --> 00:41:11,752 Going back to the phone lines, we are going to take a question 762 00:41:11,752 --> 00:41:23,080 from Marcia Dunne with the Associated Press. 763 00:41:23,147 --> 00:41:29,403 Not hearing you yet, Marcia, 764 00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:31,522 and it's 765 00:41:31,522 --> 00:41:31,822 great. 766 00:41:31,822 --> 00:41:37,178 Well, I am going to go on to the next person, though. 767 00:41:37,261 --> 00:41:40,648 I think Marcia might be on there twice, So we might need to go to her 768 00:41:40,648 --> 00:41:43,217 other phone line and see if that one works. 769 00:41:43,217 --> 00:41:45,803 For now, though, we are going to go to Robin Andrews 770 00:41:45,803 --> 00:41:50,307 with popular Mechanics. 771 00:41:50,391 --> 00:41:50,875 Hi. Yeah, 772 00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:54,278 I'm kind of fascinated by the fact that the council 773 00:41:54,295 --> 00:41:58,098 has an explosive ordinance expert to check for any unexploded munitions. 774 00:41:58,249 --> 00:42:03,137 So does that mean that was a very small but non-zero chance that the capsule, 775 00:42:03,137 --> 00:42:07,324 after its odyssey, could have softly touched down with an unexploded munition 776 00:42:07,408 --> 00:42:10,127 and been blown to bits or was that just just 777 00:42:10,127 --> 00:42:13,130 the extra extras like. 778 00:42:13,197 --> 00:42:15,499 Well, I'll take that because I've been the primary person 779 00:42:15,499 --> 00:42:19,620 working with our colleagues at the Air Force here who've just been amazing hosts. 780 00:42:19,703 --> 00:42:23,641 And I'll just say that the Utah Test and Training Range is an amazing place 781 00:42:23,641 --> 00:42:24,625 to land a sample. 782 00:42:24,625 --> 00:42:26,961 It's very flat, it's free of hazards 783 00:42:26,961 --> 00:42:30,864 and they have these amazing tracking resources here, but it is a test range. 784 00:42:30,864 --> 00:42:34,702 And so they do all kinds of stuff here and safety is our number one priority. 785 00:42:34,702 --> 00:42:36,237 So this is a big place. 786 00:42:36,237 --> 00:42:39,773 The first thing that the Air Force does when they send their personnel 787 00:42:39,773 --> 00:42:42,393 out in the range is make sure there's no unexploded ordnance. 788 00:42:42,393 --> 00:42:44,728 We add unexploded ordnance, check on our capsule 789 00:42:44,728 --> 00:42:47,731 when it arrived in the clean room, that was the first thing we did. 790 00:42:47,848 --> 00:42:50,517 So this is just kind of a standard procedure of safety first. 791 00:42:50,517 --> 00:42:54,755 And that's what we did out there today. 792 00:42:54,838 --> 00:42:55,739 Great. 793 00:42:55,739 --> 00:42:57,841 I will try Marcia Dunn, one more time. 794 00:42:57,841 --> 00:42:59,843 Now that we've seemed to have pulled a second line from her. 795 00:42:59,843 --> 00:43:04,231 So Marsha Dunn with the Associated Press, let's see if this one works. 796 00:43:04,315 --> 00:43:07,918 Hi, Can you hear me? 797 00:43:08,002 --> 00:43:11,005 Can you hear. 798 00:43:11,171 --> 00:43:13,340 I'm going to ask my question. 799 00:43:13,340 --> 00:43:13,641 Hello? 800 00:43:13,641 --> 00:43:17,211 I'm wondering if the capsule was dented, dinged, bent at all. 801 00:43:17,211 --> 00:43:18,178 It touched down. 802 00:43:18,178 --> 00:43:21,966 And any idea what this final touch down speed was? 803 00:43:22,049 --> 00:43:22,833 And Dante, 804 00:43:22,833 --> 00:43:24,051 how overwhelming was it 805 00:43:24,051 --> 00:43:27,054 when you finally got your eyes on the capsule and got up close to it? 806 00:43:27,288 --> 00:43:29,423 Thanks. Sir. 807 00:43:29,423 --> 00:43:30,808 Well, being one of the first people 808 00:43:30,808 --> 00:43:32,993 that got to get out there and see the capsule, it looked great. 809 00:43:32,993 --> 00:43:36,330 I mean, it was charred, but it came in at 27,000 miles an hour. 810 00:43:36,330 --> 00:43:39,300 So we expected that. Otherwise, it looked perfect. 811 00:43:39,300 --> 00:43:42,052 There was no sign of any damage or 812 00:43:42,052 --> 00:43:45,055 distortion to the heat shield or the back shell that we could see. 813 00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,242 There was a little bit of char left in the tiny little crater 814 00:43:48,242 --> 00:43:51,228 that it made literally like about this big across. 815 00:43:51,362 --> 00:43:54,348 So it was pretty much we stuck the landing and that's what 816 00:43:54,381 --> 00:43:55,849 Rex has done consistently. 817 00:43:55,849 --> 00:44:00,187 So I wasn't too surprised, but it was like seeing an old friend 818 00:44:00,270 --> 00:44:04,842 that you hadn't seen for a long time, and it was great to see it. 819 00:44:04,858 --> 00:44:06,026 It was just great to see it. 820 00:44:06,026 --> 00:44:10,164 I did want to give it a hug, but, you know, I knew I'd be all city 821 00:44:10,164 --> 00:44:12,499 and we were trying to collect environmental samples, 822 00:44:12,499 --> 00:44:14,034 so that really wouldn't have gone over well. 823 00:44:14,034 --> 00:44:15,769 But yeah, it was amazing. 824 00:44:15,769 --> 00:44:18,322 I was there when it was encapsulated in the fairing. 825 00:44:18,322 --> 00:44:22,192 I was there when it was assembled and it was installed on the spacecraft. 826 00:44:22,192 --> 00:44:26,530 I was there when it was nothing but a PowerPoint on a slide in 827 00:44:26,730 --> 00:44:28,766 and a proposal that we were submitting that asset 828 00:44:28,766 --> 00:44:31,218 with the stream that we were going to bring back samples from Bennu 829 00:44:31,218 --> 00:44:33,987 So it was amazing and emotional. 830 00:44:33,987 --> 00:44:35,939 I've been emotional all day, and that was one of the key 831 00:44:35,939 --> 00:44:39,159 moments for me, was seeing that I knew we had done it, 832 00:44:39,243 --> 00:44:41,578 that we had pulled it off. 833 00:44:41,578 --> 00:44:46,650 As incredible as it seemed all those years ago, it came to be 834 00:44:46,734 --> 00:44:46,967 great. 835 00:44:46,967 --> 00:44:50,254 Thank you for coming back to the room here. 836 00:44:50,337 --> 00:44:55,592 Please, uh, brighten the front. 837 00:44:55,676 --> 00:44:59,279 Thank you. 838 00:44:59,363 --> 00:45:01,131 Jonathan Amos, BBC News. 839 00:45:01,131 --> 00:45:02,850 Can I just go back to Eileen? 840 00:45:02,850 --> 00:45:07,204 When you took the the the heat shield off and the on the back show, 841 00:45:07,287 --> 00:45:12,426 was there any evidence that you might have had some spillage of sample 842 00:45:12,509 --> 00:45:17,081 being on those surfaces when the tagsam was put away? 843 00:45:17,147 --> 00:45:19,500 I mean, it was leaking, right? 844 00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:23,370 So I'm just I'm just wondering if there are little specks, 845 00:45:23,454 --> 00:45:27,508 little particles on those surfaces 846 00:45:27,591 --> 00:45:29,576 that need to be picked up. 847 00:45:29,576 --> 00:45:31,862 That's part of the procedure is 848 00:45:31,862 --> 00:45:36,116 to methodically go through and investigate that. 849 00:45:36,116 --> 00:45:41,422 Our our purpose here in support of the science and engineering 850 00:45:41,422 --> 00:45:45,392 teams is specifically to document 851 00:45:45,392 --> 00:45:49,363 and recover anything that could be loose. 852 00:45:49,430 --> 00:45:55,052 The I have not seen the 853 00:45:55,135 --> 00:45:56,670 aeroshell portion 854 00:45:56,670 --> 00:45:59,573 taken off, but when I was over there in the clean room 855 00:45:59,573 --> 00:46:05,529 back Shell was was removed and there wasn't anything 856 00:46:05,612 --> 00:46:07,948 optically visible 857 00:46:07,948 --> 00:46:11,618 from the exterior of the clean room. 858 00:46:11,702 --> 00:46:14,788 My team is working in the clean room 859 00:46:14,788 --> 00:46:17,791 in concert with the Lockheed Martin 860 00:46:17,991 --> 00:46:21,178 engineers and the science team, 861 00:46:21,261 --> 00:46:25,399 ensuring that we document and and recover 862 00:46:25,649 --> 00:46:28,919 anything that could have spilled out. 863 00:46:29,153 --> 00:46:31,922 But at the time I saw it, 864 00:46:31,922 --> 00:46:34,858 there was no evidence that they're 865 00:46:34,858 --> 00:46:38,579 still working in the clean room this afternoon. 866 00:46:38,662 --> 00:46:41,515 So there is still a possibility 867 00:46:41,515 --> 00:46:44,518 that there could be some of those samples. 868 00:46:44,518 --> 00:46:47,521 They will be documented and recovered 869 00:46:47,538 --> 00:46:53,660 and put into containers to be brought to the Johnson Space Center, just like 870 00:46:53,660 --> 00:46:59,316 the science canister, to make them available to the scientific community. 871 00:46:59,399 --> 00:47:00,751 That's part of the process. 872 00:47:00,751 --> 00:47:04,354 We're not yet through that process. 873 00:47:04,438 --> 00:47:04,771 Great. 874 00:47:04,771 --> 00:47:05,572 Thank you so much. 875 00:47:05,572 --> 00:47:08,575 Again, one more from the floor. 876 00:47:08,575 --> 00:47:10,310 Also in the front row 877 00:47:10,310 --> 00:47:13,864 here, this this woman on the aisle 878 00:47:13,947 --> 00:47:15,833 with the microphone is coming around. 879 00:47:15,833 --> 00:47:18,836 It's great because it can 880 00:47:19,019 --> 00:47:20,454 in the front row on the aisle here. 881 00:47:20,454 --> 00:47:22,022 Thank you. 882 00:47:22,022 --> 00:47:22,489 Howdy. 883 00:47:22,489 --> 00:47:24,992 Alyssa McGraw at Texas A&M University. 884 00:47:24,992 --> 00:47:28,228 Sounds like the range of grain sizes may not be known in. 885 00:47:28,228 --> 00:47:30,113 The canister yet, but could somebody. 886 00:47:30,113 --> 00:47:33,567 Speculate on how this could enhance thermal. 887 00:47:33,567 --> 00:47:36,570 Inertia or a modeling of asteroid surfaces? 888 00:47:36,737 --> 00:47:38,488 I'll take that. 889 00:47:38,488 --> 00:47:41,358 That's one of the key scientific objectives 890 00:47:41,358 --> 00:47:45,579 for our sample analysis program is to characterize the thermal properties. 891 00:47:45,662 --> 00:47:49,550 When we were at the asteroid and when we were even before that, 892 00:47:49,550 --> 00:47:53,921 through our telescopic astronomical campaign, we had tracking 893 00:47:53,987 --> 00:47:58,942 data on this asteroid back to 1999 all the way through departure in 2021. 894 00:47:58,942 --> 00:48:00,294 So a fantastic baseline. 895 00:48:00,294 --> 00:48:01,879 And we did see thermal effects, 896 00:48:01,879 --> 00:48:05,399 the Yarkovsky effect, which I know you're an expert in 897 00:48:05,482 --> 00:48:07,200 causing a decrease in the 898 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,621 orbital velocity and therefore the sun a major axis of the asteroid. 899 00:48:10,704 --> 00:48:13,674 So absolutely, we have Dr. 900 00:48:13,674 --> 00:48:15,392 Andy Ryan at the University of Arizona 901 00:48:15,392 --> 00:48:17,995 who leads the physical and thermal analysis Working Group. 902 00:48:17,995 --> 00:48:20,847 We have partners in Japan, partners in Canada, 903 00:48:20,847 --> 00:48:22,950 as well as some special laboratory equipment 904 00:48:22,950 --> 00:48:25,018 that we've designed right at the University of Arizona 905 00:48:25,018 --> 00:48:28,655 to measure thermal conductivity, thermal skin depth and 906 00:48:28,739 --> 00:48:32,659 bulk density, and other key parameters that will feed into understanding 907 00:48:32,659 --> 00:48:33,744 the thermal inertia, 908 00:48:33,744 --> 00:48:37,047 allowing us to do an even better job of constraining the energy balance 909 00:48:37,047 --> 00:48:40,817 in the regolith of the asteroid, which is one of the top science objectives. 910 00:48:40,817 --> 00:48:43,186 It's called out in our level one requirement to do that actually. 911 00:48:43,186 --> 00:48:46,523 So yeah, the big part of our program and feeds 912 00:48:46,523 --> 00:48:50,077 into the planetary defense initiatives because these kinds of parameters 913 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,713 really influence future trajectories of these objects. 914 00:48:52,713 --> 00:48:54,381 So if you want to have an accurate prediction of where 915 00:48:54,381 --> 00:48:57,601 they're going to be in the future, you can't just rely on Newton's laws 916 00:48:57,684 --> 00:48:58,919 or even Einstein. 917 00:48:58,919 --> 00:49:00,621 You still have to go to the thermal properties 918 00:49:00,621 --> 00:49:04,107 and yarkovsky to really get a complete solution. 919 00:49:04,191 --> 00:49:04,491 Great. 920 00:49:04,491 --> 00:49:05,876 Thank you so much. 921 00:49:05,876 --> 00:49:07,861 We are going back to the phone lines. 922 00:49:07,861 --> 00:49:10,764 Our next call is from Nell Greenfieldboyce 923 00:49:10,764 --> 00:49:15,002 with National Public Radio. 924 00:49:15,085 --> 00:49:17,154 Hey, thanks for taking my question. 925 00:49:17,154 --> 00:49:18,689 This is for Dante. 926 00:49:18,689 --> 00:49:22,909 So the first thing you guys might be able to look at is just, you know, on the. 927 00:49:22,909 --> 00:49:24,061 Outside. 928 00:49:24,061 --> 00:49:27,030 Of the canister or the sample container. 929 00:49:27,030 --> 00:49:30,450 I mean, the the collecting devices inside the canister. 930 00:49:30,534 --> 00:49:31,518 Like what? 931 00:49:31,518 --> 00:49:34,705 What tests will be done on the dust and what will you be able. 932 00:49:34,705 --> 00:49:35,739 To tell from it? 933 00:49:35,739 --> 00:49:38,909 Like, what will be the first thing you learn 934 00:49:38,992 --> 00:49:41,244 that we should know in the next few days? 935 00:49:41,244 --> 00:49:43,764 Yeah, we have a great suite of analyzes planned. 936 00:49:43,764 --> 00:49:47,150 We call this our Tiger team for a quick look analysis of the sample there. 937 00:49:47,150 --> 00:49:50,937 There's some great instruments right there at Johnson Space Center we'll be doing 938 00:49:50,937 --> 00:49:54,508 and I'll get a little technical here, but for a transform infrared spectroscopy, 939 00:49:54,691 --> 00:49:55,792 which will give us a pretty quick 940 00:49:55,792 --> 00:49:58,795 assessment of the range of minerals that we see in there. 941 00:49:58,829 --> 00:50:04,317 We have scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectrascopy 942 00:50:04,401 --> 00:50:07,037 scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy 943 00:50:07,037 --> 00:50:08,905 to give us elemental abundances. 944 00:50:08,905 --> 00:50:11,958 We'll be sending some of the material to our partners at the Natural History 945 00:50:11,958 --> 00:50:15,078 Museum in London who are experts in X-ray diffraction 946 00:50:15,078 --> 00:50:18,815 and characterizing bulk mineralogy using that material. 947 00:50:18,899 --> 00:50:22,586 So what we're really looking for is hypothesis one. 948 00:50:22,586 --> 00:50:24,321 And if you're interested, I posted the sample 949 00:50:24,321 --> 00:50:27,474 analysis plan on archive.org so anybody can download it. 950 00:50:27,474 --> 00:50:29,760 It's free to all. It's about 300 pages. 951 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,547 So just get ready if you're really wanting to dig into that. 952 00:50:33,630 --> 00:50:37,350 It's quite an engrossing read, I think, 953 00:50:37,434 --> 00:50:42,572 and it'll lay out hypothesis one, which is did we accurately characterize 954 00:50:42,572 --> 00:50:46,860 the bulk mineralogy and chemistry of the surface of the asteroid, i.e. 955 00:50:46,860 --> 00:50:48,028 did our remote sensing instruments 956 00:50:48,028 --> 00:50:51,031 work and did our data processing lead us to the right conclusions? 957 00:50:51,114 --> 00:50:52,883 So I'm going to be looking for the basics. 958 00:50:52,883 --> 00:50:55,469 Are there clay minerals there? Are there carbonate minerals? 959 00:50:55,469 --> 00:50:57,087 Are there organic molecules? 960 00:50:57,087 --> 00:50:58,705 Do we see the iron oxides? 961 00:50:58,705 --> 00:51:01,108 The other things that we predicted on the asteroid surface? 962 00:51:01,108 --> 00:51:02,943 I'm sure there's going to be surprises in there. 963 00:51:02,943 --> 00:51:04,411 Once you get into the dust scale, 964 00:51:04,411 --> 00:51:06,947 you will probably start to see a wide level of diversity. 965 00:51:06,947 --> 00:51:11,468 But it's kind of like a sneak peek of what might be in store for us. 966 00:51:11,551 --> 00:51:14,821 We don't know if the dust, what we call the finds, 967 00:51:14,821 --> 00:51:17,541 there's intermediates courses and large stones. 968 00:51:17,541 --> 00:51:21,745 There might be variations in mineralogy and composition by particle size. 969 00:51:21,978 --> 00:51:26,099 The larger ones may be more robust to disaggregation and the loose stuff 970 00:51:26,099 --> 00:51:30,087 like the one we crushed when we tagged the surface may be preferentially 971 00:51:30,087 --> 00:51:31,171 in the fine grained component. 972 00:51:31,171 --> 00:51:34,441 So it really is to give us a sense of what are we dealing with? 973 00:51:34,524 --> 00:51:38,278 Are we way out of the box in terms of what we built this big plan around? 974 00:51:38,278 --> 00:51:40,580 Or does it look like, Yeah, we got it pretty close. 975 00:51:40,580 --> 00:51:43,083 There's some surprises, but we can still continue 976 00:51:43,083 --> 00:51:46,953 with the sample analysis plan that we laid out. 977 00:51:47,037 --> 00:51:47,671 All right. 978 00:51:47,671 --> 00:51:50,907 Our next question is also from the phone line, Stephen Clark 979 00:51:50,907 --> 00:51:58,799 with Ars Technica. 980 00:51:58,882 --> 00:52:01,151 I thank you for taking my question. 981 00:52:01,151 --> 00:52:02,636 It was my questions have been asked and answered. 982 00:52:02,636 --> 00:52:05,639 But I want to follow up with if you get 983 00:52:05,822 --> 00:52:08,642 your answers a little earlier, take you back inside the helicopter 984 00:52:08,642 --> 00:52:10,343 with you this morning. 985 00:52:10,343 --> 00:52:14,798 I think if I understood your response earlier, some of the calls over the radio 986 00:52:14,881 --> 00:52:19,653 receiving about the rate of descent, what we're exactly what you were expecting, 987 00:52:19,736 --> 00:52:24,958 you know, the drones who may or may or may or may not have been deployed on time, 988 00:52:25,041 --> 00:52:28,712 just on the video when I didn't see the sign of the drogue, 989 00:52:28,712 --> 00:52:31,698 I certainly had my heart pumping 990 00:52:31,848 --> 00:52:34,367 to see if you could talk a little bit more about your feelings 991 00:52:34,367 --> 00:52:39,055 inside the helicopter as some of the calls maybe exactly when you were expecting. 992 00:52:39,206 --> 00:52:41,508 Yeah, I'll take you back even earlier in the morning, Stephen, 993 00:52:41,508 --> 00:52:45,111 because it started out there was several key milestones today 994 00:52:45,111 --> 00:52:46,079 that I was really paying 995 00:52:46,079 --> 00:52:49,983 attention to, things that we talked about a decade ago and longer. 996 00:52:49,983 --> 00:52:52,202 And it's like, okay, now, today it's real. 997 00:52:52,202 --> 00:52:54,354 The first one was the go no go pull, right? 998 00:52:54,354 --> 00:52:55,822 We had to get approval. 999 00:52:55,822 --> 00:52:59,342 We had to get the flight dynamics team, the entry descent landing team. 1000 00:52:59,342 --> 00:53:02,329 The spacecraft team had to say there already the range had to be ready. 1001 00:53:02,462 --> 00:53:05,882 And of course, our project manager had to have the final authority on that. 1002 00:53:06,082 --> 00:53:09,152 We knew we were in good shape there, but you never know, right? 1003 00:53:09,152 --> 00:53:11,071 It's like something could have happened in the wee 1004 00:53:11,071 --> 00:53:13,190 hours of the morning where I was barely sleeping. 1005 00:53:13,190 --> 00:53:14,274 That changed that poll. 1006 00:53:14,274 --> 00:53:19,229 So to hear everybody unanimously go, that was that was the first relief. 1007 00:53:19,312 --> 00:53:23,633 And then it was powering up the batteries inside the SRC 1008 00:53:23,633 --> 00:53:27,087 because they had not been there, been no telemetry from them for over 1009 00:53:27,087 --> 00:53:30,440 seven years since we launched because they were passive data. 1010 00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,260 They had a layer on top that prevented current from flowing. 1011 00:53:33,260 --> 00:53:34,878 We had to burn that layer off. 1012 00:53:34,878 --> 00:53:37,547 So I got the news 11.44 volts. 1013 00:53:37,547 --> 00:53:38,481 Both batteries 1014 00:53:38,481 --> 00:53:40,817 because this prime and redundant both were online 1015 00:53:40,817 --> 00:53:42,836 and then I knew the parachutes at least had power 1016 00:53:42,836 --> 00:53:44,371 because of the batteries were dead. 1017 00:53:44,371 --> 00:53:47,657 We knew we were coming in hard already early in the morning. 1018 00:53:47,841 --> 00:53:50,961 And then, of course, release of the capsule from the spacecraft. 1019 00:53:51,211 --> 00:53:52,729 We had Doppler tracking data. 1020 00:53:52,729 --> 00:53:56,549 There were spacecraft indication that the commands had all gone according to plan 1021 00:53:56,633 --> 00:53:59,219 so that it was it was on its own and then the divert maneuver 1022 00:53:59,219 --> 00:54:01,488 so that the spacecraft wasn't following the capsule. 1023 00:54:01,488 --> 00:54:05,575 And so everything on the spacecraft kind of set me up into a reasonably good mood. 1024 00:54:05,809 --> 00:54:08,178 And then I knew it was all about the parachute. 1025 00:54:08,178 --> 00:54:10,614 That's the only thing that I needed to know 1026 00:54:10,614 --> 00:54:11,881 was that that parachute deployed. 1027 00:54:11,881 --> 00:54:15,485 So obviously I was keyed into that more than anything. 1028 00:54:15,568 --> 00:54:17,687 It was hard to hear in the helicopter. 1029 00:54:17,687 --> 00:54:18,922 I didn't have the cool video. 1030 00:54:18,922 --> 00:54:21,207 I couldn't see what was on screen. 1031 00:54:21,207 --> 00:54:24,210 And maybe that was a good thing because I heard it was a little bit of a 1032 00:54:24,327 --> 00:54:25,645 pulse pounding moment. 1033 00:54:25,645 --> 00:54:28,531 And I do ask myself, how many of those can you have in one lifetime? 1034 00:54:28,531 --> 00:54:30,350 Right. And I might be reaching my limit, 1035 00:54:30,350 --> 00:54:32,852 I'm not sure, but it kind of feels like it today. 1036 00:54:32,852 --> 00:54:36,356 And so it was you know, I knew we were looking at around 100,000 feet. 1037 00:54:36,356 --> 00:54:37,857 We should get confirmation of drogue. 1038 00:54:37,857 --> 00:54:40,577 And, you know, we had our amazing range safety officer 1039 00:54:40,577 --> 00:54:43,580 Jasmine, I know if you're here, but she's been great to work with. 1040 00:54:43,697 --> 00:54:47,667 And so she was the one that was actually getting the callbacks and then and really 1041 00:54:47,817 --> 00:54:49,052 relaying that back to us. 1042 00:54:49,052 --> 00:54:50,670 And I was like, Do we have drogue? 1043 00:54:50,670 --> 00:54:52,222 And she's like, They're not calling Drogue. 1044 00:54:52,222 --> 00:54:55,976 And I were like, We're at 60,000 feet and I think I looked at Scott Sanford 1045 00:54:55,976 --> 00:54:57,827 and I was like, I don't know. 1046 00:54:57,827 --> 00:55:00,146 I said, We should have drogue, but it could be coverage. 1047 00:55:00,146 --> 00:55:01,431 It could be that we're not seeing it. 1048 00:55:01,431 --> 00:55:04,284 I know the helicopter was was having trouble because of the location 1049 00:55:04,284 --> 00:55:08,621 where we had touched down and relays to get the video feed back here. 1050 00:55:08,688 --> 00:55:14,010 And so I was mentally preparing myself, like for the worst case scenario, 1051 00:55:14,010 --> 00:55:16,313 I always said, this is like you're the championship game. 1052 00:55:16,313 --> 00:55:20,567 You've just thrown the touchdown winning pass and you fumble it out of bounds. 1053 00:55:20,567 --> 00:55:22,052 That's what my nightmare was. 1054 00:55:22,052 --> 00:55:24,270 It's like, I can't lose this at the last minute. 1055 00:55:24,270 --> 00:55:26,389 And so I was just trying to make sure 1056 00:55:26,389 --> 00:55:30,176 I didn't totally break down in front of an international audience. 1057 00:55:30,176 --> 00:55:30,427 Right? 1058 00:55:30,427 --> 00:55:30,710 And it's like, 1059 00:55:30,710 --> 00:55:34,497 okay, you got to keep it together when you get out of this helicopter, 1060 00:55:34,581 --> 00:55:37,167 deal with it, whatever is there, and then mourn 1061 00:55:37,167 --> 00:55:38,418 if that's what you're going to have to do. 1062 00:55:38,418 --> 00:55:42,322 But then within minutes, you know, Jasmine said, they shoot. 1063 00:55:42,539 --> 00:55:46,860 And I was like, that's that's when I just emotionally just let it go. 1064 00:55:46,943 --> 00:55:48,712 You know, Tears were streaming down my eyes. 1065 00:55:48,712 --> 00:55:51,931 I was like, okay, that's the only thing I needed to hear from this point on. 1066 00:55:51,931 --> 00:55:54,017 We know what to do. We're safe, we're home. 1067 00:55:54,017 --> 00:55:55,135 We did it. 1068 00:55:55,135 --> 00:55:56,753 As I told Lori as we were getting ready. 1069 00:55:56,753 --> 00:55:59,389 I can't believe I ate the whole thing right. 1070 00:55:59,389 --> 00:56:00,357 From soup to nuts. 1071 00:56:00,357 --> 00:56:02,642 Everything is on the flight program for us. 1072 00:56:02,642 --> 00:56:04,461 Osiris-Rex went smashingly 1073 00:56:04,461 --> 00:56:05,762 This just smashingly 1074 00:56:05,762 --> 00:56:08,748 Well, and so enormous pride and gratitude 1075 00:56:08,882 --> 00:56:11,851 and and and excitement of the next phase. 1076 00:56:11,851 --> 00:56:13,470 Sample analysis. 1077 00:56:13,470 --> 00:56:14,521 So much. 1078 00:56:14,521 --> 00:56:18,141 We have time for one more from the room especially if our panelists are quick 1079 00:56:18,141 --> 00:56:21,945 in their answers. 1080 00:56:22,028 --> 00:56:22,612 I will 1081 00:56:22,612 --> 00:56:25,615 take this gentleman right here, the dark blue shirt. 1082 00:56:25,648 --> 00:56:27,917 Um, passing it from the other side. 1083 00:56:27,917 --> 00:56:32,222 It's coming to you if you look the other way for thanks. 1084 00:56:32,305 --> 00:56:39,429 Yes. I'm Justin Davenport from NSF. 1085 00:56:39,512 --> 00:56:43,116 If Bennu is 1086 00:56:43,199 --> 00:56:45,118 a carbonaceous asteroid 1087 00:56:45,118 --> 00:56:50,256 and we we now have samples from several 1088 00:56:50,340 --> 00:56:53,276 from several asteroids, 1089 00:56:53,276 --> 00:56:56,463 which type of asteroid do you 1090 00:56:56,613 --> 00:57:01,468 does the scientific community community want in the future? 1091 00:57:01,468 --> 00:57:04,821 Which type of asteroids 1092 00:57:04,971 --> 00:57:09,359 are you looking at for the next sample mission? 1093 00:57:09,442 --> 00:57:11,611 Well, I can tell you my personal preference, 1094 00:57:11,611 --> 00:57:14,747 which is we're go and it's a it's a decadal survey priority. 1095 00:57:14,747 --> 00:57:16,249 It's comet sample return. Right. 1096 00:57:16,249 --> 00:57:21,237 The next big small body sample return challenge is comet sample return. 1097 00:57:21,321 --> 00:57:21,588 Right. 1098 00:57:21,588 --> 00:57:23,606 Because the one thing that we're not getting with 1099 00:57:23,606 --> 00:57:27,477 carbonaceous asteroids are the volatiles, the things that make ices. 1100 00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:30,680 And those are critical, you know, especially with these icy surfaces 1101 00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:31,648 getting irradiated, 1102 00:57:31,648 --> 00:57:35,168 lots of interesting organic molecules can form under those environments. 1103 00:57:35,251 --> 00:57:37,787 So we've been working as a team. 1104 00:57:37,787 --> 00:57:40,557 And these things, you know, you got to stick with them 1105 00:57:40,557 --> 00:57:42,709 to get a comet sample return mission 1106 00:57:42,709 --> 00:57:47,380 credibly propose to NASA's at the next we hope new frontiers opportunity. 1107 00:57:47,464 --> 00:57:51,751 We think we'll be really competitive in that in that environment. 1108 00:57:51,835 --> 00:57:54,771 So I am sorry we don't have time for more questions. 1109 00:57:54,771 --> 00:57:58,374 For those who didn't get their questions answered, please do write an email in 1110 00:57:58,558 --> 00:58:01,411 and we will try to get your questions answered. 1111 00:58:01,411 --> 00:58:02,779 So stay tuned. 1112 00:58:02,779 --> 00:58:05,598 You can follow the rest of the mission. 1113 00:58:05,598 --> 00:58:08,184 NASA.gov Osiris-rex. 1114 00:58:08,184 --> 00:58:13,640 And we will have more information soon about leaving tomorrow on the C-17, 1115 00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:18,444 which is parked just outside to get those samples to Houston. 1116 00:58:18,678 --> 00:58:23,099 We're going to end with some highlights. 1117 00:58:23,183 --> 00:58:24,050 And she was at. 1118 00:58:24,050 --> 00:58:27,437 The milestone as our city is experiencing 1119 00:58:27,437 --> 00:58:30,723 maximum medium to maximum deceleration. 1120 00:58:30,807 --> 00:58:33,293 So you just heard right there, we're experiencing that 5000 degree 1121 00:58:33,293 --> 00:58:35,028 Fahrenheit maximum heating. 1122 00:58:35,028 --> 00:58:35,845 Ideal, Miles. 1123 00:58:35,845 --> 00:58:39,749 So we have confirmed performance. Wow. 1124 00:58:39,749 --> 00:58:42,051 And after an exhilarating 1125 00:58:42,051 --> 00:58:45,538 streak across Earth's atmosphere, we have parachute deployment. 1126 00:58:45,538 --> 00:58:47,907 You can see just a sigh of relief from the team. 1127 00:58:47,907 --> 00:58:49,592 I can hear some applause here. 1128 00:58:49,592 --> 00:58:52,529 The team, the WB 57. Do 1129 00:58:52,612 --> 00:58:53,980 touchdown. 1130 00:58:53,980 --> 00:58:57,350 I repeat EDL as far as touchdown. 1131 00:58:57,383 --> 00:59:00,420 And touchdown of the OSIRIS-Rex sample return capsule. 1132 00:59:00,570 --> 00:59:05,642 A journey of a billion miles to asteroid BENNU and back has come to an end 1133 00:59:05,725 --> 00:59:08,728 marking America's first sample return mission of its kind 1134 00:59:08,761 --> 00:59:11,781 and opening a time capsule to our ancient solar system. 1135 00:59:11,998 --> 00:59:14,450 A sample carrying fixture. 1136 00:59:14,450 --> 00:59:18,204 Of the operations WB has located the parachute on the ground. 1137 00:59:18,288 --> 00:59:21,424 And you just heard that confirmation from that high altitude plane locating that.