Posted on 09/24/2023 4:55:24 PM PDT by texas booster
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At 12:37 a.m. EDT (10:37 a.m. MDT), a helicopter gently placed NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample capsule, attached to the end of a 100-foot cable, on the ground outside a hangar on the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. Two technicians on the ground helped guide the capsule down.
Once the helicopter line was detached and the helicopter had departed, the clean room team removed the capsule from its metal transport cradle. They loaded the capsule onto a cart and wheeled it into the hangar where a temporary clean room had been set up. In the hangar, the capsule was fully unwrapped and cleaned, and then taken into the clean room for disassembly.
To protect the clean room from contaminants, only six people are allowed inside. Covered from head to toe in bunny suits, hoods, nitrile gloves, shoe covers, plus hair and beard covers, their job is to disassemble the capsule and remove the unopened sample canister inside. They will package all the parts for transport by aircraft to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Monday morning.
As soon as the disassembly team opens the capsule and removes several components, exposing the unopened sample canister, the plan is to connect the canister to a continuous flow of nitrogen, which will be monitored every hour. Nitrogen is an inert gas that will protect the Bennu sample from oxygen, moisture, and other contaminants; NASA has used nitrogen to protect space samples since the Apollo era.
If clean room staff find loose asteroid particles inside the capsule, they will collect them and place them in aluminum cups for transfer to Johnson.
The disassembly and packaging process is expected to last about five hours, with a clean room technician documenting the process for NASA’s history records.
Sounds like the Andromeda Strain.
The sample from the OSIRIS-REx landed in Utah and is not being prepared for transport to Houston.
A detailed view of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample capsule. The capsule weighs about 100 pounds and is the size of a large truck tire. Credit: Lockheed Martin Space.
Let’s all just get ready for......anything....
https://monstermoviemusic.blogspot.com/2014/05/fantastic-universal-monster-run-from.html
This is cool as hell
So...it begins...
Thanks for the heads up. Killer pictures. Appreciated.
Seen on screens:
ATTEMPT NO LANDING ON BENNU. REPEAT. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LAND ON BENNU.
EUROPA, BENNU - DAMN AUTOCORRECT!
Pick it up
Hell no! You pick it up!
Drama builds!
Is it like the mysterious Blue Ice that falls from aircraft lavatories?
I have low expectations that there is anything very special about what they find.
But I have high expectations that details will be dribbled out and used as justification for BILLION$ of new spending. After all, “this will likely result in the cure for [* save this space for a horrible disease *].”
Of course “The Andromeda Strain” (2008 miniseries) had to have a gay character in it. Neither the book or original movie had one but they’re somehow needed these days.
“ Nitrogen is an inert gas… “
WRONG ——-
Nitrogen is NOT inert.
Nitrogen is a very active element.
It is an atom in the molecules of most explosives.
Well, they made Dr. Peter Leavitt in the book a woman to make the cast ‘more diverse’ for the movie in ‘71.
It’s just Hollyweird.
They used a Helicopter to move that little pissant thing ?!?!?!
}{€££ a Flog Cart could have done that as the fuel is whole lot cheaper.
So... NASA has a team of engineers and scientists that can launch a rocket from earth, launch a probe from the rocket, land on a meteor half a billion miles away moving at 50,000 miles an hour, take off from the meteor, return to earth, drop a package in the desert, but STILL fail their number one mission;
Making Muslims feel good about themselves.....
(Remember the project engineer who was forced to publicly flagellate himself for the successful Rosetta mission because ehe wore a bikini girl shirt (a woman gave him)?)
IKR im going to watch that tonight
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