Dante LaurettaThe Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System Hardcover – March 19, 2024 by Dante Lauretta (Author) Title: Triumph and Legacy: The Sample's Return Author:
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Title: Triumph and Legacy: The Sample's Return Author:
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, despite the leaking sample, proved robust and began its journey back to Earth. During re-entry over the Utah Test and Training Range, a critical scare occurred: the drogue chute, meant to stabilize the capsule at 100,000 feet, failed to deploy on time. Dante Lauretta, recalling the Genesis mission's parachute failure, endured three desperate minutes until the main chute deployed at 60,000 feet, signaling mission success. The sample was successfully recovered. OSIRIS-REx was then rebranded OSIRIS-APEX, handed over to Dante's former student and now assistant professor, Danny Dea Justina. The mission continues to explore another near-Earth asteroid, Apophis, carrying forward Mike Drake's vision of training future leaders in planetary science.
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| 0:29.9 | I'm John Batchel with Dante LaRate. His new book is The Asteroid Hunter, a scientist journey to the dawn of our solar system. We're waiting for the re-entry of the sample collection. |
| 0:36.8 | It's going to re-enter like the early days of the Apollo program. |
| 0:41.1 | You'll see a shoot open and it'll drift down and you'll pick it up just perfectly. |
| 0:46.0 | You know, the Navy SEALs will go over the edge of the helicopter. |
| 0:49.6 | Everybody will be happy. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, Dante, you're out there in helicopters chasing this, except for instead of |
| 0:56.9 | the ocean, you're using your desert, the desert you're so familiar with. And everything is going |
| 1:02.8 | according to plan. Osiris, Rex, drops off the sample return. It blazes through the atmosphere. |
| 1:09.6 | It teaches work. And then where's the drug shoot? |
| 1:12.6 | What happens? |
| 1:14.2 | Right. |
| 1:14.7 | At that moment, I'm in a helicopter, and we're heading out to the Utah Test and Training Range, |
| 1:19.2 | which is a Department of Defense facility. |
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