I'm John Batchel with Dante Loretta.

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.

It's going to re-enter like the early days of the Apollo program.

You'll see a shoot open and it'll drift down and you'll pick it up just perfectly.

You know, the Navy SEALs will go over the edge of the helicopter.

Everybody will be happy.

Well, Dante, you're out there in helicopters chasing this,

except for instead of the ocean, you're using your desert, the desert you're so familiar with.

And everything is going according to plan.

Osiris, Rex, drops off the sample return.

It blazes through the atmosphere.

It teaches work.

And then, where's the drug shoot?

What happens?

Right. At that moment moment I'm in a

helicopter and we're heading out to the Utah test and training range which is a

Department of Defense facility that's the largest continuously controlled

airspace in the continental United States so it's a nice place to bring in a

capsule from outer space and it's a wide open salt flat out there, so plenty of flat ground

to land on.

And I know down to the second when these events are supposed to occur and after we go through

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