Well okay, the Utah desert floor will be hit by a return vehicle with a capsule containing a sample collected from asteroid Bennu. It sounds only moderately interesting, doesn't it? But this is what will happen not only then, but immediately afterward --

"After being released by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at an altitude of about 63,000 miles (101,000 km) above Earth, the capsule should land in the Department of Defense's remote Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) on Sunday (Sept. 24) at 8:55 a.m. MDT (10:55 a.m. EDT, 1455 GMT). You can watch the landing here at Space.com courtesy of NASA....

....If the capsule makes it safely to the desert floor, it will be met first by U.S. Air Force personnel who will secure the landing site and make sure it's safe for the next step, which involves recovery teams. From there, the capsule will be picked up by a Department of Defense helicopter and immediately transported to a temporary clean room set up at Dugway Proving Ground, a U.S. Army installation tasked with testing chemical and biological defense equipment.

Once securely inside the cleanroom at Dugway, the capsule will be opened and the canister containing the samples of asteroid Bennu will be readied for transport once again. They will then be flown to NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas where they will have their own newly-built facility waiting for them, the agency's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) division."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/will-nasa-s-osiris-rex-stick-its-asteroid-sample-landing-scientists-are-very-much-confident-as-zero-hour-nears/ar-AA1h7KEU

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

All this fuss over a bunch of space rocks, probably from Kolob? ;)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/2023 07:40PM by summer.

Sadly, this is yet another case of Acronym Overlod and is punishable...

IKR

Will they be murdering more sheep ?

"Where the US government works with things polite society would rather not know about."

It does sound dubious, doesn't it?

The sentence is not in the article. I believe it is caffiend's own characterization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident

"Since its founding in 1941, much of the activity at Dugway Proving Ground has been a closely guarded secret. Activities at Dugway included aerial nerve agent testing.[2] According to reports from New Scientist, Dugway was still producing small quantities of non-infectious anthrax of a type used in the making of vaccines as late as 1998, 30 years after the United States renounced biological weapons.[3] There were at least 1,100 other chemical tests at Dugway during the time period of the Dugway sheep incident. In total, almost 500,000 lb (230,000 kg) of nerve agent were dispersed during open-air tests.[2] There were also tests at Dugway with other weapons of mass destruction, including 332 open-air tests of biological weapons, 74 dirty bomb tests, and eight furnace heatings of nuclear material under open air conditions to simulate the dispersal of fallout in the case of meltdown of aeronautic nuclear reactors"

Thanks for the correction.

Get vaccinated for the Andromeda Strain now.

Can fasting and prayer get an asteroid to hit the Moroni on the Salt Lake temple?