When bringing a sample of the cosmos back to Earth,
it's important to find a good landing zone that won't compromise the sample.
That's why NASA's partnered with the Army's Dugway Proving Ground.
Its vast open space makes it ideal for the task,
but Osiris-rex is neither the first nor the last mission to land here.
In 2004, the Genesis mission landed here at Dugway,
delivering our first ever samples of solar wind in 2006.
NASA's landed at Dugway again, this time with a mission called Stardust,
which gathered samples of interstellar dust.
Both of these missions helped fuel our understanding of the universe
and wouldn't have been possible without a safe landing zone, just like Osiris-rex.
After today, NASA and Dugway are looking towards the future
to the Mars sample return mission that will once again be
bringing a unique sample of our universe right here to Dugway Proving Ground.