Dugway Proving Grounds

On Scene Commander of Recovery Jasmine Nakayama attaches the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to a helicopter for transport to the cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

What it was like on the ground in Utah as NASA’s asteroid sample stuck its landing

Caroline Ballard

The sample from the OSIRIS-REx mission could shed light on the history of the solar system and how life came to be. As one NASA scientist put it, “It’s the first time we’ll be able to look for the building blocks of life and trust the results, right, that this is not contamination.”

Health, Science & Environment

Iffy Dugway Anthrax Shipments Prompt Call For Local Oversight

Judy Fahys

A watchdog group says Utahns should be keeping tabs on operations at Dugway Proving Ground after the test center for biological and chemical weapons in…

Dugway Proving Ground Inadvertently Sends Live Anthrax to Private Lab

A Department of Defense lab at the Dugway Proving Ground facility in Western Utah inadvertently sent live samples of anthrax to private labs in nine…

Health, Science & Environment

Migrating Birds Crash at Dugway

Hundreds of migrating birds crash-landed at Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground overnight, apparently mistaking a parking lot in a snowstorm for water. Al Vogel,…