NASA has successfully launched OSIRIS-REx, their first asteroid-sample return mission

 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully launched from Cape Canaveral with the help of 1.2 million pounds of thrust provided by an Atlas V rocket. The spacecraft will journey to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu and return an asteroid sample back to Earth. This will be NASA’s first asteroid sample-return mission. Designed to return a sample as large as two kilograms, the… Read More

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