Posted on September 8, 2016Watch NASA Launch OSIRIS-REx, Its Asteroid-Sampling Spacecraft NASA's OSIRIS-REx leaves today on a seven-year journey to collect a scientific windfall of asteroid dust (and very small rocks). Bennu or bust! The post Watch NASA Launch OSIRIS-REx, Its Asteroid-Sampling Spacecraft appeared first on WIRED.
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