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September 8, 2016 11:41 pm GMT
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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 MoreOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/epcwfMTRhxc/
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