NASA to launch asteroid mission with ambitious goal: to learn the origins of life on Earth

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 10:31 in Astronomy & Space

NASA will send a spacecraft barrelling towards an asteroid, in a seven-year round trip launching Thursday to scoop up and bring back samples from the rock’s surface.

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