Rocket carrying NASA asteroid probe blasts off from Florida

Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 18:21 in Astronomy & Space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A NASA space probe was launched aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Florida on Thursday on an unprecedented quest to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth in hopes of learning more about the origins of life.

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