NASA to Launch Asteroid-Sampling Mission Next Week

Friday, September 2, 2016 - 06:31 in Astronomy & Space

On Thursday (Sept. 8), the agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, kicking off a two-year journey to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

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