NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft begins environmental testing

Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 07:40 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colorado. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth for further study.

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