Members from Lockheed Martin, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the University of Arizona load a spacecraft on a C-17 Globemaster III, assigned to Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, May 20, 2016, on Buckley Air Force Base, Colo. The spacecraft being loaded is the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, a robotic space probe that will intercept an asteroid named Bennu in order to gather samples to be tested for organic material. Airman 1st Class Luke W. Nowakowski

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