An illustration of the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Bennu. The probe will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket September 8, 2016 from the Kennedy Space Center and plans to orbit and retrieve samples from the asteroid Bennu and return it to Earth for study. © Planetpix/Alamy Live News

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An illustration of the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Bennu. The probe will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket September 8, 2016 from the Kennedy Space Center and plans to orbit and retrieve samples from the asteroid Bennu and return it to Earth for study.

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