Director of NASA's Launch Services Program in the Human Exploration & Operations Mission Directorate James Norman, left, and Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate Gregory Robinson, right, monitor the progress of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) after launch from the Atlas V Spaceflight Operations Center on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first mission to sample an astero
Director of NASA's Launch Services Program in the Human Exploration & Operations Mission Directorate James Norman, left, and Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate Gregory Robinson, right, monitor the progress of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) after launch from the Atlas V Spaceflight Operations Center on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth.
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