NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Gregory Robinson, left, Director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center Robert Cabana, center, and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, watch the launch of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft from the Atlas Spacecraft 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
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Gregory Robinson, left, Director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center Robert Cabana, center, and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, watch the launch of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft from the Atlas Spacecraft 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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