Acting Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate Geoffrey Yoder, left, talks with Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate Gregory Robinson, right, ahead of the launch of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) in 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
Acting Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate Geoffrey Yoder, left, talks with Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate Gregory Robinson, right, ahead of the launch of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) in 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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