A vehicle drives past a sign showing zero days until the launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two hour launch window opens tonight at 7:05pm ET. 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
A vehicle drives past a sign showing zero days until the launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two hour launch window opens tonight at 7:05pm ET. 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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