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09-08-2016, 11:22 PM
A NASA probe is about to launch on a mission to sample an asteroid
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NASA wants to snag a piece of an asteroid, and a new mission launching Thursday is designed to do just that.*
The space agency's uncrewed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will speed toward a meet up with the giant asteroid Bennu after its launch, expected at 7:05 p.m. ET Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida.*
It will take seven years for the spacecraft to reach the asteroid.*
SEE ALSO: NASA sends spacecraft to asteroid for answers about birth of our solar system (http://mashable.com/2016/09/06/asteroid-osiris-rex-nasa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The mission, a first of its kind for NASA but the third such mission launched worldwide in the last 15 years, should deliver a sample of the asteroid back to Earth by 2023, potentially revealing more about the origins of our planet — and even life — than ever before. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/08/osiris-rex-nasa-asteroid-mission-launch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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NASA wants to snag a piece of an asteroid, and a new mission launching Thursday is designed to do just that.*
The space agency's uncrewed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will speed toward a meet up with the giant asteroid Bennu after its launch, expected at 7:05 p.m. ET Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida.*
It will take seven years for the spacecraft to reach the asteroid.*
SEE ALSO: NASA sends spacecraft to asteroid for answers about birth of our solar system (http://mashable.com/2016/09/06/asteroid-osiris-rex-nasa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The mission, a first of its kind for NASA but the third such mission launched worldwide in the last 15 years, should deliver a sample of the asteroid back to Earth by 2023, potentially revealing more about the origins of our planet — and even life — than ever before. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/08/osiris-rex-nasa-asteroid-mission-launch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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