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OSIRIS-REx

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on September 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Former Astronaut and ‘Asteroid Day’ Expert on Life-Threatening Impacts

Dr. Thomas Jones of ASE's Committee: Earth is bound to be hit by an asteroid 'damaging enough to destroy civilization'
By Michael Sainato
The Atlas V rocket launches OSIRIS-REx towards Asteroid Bennu

Watch Our Incredible Footage of OSIRIS-REx Being Launched Towards an Asteroid

NASA has successfully launched a groundbreaking mission to rendezvous with asteroid Bennu—a small, but unpredictable asteroid that could hold the secrets to life in our solar system.
By Robin Seemangal
Dr. Dante Lauretta at NASA Kennedy Space Center

The Mastermind Behind NASA’s Asteroid Mission Explains Why It’s So Damn Epic

Dante Lauretta is the pioneer behind NASA’s bold 7-year mission to intercept a potentially hazardous asteroid, collect a sample from it, and bring that sample home to be studied for generations to come.
By Robin Seemangal
Graphic showing the OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft surveying asteroid Bennu

NASA Is About to Launch a Daring Mission to Intercept a Near-Earth Asteroid

By Robin Seemangal
A rendering of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft orbiting an asteroid.

NASA to Send Art to an Asteroid, Umberto Eco Dead at 84—and More

By Alanna Martinez
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