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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. Liftoff was at 7:05 p.m. EDT on September 8, 2016. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
1 posted on 09/10/2016 9:05:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Launch Replays of Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2k2IwBoZqk


2 posted on 09/10/2016 9:10:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Cool mission. Hope it doesn’t bring back something like the Andromeda strain.


3 posted on 09/10/2016 11:48:32 AM PDT by catbertz
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