OSIRIS-REx Is Headed for an Asteroid Encounter, Following ‘Perfect’ Launch

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OSIRIS-REx Is Headed for an Asteroid Encounter, Following ‘Perfect’ Launch
By Nola Taylor Redd | September 9, 2016 2:52 pm
 

Smoke and fire covered the ground as the NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission launched into space. Blasting out of Earth’s orbit on Thursday, the mission begins its two-year journey to sample an asteroid. It will be seven long years before the spacecraft returns home, dropping its bounty into the Utah desert. Along the way, it will map an asteroid in depth and help scientists better understand the secrets of the early universe.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/09/09/osiris-rex-is-headed-for-an-asteroid-encounter-following-successful-launch/#.WQxj3sa1uwW

[Oceander]

I'm just waiting for the first space mission to be announced that has a completion date after my actuarially expected death date.