Posted on 09/08/2016 11:59:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A two-hour launch window opens Thursday at 7:05 p.m. for the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V-411 rocket.
Over the next two years, OSIRIS-REx will travel to the 1,650-foot-wide near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu. The spacecraft will then spend two years studying the asteroid and collecting a pristine surface sample for return to Earth in September 2023, the first U.S. mission to do so and the largest sample of an extraterrestrial body since the Apollo missions.
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Correct title is: “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ready for Thursday launch to NC-named asteroid”
They are going to wake it up!
It was built here, at Lockheed Martin.
This will set off a space race to use robots to attach ion engines to asteroids in order to steer them toward military targets on Earth.
At the end of the day, NASA is just another bloated government alphabet agency that has long outlived its charter and purpose. Intercepting asteroids is the new $2000 toilet seat.
Excellent flick.
They stuff this spacecraft full of Muslims?
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