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September 08, 2016

NASA launches first asteroid dust-retrieval mission
Miami (AFP) Sept 8, 2016
The US space agency Thursday launched its first mission to collect dust from an asteroid, the kind of cosmic body that may have delivered life-giving materials to Earth billions of years ago. The unmanned spacecraft, known as OSIRIS-REx, blasted off at 7:05 pm (23:05 GMT) atop an Atlas V rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The $800 million mission will travel for two years on a journey to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid about the size of a small mountain. ... read more

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