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To Bennu and back: OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission launches [i]For the first time since the last Apollo moon landing, a U.S. spacecraft is now on its way to collect and return samples from the surface of another celestial body. OSIRIS-REx, or Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, embarked on the first NASA mission to retrieve a part of an asteroid. The probe launched Thursday (Sept. 8) at 7:05 p.m. EDT (0005 GMT Sept. 9) on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.[/i]
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