UA to Lead NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission
May 27, 2011
NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will orbit and explore asteroid 1999 RQ36 for more than a year before closing in and collecting a sample of pristine organic material that may have seeded Earth with the building blocks that led to life. credit: University of Arizona
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Technology Internet, Exploration, Space, Space exploration, Environment, (101955) 1999 RQ36, Osiris mission, University of Arizona, Asteroid, NASA, Arizona
