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Video: Walk around NASA’s new asteroid sample probe

August 23, 2016 Stephen Clark

Take a walk around NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft less than three weeks before its Sept. 8 launch on top of an Atlas 5 rocket. Rich Kuhns, the mission’s program manager from Lockheed Martin, points out some of the major features on the probe.

Photos: OSIRIS-REx prepped for encapsulation

August 23, 2016 Stephen Clark

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to be sealed inside the nose fairing of its Atlas 5 rocket booster for a seven-year voyage to asteroid Bennu and back to Earth on a mission to seek out clues to the origin of life and the chaotic early solar system.

One of NASA’s cleanest spacecraft ever is ready to fly

August 23, 2016 Stephen Clark

Five years after winning $1 billion from NASA to mount the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission, scientists and engineers will get their last look at the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft this week as it is closed up inside the nose cone of an Atlas 5 rocket for launch in September.

Video: Walk around NASA’s new asteroid sample probe

Photos: OSIRIS-REx prepped for encapsulation

One of NASA’s cleanest spacecraft ever is ready to fly

Video: Preview of the OSIRIS-REx mission to sample an asteroid

Photos: Solar arrays attached to asteroid-bound OSIRIS-REx spacecraft

Buildup of unusual launcher begins for NASA’s asteroid sample return mission

Video: Asteroid sampler craft delivered to launch site

NASA probe that will make round trip to asteroid and back sent to launch base

New lineup spelled out for upcoming Atlas 5 rocket launches from the Cape