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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is headed for a flyby with Earth

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will make a close flyby of Earth before shooting toward the asteroid Bennu.

Mount Graham telescope spots OSIRIS-REx spacecraft days before it swings to asteroid

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is approaching Earth for its Sept. 22 Earth Gravity Assist.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx blasts off on ambitious mission to visit asteroid, bring a piece home

OSIRIS-REx began its seven-year mission to land on an ancient space rock and return to Earth with a sample of its surface. "It really is a time capsule," said Dante Lauretta, a UA professor and the mission's principal investigator.

NASA launches OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to retrieve asteroid pieces

NASA's mission to grab pieces of an asteroid and bring them back to Earth took off on Thursday night. "You'll be glad to know we got everything just exactly perfect," Dante Lauretta, UA professor and the mission's principal investigator, said at a news conference after the launch of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is set to launch

The OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 4:05 p.m. on Thursday, beginning a seven-year mission to touch an asteroid and return a sample to Earth.

What will happen to OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample?

NASA is gearing up to launch the UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission. Once the spacecraft blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sept. 8, it will chase down a carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx - asteroid sampler

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will be launched on Sept. 8. The UA-led mission will travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu to harvest a sample of surface material and return it to Earth for study.

OSIRIS-REx rocket rolls out Wednesday for simulated launch

The UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to launch in two weeks, and the first two stages of the rocket will be rolled out to the launch pad Wednesday for a simulated launch.

5 things to know about OSIRIS-REx mission

UA professor Dante Lauretta is the principal investigator for the mission to collect asteroid samples.

Chasing Bennu: Inside NASA’s daring mission to capture asteroid pebbles