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OSIRIS-REx Encapsulation
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Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is encapsulated in its payload fairing. Targeted for liftoff at 7:05 p.m. EDT Sept. 8, 2016, OSIRIS-Rex will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineOSIRIS-REx Encapsulation. NASA/KSC, 2016-08-24. Public domain. ID: KSC-20160824-PH_DNG01_0007.
