NASA Asteroid Mission Set for 2016

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 19:00 in Astronomy & Space

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been selected for launch in 2016 and will bring samples of an asteroid back to Earth by 2023, officials said.

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