NASAcronyms: How OSIRIS-REx Got Its Name

Friday, May 27, 2011 - 12:30 in Mathematics & Economics

OSIRIS-REx, a future asteroid-bound spacecraft, takes its name from an Egyptian god who spread agriculture all over Egypt.

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