Image: KSC-20160819-PH GEB01 0024 (28869645070)
Description: 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 prepared for encapsulation in its payload fairing. Targeted for liftoff 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. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson NASA image use policy.
Title: KSC-20160819-PH GEB01 0024 (28869645070)
Credit: KSC-20160819-PH_GEB01_0024
Author: NASA Kennedy from United States
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