America's First Asteroid Sampling Mission OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Florida Launch Base

America's first ever mission designed to retrieve samples from the surface of an asteroid and return them to Earth - OSIRIS-Rex - has arrived at its Florida launch base for processing to get ready for blastoff barely three and one half months from today. NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will launch from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Sep...