NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampling Probe Assembled at Florida Launch Base for Sep. 8 Blastoff -- Cleanroom Photos

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - OSIRIS-Rex, the first American sponsored probe aimed at retrieving "pristine materials" from the surface of an asteroid and returning them to Earth has been fully assembled at its Florida launch base and is ready to blastoff ten days from today on Sep. 8. It's a groundbreaking mission that could inform us about astrobiology and the 'Origin of Life.' "We are interested in that material because it is a time capsule from the earliest stages of solar system formation," sai...