NASA Successfully Launches Its Asteroid-Chasing Spacecraft

NASA's ambitious OSIRIS-REx mission to collect samples of an ancient asteroid and bring them back to earth recently went off without a hitch. The spacecraft began atop an Atlas 5 rocket in Cape Canaveral, FL and is set to parachute a capsule in seven years with the asteroid's dust into a desert in Utah. Scientists hope that samples from the asteroid, named Bennu, will provide clues about the early solar system and molecules responsible for creating life on earth. "You'll be glad to know we got e...