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Probe hoisted aboard launcher to leave Earth next week on asteroid adventure

31 August 2016 Justin Ray

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft moved a step closer to starting a voyage to explore an uncharted world in our solar system — the mountain-sized Asteroid Bennu — by joining the booster rocket that will propel it from Earth next week.