MIAMI, (APP/AFP) – The first US spacecraft
designed to collect dust from an asteroid and return the sample to Earth blasted off Thursday on a seven-year mission to unveil the origins of the solar system, NASA said.
The unmanned spaceship, called OSIRIS-REx, launched at 7:05 pm (2305
GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, where some 8,000 onlookers gathered to watch the rocket take flight.
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NASA launches spacecraft to collect asteroid dust
