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#Photos: OSIRIS-REx on pad to begin voyage to Bennu and back

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Headed to a relic from the solar system’s formation over four billion years ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return craft was moved to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad today in preparation for liftoff Thursday aboard an Atlas 5 rocket en route to Asteroid Bennu hoping to find the seeds of life.

Credit: NASA

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See earlier OSIRIS-REx coverage.

Our Atlas archive.

from Spaceflight Now ift.tt/2cl77RV

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