A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V Rocket Carrying The OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft For NASA Lifted Off From Space

United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft for NASA.The Atlas V launched the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft into a hyperbolic trajectory away from Earth where it will begin a seven-year mission to return an asteroid sample. This is ULA's eighth launch in 2016 and the 111th successful launch since the company was formed in December 2006.

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