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So OSIRIS-REx is a mission of discovery to the primitive building blocks

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that we think made our planet so special billions of years ago.

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We’re going back in time to measure, touch, taste and feel the kind of object that

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we think seeded our planet with the chemical building blocks that may have led to life.

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And those questions have been on our minds, literally, for generations on this planet.

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The robotic mission will first map the asteroid in exquisite detail, and then

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touch and high five the asteroid with a landerless landing to bring back the first samples from a planetary object since Apollo brought back samples from the moon in 1972.

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When those samples come back to Earth they’ll be spread across the laboratory basis of scientific research on the planet.

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All the future women and men science leaders of the planet will have these samples to look at this kind of object throughout time –

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how it connects to us, life and the whole universe.

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That’s OSIRIS-REx.