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    NASA Selects OSIRIS-REx as first US Asteroid Sampling Mission

    NASA officials announced the selection of OSIRIS-Rex as the next US robotic science mission and which will pave the way for an eventual manned mission to an asteroid. OSIRIS-Rex will be the first US mission to collect and return samples of an asteroid to Earth. OSIRIS-Rex is planned for launch to the near Earth asteroid [...]

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    You've got to wonder who comes up with these acronyms. It took an awful lot of word-wedging to make this one.
    STARGAZING: All I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. --Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary

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    Also, it's half Egyptian and half Roman. But I don't think engineers are required to know a lot of mythology, so I'll let that slide.

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