NASA's Asteroid-Analysing Explorer Launches From Cape Canaveral

An ambitious mission to collect dust from an asteroid and return it to Earth for scientific analysis has blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft will take 23 months to reach Bennu, a 500m-wide asteroid which scientists believe contains perfectly preserved material from 4.5 billion years ago when it and the rest of the solar system was formed.