NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Mission Kickstarts Outreach Budget With Card Game

The head of NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid sample-return probe plans to crowdfund a public outreach budget for the mission on Kickstarter by selling a card game in which players compete to build their own space missions. The game, Xtronaut, was designed by Dante Lauretta, a University of Arizona Tucson professor and principal investigator for Osiris-Rex: A roughly $1 billion NASA New Frontiers mission set to launch in September 2016 and return an asteroid sample to Earth in 2023. NASA miss