NASA’s 1st asteroid-sampler poised for evening liftoff

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft is poised for an evening liftoff. The spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, will be aiming for asteroid Bennu (BEHN’-oo). The probe will orbit the big black rock, vacuum up some gravel, then haul the sample back to Earth. The entire quest will take seven years. NASA has gone after […]