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Season 3, Episode 1 of 45

Sitting on the asteroid Bennu, over a hundred million miles away from earth, are a few ounces of surface material that scientists are anxiously awaiting to get their hands on. They’d best be patient, as the University of Arizona led NASA mission to retrieve the sample OSIRIS-REx – is seven years away from bringing it back to earth. Watch this exciting behind-the-scenes look at the fourteen year $1 billion mission scheduled to launch in early September.

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9/4/2016
6:30 p.m.
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