NASA | NASA selects OSIRIS-REx as New Frontiers Mission

OSIRIS-Rex will visit asteroid 1999 RQ36 and return with samples
that may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and life on
Earth. For the mission, NASA has selected the team led by Principal
Investigator Dr. Michael Drake from the University of Arizona. NASA
GSFC will manage the mission. Lockheed Martin will build the spacecraft.

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[LiberalJerseyman]

Thank you NASA. We should divert all money away from the wars and put it directly to NASA.

[handplanty]

No, I'm pretty sure "OSIRIS-REx", "Lisa", "Near Shoemaker", "MESSENGER" and "STEREO" are all coincidences ;)

[stripescheckers1]

RIP Michael Drake

[Jacob Rourke]

I can't hear a word your saying!

[Derek Bradley]

The stupid music is too loud relevant to the narrator

[bwith41]

Get rid of the conflicting "music" why split people's attention when they want to focus on information content?

[docatomics]

...what if some interlopers moved into Yorick's skull to hitch a ride;

~would it still be lifeless if the DNA and Data was in stasis ?

=what if we put life arcs into these little space vessels and harnessed the collapse shock of new born full blown singularity as rocket fuel; seeing how none seems interested in recycling those crappy old space shuttles thingys to see if they might make it threw the engorging heliopuase

[Janet McMillan]

That background noise was too much!! It made me disgusted that such great news was degraded by someone's stupid judgment to include unintelligible sounds. Was that intended to be "outer space muzak?"

[uradragon]

Like totally cool. I might have like kicked the bucket by 23 but it's like for the children ya know.

[johnno1948]

Looks interesting. A pity (as someone else noted), that the commentary was inaudible above the annoying "background" music.

[Anokaman]

Why the stupid music on top of the dialog? Almost like a hunting show loaded with unwanted hard rock. I wonder how much "samples" and will it be just surface, shallow, and/or deep?