Canadian company MDA contracted to provide engineering support for NASA's asteroid mission.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is on its way to asteroid Bennu, will search for the elusive Trojan asteroids during its journey.
Carrying a sample of the asteroid from billion of years ago, scientists can investigate where humans come from.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is all set to take off on Thursday for the groundbreaking asteroid Bennu mission.
NASA has set the launch date of its first asteroid-sampling mission, the OSIRIS REx spacecraft on September 8 with the hopes of harvesting a large quantity of samples from the near-Earth asteroid ‘Bennu’.
NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth, that will help scientists investigate origin of life as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth.
