Members from Lockheed Martin, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the University of Arizona load a spacecraft on a C-17 Globemaster III, assigned to Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, May 20, 2016, on Buckley Air Force Base, Colo. The spacecraft being loaded is the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, a robotic space probe that will intercept an asteroid named Bennu in order to gather samples to be tested for organic material. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Luke W. Nowakowski/Released)
Members from Lockheed Martin, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the University of Arizona loaded a spacecraft on a C-17 Globemaster III, assigned to Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, May 20 at Buckley Air Force Base.
The spacecraft being loaded was the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, a robotic space probe that will intercept an asteroid named Bennu in order to gather samples to be tested for organic material.