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Hi I'm NASA Kennedy's Stephanie Martin taking
you Inside KSC.

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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was encapsulated
in the payload fairing and transported to

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Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station.

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The payload fairing was lifted and mated to
the Atlas V rocket in preparation for launch

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on September 8.

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During its seven-year mission, OSIRIS-REx
will travel to asteroid Bennu, map the asteroid’s

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surface using 3-D laser imaging, touch down
briefly to retrieve samples and return them

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to Earth for analysis.

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The heat shield for Exploration Mission 1
arrived at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle

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Landing Facility aboard NASA’s Super Guppy
aircraft.

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The Guppy was opened and the heat shield container
was offloaded for transport to the Neil Armstrong

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Operations and Checkout Building high bay.

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Orion’s heat shield will help it endure
the approximately 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit

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it will experience during reentry.

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Its first uncrewed flight atop NASA’s Space
Launch System rocket is scheduled for 2018.