Buckley AFB assists as OSIRIS-REx makes its journey to Florida

Photo By Airman 1st Class Luke Nowakowski | 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)  

BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, CO, UNITED STATES

05.20.2016

Story by Airman 1st Class Luke Nowakowski 

460th Space Wing

BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- 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.

• Date Taken: 05.20.2016
• Date Posted: 05.21.2016 11:33
• Story ID: 198702
• Location: BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, CO, US