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Various of OSIRIS-REx instruments in laboratory GRAPHIC: Copyright of NASA Not dated ++MUTE++2. Shows animated graphic of instruments rotating VNR: Copyright of NASA Not dated++MUTE++3. Various of OSIRIS-REx instruments in laboratory 4. Mid of scientists working on OSIRIS-REx in laboratory GRAPHIC: Copyright of NASA Not dated ++MUTE++5. Extract of graphic sequence showing OSIRIS-REx instruments in operation VNR: Copyright of NASA Not dated++MUTE++6. Various of scientists assembling same OSIRIS-REx instruments from graphic in laboratory GRAPHIC: Copyright of NASA Not dated ++MUTE++7. Extract of graphic sequence showing OSIRIS-REx instruments will operate VNR: Copyright of NASA Not dated++MUTE++8. Close of same section of OSIRIS- RExAP Television Huntsville, Alabama - 10 August 20169. SOUNDBITE: (English) Scott Bellamy, Mission Manager, OSIRIS-REx \"We're going to travel out to the asteroid Bennu. It's going to take us approximately two years to get there, we're going to get there in 2018. We'll spend a little over a year studying the asteroid from close orbit and then we'll try to obtain a sample from Bennu and bring it back to Earth in 2023. From that sample we're hoping to give ourselves a better understanding of how our solar system was put together. Bennu is essentially it's a time capsule that's four and a half billion years old.\"GRAPHIC: Copyright of NASA Not dated+++MUTE+++10. Extract of animated graphic sequence showing proposed take off of rocket carrying OSIRIS-RExAP Television Huntsville, Alabama - 10 August 201611. SOUNDBITE: (English) Scott Bellamy, Mission Manager, OSIRIS-REx \"We'll blow nitrogen gas against the surface to try to stir up the material and trap it into a filter that's on the head of the arm. Then we'll back away from Bennu, see if we've collected what we believe will be enough sample. If we have, we'll store the sample in a special capsule called the Sample Return Capsule where it'll stay until we return to Earth in 2023.\"GRAPHIC: Copyright of NASANot dated++MUTE++12. Graphic animation of OSIRIS-REx scanning asteroid BennuAP Television Huntsville, Alabama — 10 August 201613. SOUNDBITE: (English) Scott Bellamy, Mission Manager, OSIRIS-REx\"We're going to try to bring back as little as two ounces and up to four and half pounds. So we're going try to bring back a lot of material so that we can share it with a lot of institutions, a lot of scientists and try to better understand our solar system.\"GRAPHIC: Copyright of NASANot dated++MUTE++14.  Graphic showing animated sequence of how the OSIRIS-REx will collect samples from the asteroid BennuAP Television Huntsville, Alabama - 10 August 201615. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barbara Cohen, planetary scientist, Marshall Space Flight Center\"Asteroids are the building blocks of our solar system. So we have meteorites that come to us on the Earth, they're pieces of asteroids that are out there in the solar system, recording things that happened very early in time, but we don't know exactly where those asteroids are that gave us the meteorites. We don't have a one-to-one match. We can't pick up a meteorite and figure out what asteroid it came from. So, to send a mission like OSIRIS-REx to Bennu gives us the ability to link the information that we have from meteorites with the asteroid parent body that they come from.\"GRAPHIC: Copyright of NASANot dated++MUTE++16.  Graphic showing animated sequence of how the OSIRIS-REx will collect samples from the asteroid BennuAP Television Huntsville, Alabama - 10 August 201617. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Cohen, planetary scientist, Marshall Space Flight Center \"Some of these near-Earth objects, that we call them, have close encounters with the Earth. Every time they have a close encounter with the Earth, their orbit changes a little bit and then we have to predict maybe they're going to come back to the Earth, or maybe they get thrown out of the solar system. But understanding those materials that get close to us is good for understanding whether they're going to hit us. It's also good for understanding whether we could use those as resources. If they come very close to us, maybe we can get there and start mining them and exploiting them.\"GRAPHIC: Copyright of NASANot dated++MUTE++18. Animated graphic comparing the size of  the asteroid Bennu with New York's Empire State building and Paris' Eiffel Tower19. Animated graphic sequence showing how the samples collected by OSIRIS-REx will be returned to earth LEAD IN:NASA's getting ready to launch America's first attempt to send a craft to an asteroid called Bennu and bring back to earth a pristine sample from it's surface.Scientists hope the OSIRIS-REx mission will not only shed light on the distant part of our universe, but also deter a potential collision with Earth in the 22nd century.STORYLINE:For scientists, Earth's origins are an ages-old mystery. Now, there's a new NASA mission in the search for answers.The target is an asteroid near to our Earth called Bennu.Mission manager Scott Belamy believes it's NASA's most exciting mission to date.He says: \"We're going to travel to the asteroid Bennu. It's going to take us approximately two years to get there, we're going to get there in 2018. We'll spend a little over a year studying the asteroid from close orbit and then we'll try to obtain a sample from Bennu and bring it back to Earth in 2023. From that sample we're hoping to give ourselves a better understanding of how our solar system was put together. Bennu is essentially it's a time capsule that's four and a half billion years old.\"It will be a long mission. Even if the instruments are successful in sampling the asteroid it will be several years before the scientists who send off OSIRIS-REx get whatever is retieved into a laboratory down here.OSIRIS-REx will approach the surface of Bennu very slowly. Scientists at NASA will then operate its sample collection mechanism called TAGSAM, that's the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism. It's an 11-foot arm that will extend from the spacecraft as it manoeuvres slowly to the surface of the asteroid making contact with it. Bellamy explains what happens next: \"We'll blow nitrogen gas against the surface to try to stir up the material and trap it into a filter that's on the head of the arm. Then we'll back away from Bennu, see if we've collected what we believe will be enough sample. If we have, we'll store the sample in a special capsule called the Sample Return Capsule where it'll stay until we return to Earth in 2023.\"Scientists say the asteroid itself is an unusual type and they're not sure what it's made from. Some of the questions they'll be asking is whether it has lot of of carbon, and perhaps a lot of water-bearing minerals.Bellamy says: \"We're going to try to bring back as little as two ounces and up to four and half pounds. So we're going try to bring back a lot of material so that we can share it with a lot of institutions, a lot of scientists and try to better understand our solar system.\"The Marshall Space Flight Center's planetary scientist Barbara Cohen says Bennu may throw up new questions as well as answers.She says: \"Asteroids are the building blocks of our solar system. So we have meteorites that come to us on the Earth, they're pieces of asteroids that are out there in the solar system, recording things that happened very early in time, but we don't know exactly where those asteroids are that gave us the meteorites. We don't have a one-to-one match. We can't pick up a meteorite and figure out what asteroid it came from. So, to send a mission like OSIRIS-REx to Bennu gives us the ability to link the information that we have from meteorites with the asteroid parent body that they come from.\"According to Cohen: \"Some of these near-Earth objects, that we call them, have close encounters with the Earth. Every time they have a close encounter with the Earth, their orbit changes a little bit and then we have to predict maybe they're going to come back to the Earth, or maybe they get thrown out of the solar system. But understanding those materials that get close to us is good for understanding whether they're going to hit us. It's also good for understanding whether we could use those as resources. If they come very close to us, maybe we can get there and start mining them and exploiting them.\"The launch is planned next Thursday (September 8 2016) when an Atlas V rocket will send the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its two-year journey to Bennu. In 2018, OSIRIS-REx will begin a detailed survey of Bennu, mapping out potential sample collection sites. The operation will require precision. OSIRIS-REx is the size of a sports utility vehicle and Bennu is taller than some of the world's landmarks for example Empire State Building in New York and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It's also  wider.OSIRIS-REx is part of NASA's New Frontiers program, which includes missions to Jupiter and Pluto.Collectively they aim to increase our fundamental knowledge of the Earth we live on, the solar system we live in and the universe at large.At the end of the Bennu mission scientists hope to peep through a window into the Earth's earliest days.Late in the 22nd century, scientists say the asteroid itself could come dangerously close to Earth.As well as understanding how our vital resources arrived here scientists also hope to gain an understanding of how the solar system was formed and created, that way we can start understanding how other planets formed.====Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com. 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