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UA wins NASA asteroid project worth hundreds of millions

The University of Arizona has won a NASA contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to send an unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid that is potentially hazardous to Earth and bring back a sample.
The mission also will involve Arizona State University. UA will oversee the mission, called OSIRIS-REx, and ASU will build a critical instrument, similar to ones already in use on Mars, to analyse the asteroid's composition.
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NASA to Announce New Planetary Science Mission

NASA will host a media teleconference at 4:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 25, to discuss the selection of a future science mission that will usher in a new era in planetary exploration.
Jim Green, director for NASA's Planetary Science Division Mission in Washington, and other officials will take reporters' questions during the teleconference.
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