{"id":15291,"date":"2016-08-23T21:42:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-osiris-rex-prepped-for-encapsulation\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T21:42:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:42:40","slug":"photos-osiris-rex-prepped-for-encapsulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-osiris-rex-prepped-for-encapsulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: OSIRIS-REx prepped for encapsulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to be sealed inside the nose fairing of its Atlas 5 rocket booster for a seven-year voyage to asteroid Bennu and back to Earth on a mission to seek out clues to the origin of life and the chaotic early solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The solar-powered, 4,651-pound (2,110-kilogram) spacecraft is inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Since arriving at KSC on May 20 from its Lockheed Martin factory in Denver, OSIRIS-REx has been checked out, fueled and tested for launch.<\/p>\n<p>Many of NASA\u2019s robotic solar system missions have prepared for launch inside the PHSF, including the Curiosity Mars rover, the Cassini orbiter at Saturn, and the Stardust spacecraft that returned samples from a comet\u2019s coma.<\/p>\n<p>OSIRIS-REx will be encapsulated inside the Atlas 5 nose cone, seen in the background of these images, later this week and transported to Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad Aug. 29, where ground crews will stack the payload on top of the rocket\u2019s Centaur upper stage.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is set for Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17855\" style=\"width: 1050px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17855\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7109.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Ben Cooper\/Launchphotography.com\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7109.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7109-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7109-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7109-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Ben Cooper\/Launchphotography.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17856\" style=\"width: 1050px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17856\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7111.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Ben Cooper\/Launchphotography.com\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7111.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7111-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7111-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7111-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Ben Cooper\/Launchphotography.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17857\" style=\"width: 1050px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17857\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7119.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Ben Cooper\/Launchphotography.com\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7119.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7119-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7119-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7119-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Ben Cooper\/Launchphotography.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17858\" style=\"width: 1050px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17858\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7122-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Ben Cooper\/Launchphotography.com\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7122-1.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7122-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7122-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7122-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Ben Cooper\/Launchphotography.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17859\" style=\"width: 1050px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17859\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7123.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Ben Cooper\/Launchphotography.com\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7123.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7123-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7123-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7123-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Ben Cooper\/Launchphotography.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to be sealed inside the nose fairing of its Atlas 5 rocket booster for a seven-year voyage to asteroid Bennu and back to Earth on a mission to seek out clues to the origin of life and the chaotic early solar system. The solar-powered, 4,651-pound (2,110-kilogram) spacecraft is inside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1519,724,3600,1526,472,2020,1527,3622],"class_list":["post-15291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asteroids","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-067","tag-bennu","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-new-frontiers","tag-osiris-rex","tag-phsf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}