In the Press Site auditorium of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA and industry leaders speak to media at a post-launch news conference following the liftoff of NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. From left are: George Diller of NASA Communications; Ellen Stofan, NASA chief scientist; Jim Green, NASA Planetary Division director; Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson; Scott Messer, program manager for NASA Missions at United Launch Alliance in Centennial, Colorado; Rich Kuhns, OSIRIS-REx program manager for Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver. OSIRIS-REx lifted off atop an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:05 p.m. EDT.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett