It was moving day, and Dante Lauretta was excited. "I could hardly sleep last night," he said, standing near a truck at Lockheed Martin's Denver campus on a recent Friday morning. Lauretta is the principal investigator for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), a NASA mission to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid. On the truck, inside a special climate-controlled container, was OSIRIS-REx, ready to travel from the Lockheed Martin factory where it was assembled to the Kennedy Space Center, where it will be prepared for a Sept. 8 launch on an Atlas 5.
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