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Last Updated: Jun 12 2018 · 7:45 p.m.

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Boulder’s teenage environmentalist, climbs to a new stage this month

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and engineers rotate the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft for testing. (NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis)

A ULA rocket is ready to do its part in NASA’s first-ever asteroid return mission

A United Launch Alliance-made rocket is good to go for a seven-year mission into space. The objective this time: collect ancient space rocks.