Dane Drefke, United Launch Alliance (ULA) lead engineer for Atlas V mechanical operations, speaks in Kennedy Space Center’s Neil Armstrong O&C Mission Briefing Room on April 16, 2019, during an employee event in which Dr. Humberto Campins from the University of Central Florida gave a status update on NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx). The first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, OSIRIS-REx launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sept. 8, 2016 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Management of the launch service for OSIRIS-REx was the responsibility of NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy.