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UCF scientist working on NASA asteroid sample mission sharing experience with students
ORLANDO, Fla. – A member of NASA’s first asteroid sample collection mission team and UCF planetary scientist is teaching a class about asteroids and comets just hours before the mission he has been working on for a decade is set to collect a sample of the asteroid Bennu.“I’m actually going to take part of the class today to give them an update on what’s happening with the spacecraft,” said UCF Prof. Humberto Campins, adding “They have an exam a week from today, so they’re thinking more about the exam.”The spacecraft, nicknamed OSIRIS-REx, will not be on the exam, he says, but it is very timely for his class.[LIVE UPDATES: Follow along as NASA’s spacecraft picks up a piece of asteroid]“I just want them to be excited,” he said.