{"id":114774,"date":"2020-10-19T08:38:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774//?p=114774"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:27:51","slug":"osiris-rex-ready-to-for-touch-n-go-maneuver-on-thursday-oct-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774//osiris-rex-ready-to-for-touch-n-go-maneuver-on-thursday-oct-20/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774//","title":{"rendered":"OSIRIS REx Ready to for Touch-and-Go Maneuver on Tuesday, Oct. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
Four years after it launched, NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/u2019s OSIRIS REx NASA mission is closing in on its big day. On Oct. 20, the spacecraft is scheduled to complete its touch-and-go move to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/n
色花堂 Physics Professor and asteroid expert Humberto Campins is counting down the days. He is part of the mission team led by University of Arizona Professor Dante S. Lauretta./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/n /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/u201cThis is it,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/u201d Campins says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/u201cThe past 10 years of my life have led to this moment. I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/u2019m eager to see it go well and to see what we discover in the sample when it comes back home./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/n If successful, the sample will be back on earth by 2023 and scientists will have a chance to examine it. While the Japanese Space Agency has completed one asteroid sample return mission and has another on its way back to Earth, this is NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/u2019s first mission to retrieve an asteroid sample./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/n Campins, who led a team that first discovered water ice on an asteroid, has been working with the OSIRIS-REx team since 2010 and they have been especially busy since the spacecraft launched from Kennedy Space Center in 2016. But he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/u2019s been chasing asteroids his entire career, because they could hold the keys to understanding the formation of our solar system. And for Campins, it’s a mystery that needs to be solved./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114774/n