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UCF will be home to NASA’s Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (referred to as CLASS) beginning later this year, thanks to a $6 million grant awarded this week to UCF physics professor Daniel Britt. The research center puts UCF on the agency’s space-exploration map. CLASS will provide critical research in areas NASA has identified as key to future…