NASA's Psyche Mission Will Study an Asteroid to Learn How Planets May Have Formed - NBC Southern California

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech and Arizona State University will launch the Psyche mission in August 2022, sending a spacecraft to a metal asteroid.

An upcoming NASA JPL mission is set to launch this August, and will mark a space exploration milestone: the Psyche mission will be the first time the space agency sends a probe to a world primarily m… [+4822 chars]

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