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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its voyage to an asteroid of the same name, a metal-rich world that could tell us more about the formation of rocky planets. Psyche successfully launched at 10:19 a.m. EDT Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Nasa’s Psyche spacecraft rocketed away on Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — After abiding NASA’s request to give its Psyche mission on a Falcon Heavy launch its full attention this week, SpaceX lined up and knocked out a Falcon 9 launch just hours later on Friday. The day began with Falcon Heavy making its eighth ever flight lifting off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A cutting through haze and clouds at 10:19 a.m. to successfully bring to ...

NASA Probe Goes After Mysterious Metallic Asteroid

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Space Coast witnessed a rare launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Friday on a mission for NASA that also featured the double sonic booms of its returning first-stage boosters. Flying for only the eighth time ever, and its ever launch for NASA, the Falcon Heavy, which is essentially three Falcon 9 boosters strapped together, avoided weather concerns for a 10:19 ...

Named after the asteroid it is chasing, Psyche should reach the huge, potato-shaped object in 2029.

NASA spacecraft 'Psyche' left for an asteroid believed to have rare metals that hold clues to the understanding the universe. The spacecraft will travel a whopping 2 billion miles

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The Space Coast witnessed a rare launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Friday on a mission for NASA that also featured the double sonic booms of its returning first-stage boosters. Flying for only the eighth time ever, and its ever launch for NASA, the Falcon Heavy, which is essentially three Falcon 9 boosters strapped together, avoided weather concerns for a ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid.