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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 ...
Weather on Florida's Space Coast will delay the liftoff of NASA's Psyche mission by at least a day, the agency announced Wednesday evening (Oct. 11).
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Oct. 12 launch of the agency's Psyche mission due to unfavorable weather conditions, according to a news release.
(NEXSTAR) — NASA’s Psyche mission is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Friday morning to start a nearly six-year mission to a “metal-rich” asteroid. The mission namesake is also the target: Asteroid 16 Psyche. While NASA has conducted a number of asteroid-related missions, including the recent return of its first asteroid samples, […]
The distant metallic asteroid named Psyche bears similarities to Earth's own core. That's why NASA scientists have wanted to study it for years.