In a historic moment for space exploration, NASA’s Psyche Mission launched on its journey to study an enigmatic metallic asteroid today. Psyche, a first-of-its-kind mission, soared into the heavens atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, heralding a new era in interplanetary exploration.
The Psyche spacecraft embarks on a historic mission to explore a metallic space rock in the asteroid belt.
The much-anticipated liftoff took place at 10:19 a.m. EDT from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, marking several firsts in the annals of space exploration.
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While SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy previously launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster past the orbit of Mars in 2018, Psyche is the rocket’s first official interplanetary mission. Additionally, Psyche is the inaugural NASA mission to lift off aboard a Falcon Heavy.
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