After a one-year delay, NASA is finally set to launch its Psyche mission to the metal-rich asteroid of the same name. The launch is scheduled for Thursday at 10:16 a.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center and will be the first NASA scientific mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
The mission is expected to take six years to complete its 2.2 billion-mile journey to the Psyche asteroid, located between Mars and Jupiter.
Scientists hope the mission will offer new insights into Earth’s core and the formation of terrestrial planets by studying what they believe could be a partially exposed core of nickel-iron.
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