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NASA successfully launched its Psyche deep space probe from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Oct. 13, 2023. The probe is bound for a toward a metal-rich asteroid 2.2 billion miles away show in this illustration. The space agency thinks the asteroid between Mars and Jupiter may tell us more about the Earth’s formation. The program that launched the mission is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Psyche launched at approximately 9:20 a.m. CST on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch appeared flawless with the main boosters landing back at Cape Canaveral. “We ensure the project teams have all the resources they need to execute the project, monitor costs and schedules to keep the project on track and on time, and work closely with the payload and launch teams throughout the flight mission,” Brad Zavodsky, Psyche mission manager in Marshall’s Planetary Missions Program Office, said in a pre-launch interview.
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