Psyche Mission NASA Social Panel

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NASA is sending the spacecraft to an asteroid named Psyche, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, to learn how Earth and other rocky planets formed. This will be the first mission to an asteroid with substantial amounts of metal, as previous missions have explored asteroids made mostly of rock or ice. The asteroid Psyche may be part of the interior of a planetesimal, a building block of a rocky planet. By studying it, scientists seek to determine whether the asteroid was a planetary core. Launch is targeted for 10:16 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Tune in for our NASA Social panel including the following participants: Bob Cabana, Associate Administrator of NASA Eric Durnberg, Dynamic Environments Analyst for NASA's Launch Services Program Haley Bates-Tarasewicz, Psyche Systems Engineer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Malcom Wright, DSOC uplink and downlink laser lead, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Credit: NASA Follow NASA's Kennedy Space Center! X: x.com/NASAKennedy Facebook: facebook.com/NASAKennedy Instagram: instagram.com/nasakennedy/ YouTube: youtube.com.@nasakennedy #NASA #Psyche

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