Psyche Prelaunch News Conference . Henry Stone, Psyche project manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, participates in a Psyche mission prelaunch news conference at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Psyche is the first mission to explore an asteroid with a surface that likely contains substantial amounts of metal rather than rock or ice. Liftoff of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, is targeted for 10:16 EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.

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