Psyche Prelaunch News Conference . A Psyche mission prelaunch news conference takes place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. From left, participants are: Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications; NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana; Nicola Fox, associate administrator, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate; Henry Stone, Psyche project manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Tim Dunn, senior launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program; Julianna Scheiman, director, Civil Satellite Missions, SpaceX; and Arlena Moses, launch weather officer, Space Force

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Psyche Prelaunch News Conference . A Psyche mission prelaunch news conference takes place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. From left, participants are: Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications; NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana; Nicola Fox, associate administrator, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate; Henry Stone, Psyche project manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Tim Dunn, senior launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program; Julianna Scheiman, director, Civil Satellite Missions, SpaceX; and Arlena Moses, launch weather officer, Space Force. 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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