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NASA Is Sending a Spacecraft to a Metal Asteroid | VIDEO

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NASA Is Sending a Spacecraft to a Metal Asteroid

     An ambitious mission to a "world made of metal" will help scientists better understand how Earth and other rocky planets evolved, according to a new video from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
By Elizabeth Howell
Space.com
4-11-18

The Psyche mission will depart Earth in 2022. The original plan called for a launch in 2023, but NASA moved up the timeline to save on cost and arrive at the asteroid sooner. Under the new plan, the spacecraft will pick up speed with a Mars flyby and arrive at the asteroid, also called Psyche, in early 2026.

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