NASA will soon launch a spacecraft on a six-year journey to visit Psyche. This strange rare metal-rich asteroid is different in its composition from most other objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which are composed primarily of a mixture of rock and smaller amounts of metal. The mission will launch on Thursday, October 12, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, traveling around 2.2 billion miles to reach its target. The spacecraft will go into
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