The NASA Psyche mission: First Journey to an Unknown World
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The NASA Psyche mission: First Journey to an Unknown World
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Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley,
Apr. 8, 2026.
The NASA Psyche mission is on its way to orbit a small but immensely ancient world in our asteroid belt: A metallic object, the first humans will ever have visited. When our solar system was in its infancy, thousands of planetesimals (tiny planet-like objects) formed in less than a million years. Many planetesimals later melted, allowing metal cores to form inside rocky mantles. One of these metal cores may be revealed in the asteroid (16) Psyche. Dr. Elkins-Tanton, the Mission Lead, takes us behind the scenes in planning and carrying out this remarkable mission of exploration, which launched in 2023, and updates us of where we are over two years post-launch.