NASA Clears Psyche Metal Asteroid Mission Spacecraft For Assembly

Artist's concept of Psyche mission spacecraft.
Credit: SSL/ASU/P. Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech
HOUSTON—Psyche, the first-ever mission developed to explore a planetary body made of metal rather than ice or rocky material, has cleared a key NASA review milestone that is to bring the nearly $1 billion mission’s hardware and science instruments together at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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