"SpaceX and NASA Team Up for Historic Psyche Metal Asteroid Mission"

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"SpaceX and NASA Team Up for Historic Psyche Metal Asteroid Mission"
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket is set to launch NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which will study the metallic asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The launch was delayed by a day due to bad weather, but is now scheduled for October 13th. The Falcon Heavy, consisting of three strapped-together first stages of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, will attempt to land its side boosters in Florida after liftoff. The central booster will make its first and only flight and is expected to fall into the Atlantic Ocean. The Psyche mission aims to provide insights into the early days of the solar system and the planet-formation process.

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