metallic asteroid

Washington, Oct 13, NASA has successfully launched the Psyche mission, which aims to explore an asteroid rich in gold, diamond and platinum, on Friday. The Psyche spacecraft lifted off atop a Falcon Heavy rocket on October 13 at 10:19 AM EDT (7.49 PM IST) from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. “We have liftoff! NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, along with the agency’s DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications) technology demonstration,” NASA said in a blogpost. “Liftoff of Falcon Heavy!” SpaceX posted on X, formerly Twitter. Falcon Heavy's two side boosters came back to Earth for a landing at…