NASA Psyche Spacecraft Launches On Mission Of Firsts

Irene Klotz October 13, 2023
Credit: NASA/SpaceX
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, making a debut mission for NASA, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 13 to send the Psyche spacecraft on an unprecedented mission to explore a planetary body made mostly of metal. NASA and other space agencies have robotically explored rock, ice and gas worlds...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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