Psyche Spacecraft Is Slated To Travel To Metal Asteroid

Irene Klotz Mark Carreau September 12, 2023
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft

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Credit: Ben Smegelsky/NASA
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the principal investigator for NASA’s upcoming mission to the asteroid Psyche, sheepishly confesses that the $10-quadrillion estimate of the value of iron, nickel and gold contained in the asteroid—a figure cited in Forbes, Reuters and other financial news outlets—came from her...
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.

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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