NASA Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal World

Psyche is both the name of an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter — and the name of a NASA space mission to visit that asteroid, led by Arizona State University. Join the Psyche team to explore why this mission was selected for NASA’s Discovery Program, how we’ll get to the asteroid, what we hope to learn from Psyche, and the importance of scientific discovery.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Peter Rubin/SSL

[rosysinha]

Videos like these...strengthen my dream to join NASA explore the deep space..😀😀

[emilyd.]

I love this idea and it will be there when I am out of college and I will be hopeful working for NASA, and I will see this project at it’s fullest!!! Yay I’m excited. Can’t wait till this happens only 8 more year and be working for NASA!!!

[whitegrissomchaffee]

Cannot wait to follow this amazing journey

[martythemartian]

Last year I wrote a story about political problems on a future Mars Colony forcing humans from Earth to go to the Asteroid Belt to build their next outpost. They started construction of their first base at 16 Psyche. So with this new mission from NASA, now I'll get the chance to find out how wrong what I wrote really was. Cool :)

[agschwend]

This is so awesome! I literally cried watching this video and feeling the vibe and the motivation of you people. Thank you for that

[mlmyndlife]

Haaa... I feel so sentimental, unbelievable that our universe is sooo huge about billions of light years and we are still discovering our solar system but it feels as something which has no words to describe it... It might take over another 1 billion year to discover and colonize our whole big milky way but we enjoy a huge amount of happiness during the progress... And as being a student who is interested in space more than any thing this makes me more happier that I am a part of this metal and rocky world. This brings out more interest for me to discover more in space beyond what this generation will leave for us as next generation... I am completely fixed to explore the deep space as an astronaut... Proud to be a human.

[vinaykamal]

It's gonna be awesome
New researches 👍👍

[nicosmind]

So August 2022. That'll probably be about 10 years before James Webb

[benschofield]

That's nuts, should be really interesting!

[BunnySkrProductions]

After studying it could we haul it back and use it as materials for star ships?

[freemanlowell]

Very cool, amazing what we find in our own solar system alone. Can't wait to follow this mission.

[nealsterling]

I hope i can witness it. Wish them all the best!

[julopabene]

“The first metal object humankind ever visited” and yet we have people on the ISS everyday :P
(Just kidding, this is really interesting; will there be opportunities to construct future spacecraft using materials from Psyche? Or are there better options?)

[Darkchylde]

I didn't know such a thing existed!

[stella]

It is always nice to see when asteroid missions are approved. The images from Rosetta blew my mind, and I hope that this metal world will to :)

[nextdoortechnology]

Awesome and great we love you guys its gonna be amazing!

[David-zylr]

THIS IS AWESOME!

I wonder what it is worth

[Darkchylde]

That's so badass! I hope we can get there sooner x)

[papabearpaw]

The best of luck to all of you and great work and congrats on this mission. It'll be a blast eh.

[dmab]

This is awesome. I love watching your videos, especially the ones from the ISS. Congratulations and good luck. Wish it was going to happen now but I guess I can wait.