to launch

For the first time ever, we are
exploring a world made not of rock or ice,
but of metal.

Image of the psyche spacecraft. Shows the plus shaped panels attached to the

Mission to a
Metal World

Deep within the terrestrial planets, including Earth, scientists infer the presence of metallic cores, but these lie unreachably far below the planets’ rocky mantles and crusts. The asteroid Psyche offers a unique window into these building blocks of planet formation and the opportunity to investigate a previously unexplored type of world.

About Psyche Mission

I was born with muscular dystrophy, a disease that gradually deteriorates my muscle in stages throughout my life. I thought that it would one day limit what I am able to do. This spurred an interest...

Students working with machinery and are experimenting.

While instruments and components of the spacecraft are under development across the country, the Psyche Mission management team, led by Arizona State University, is working with universities...

Psyche is in the center of the image and it is being engulfed by a colorful world of possibilities if it had became a planet.

Piloted at ASU last year, NASA Psyche mission’s “Psyche Inspired” program was expanded nationally this fall to include 15 interns from ASU and eight other institutions. The interns study...

This is the cover of the Psyche Inspired book for the Titanium Class. It shows the title, an outline of the Psyche spacecraft, and an artistic scribble of oranges, reds, and yellows.

Psyche Inspired was piloted at ASU during the 2017-2018 academic year. The artworks from the 2017-2018 Psyche Inspired interns, also known as Titanium Class, are displayed in a downloadable...

Along with the song is a lyric sheet. The lyric sheet is a one-page, horizontal sheet that contains the title "An Asteroid Named Psyche" in big bold letters at the top of the page. On either side of the title are two small graphics, both the same, of a circular cartoon asteroid in black and white. Underneath the title are the full lyrics, clumped into paragraphs for each separate verse and chorus. There is also a notated lead sheet which contains the notated melody with the chords written above the staff lines and the lyrics written below.

An Asteroid Named Psyche is a children’s song that follows the asteroid’s story. The purpose of the song was to be both educational and exciting for kids; Therefore, Ryan brought...

An angel and a women in the sky surrounded by stars.

When I was a little girl, I liked to read a book full of illustrated Greek myths. There were stories of thrilling heroes and grotesque monsters, of epic quests and tragic failures. Origin stories,...

Where Are We Now?

A space mission typically has six phases, A-F. The Psyche Mission is currently in “Phase B,” which lasts until May 2019. In this phase, the mission is focused on preliminary design.

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