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July 3, 2019 / Brooke Owen

NASA Psyche space mission arts program seeking undergraduates nationwide

The ASU-led NASA Psyche Mission is inviting undergraduate students from any university or community college in the U.S. and its territories to apply to become one of the space mission’s featured...

June 11, 2019 / NASA

NASA’s Psyche Mission Has a Metal World in Its Sights

Designed to explore a metal asteroid that could be the heart of a planet, the Psyche mission is readying for a 2022 launch. After extensive review, NASA Headquarters in Washington has approved...

May 7, 2019 / Karin Valentine

ASU-led NASA Psyche Mission invites the public to be ‘spacecrafty’

The ASU-led NASA Psyche Mission, a journey to a unique metal world, has been inspiring professional and amateur artists since the announcement of the mission’s selection by NASA in early 2017....

April 18, 2019 / Karin Valentine

ASU-led NASA Psyche Mission to offer free online courses to learn about space exploration

The NASA Psyche Mission is a journey to a unique metal world called Psyche, an asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The mission is currently in development and the spacecraft will...
Students working with machinery and are experimenting.

January 30, 2019 / Karin Valentine

NASA’s Psyche Mission inspires science and engineering students nationwide

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.

December 18, 2018 / Alexandra Cook

NASA’s Psyche mission comes to life through the creativity of a team of artists

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.

October 18, 2018 / Brooke Owen

PSYCHE INSPIRED – TITANIUM CLASS: A COLLECTION OF ARTWORKS

The works from the 2017-2018 Psyche Inspired cohort are collected in a downloadable book that tells the story of Psyche through musical scores, sculptures, painting, 3-D models, photography,...
This 8 panel pop-art poster shows a stylized drawing of the Psyche spacecraft in the colors of the Psyche badge (purples, pinks, and oranges).

August 16, 2018 / Karin Valentine

NASA Psyche space mission seeking undergraduates to help inspire the public

Beginning this month, the Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche Mission is expanding its innovative “Psyche Inspired” arts program to the national stage, inviting undergraduate...

June 25, 2018 / Models and Materials

Psyche Spacecraft Lego Model

Download the parts list and watch how to make your own LEGO model of the Psyche spacecraft:

This picture shows 10 psyche inspired interns in the psyche photo booth holding psyche props.

April 23, 2018 / Brooke Owen

School of Earth and Space Exploration hosts ‘Psyche Inspired’ art showcase

An inaugural class of students displayed their space-mission inspired works of art.

April 3, 2018 / Karin Valentine

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...
This illustration shows a black background with a white outine of the Psyche spacecraft and slashes of yellow, red, and orange.

March 20, 2018 / Scott Seckel

Inspired by ASU NASA mission, students create space art

Students at Arizona State University from 13 different majors submitted unique interpretations of the emotions surrounding the Psyche exploration mission.