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+  "date": "2023-10-17T18:13:05.000Z",
+  "title": "Preparing Psyche for Launch",
+  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/preparing-psyche-for-launch/",
+  "imageUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/53249268834-bf55bf68f7-o-1.jpg",
+  "imageAlt": "In the foreground, a plant with several small white and yellow flowers is in focus near a grassy hill. In the distance, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and Psyche spacecraft roll out of a large rectangular building with \"SpaceX\" and an American flag on the side.",
+  "author": "Monika Luabeya"
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+A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the [Psyche spacecraft](https://science.nasa.gov/mission/psyche/spacecraft/) onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the horizontal integration facility on Oct. 10, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as preparations continue for the [Psyche mission](https://science.nasa.gov/mission/psyche/). NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel to a metal-rich asteroid by the same name orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter to study its composition. The spacecraft also carries the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration, which will test laser communications beyond the Moon.
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+If all goes as planned, asteroid Psyche’s gravity will capture the spacecraft in late July 2029, and Psyche will begin its prime mission in August. It will spend about two years orbiting the asteroid to take pictures, map the surface, and collect data to determine Psyche’s composition.
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+NASA and SpaceX are targeting [Friday, Oct. 13, 2023](https://blogs.nasa.gov/psyche/2023/10/11/weather-delays-nasas-psyche-launch-now-targeting-oct-13/?linkId=240996305), at 10:19 a.m. EDT for launch from Kennedy Space Center. Watch the launch on [NASA TV](https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/).
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+_Image Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani_

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+  "date": "2023-10-17T17:00:37.000Z",
+  "title": "Seeing Baja California Sur From Space",
+  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/seeing-baja-california-sur-from-space/",
+  "imageUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/iss070e003846orig.jpg",
+  "imageAlt": "The north coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur on the Pacific Ocean is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above. The land is brown, with some smaller bodies of water. The northern coastline is scalloped. A few streaks of clouds stretch across land and water, but the sky is mostly cloudless.",
+  "author": "Monika Luabeya"
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+The crew of the International Space Station saw this view of the north coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur as the space station orbited 258 miles above on Oct. 14, 2023.
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+In 24 hours, the space station makes 16 orbits of Earth, traveling through 16 sunrises and sunsets. The station’s orbital path takes it over 90 percent of the Earth’s population, with astronauts taking millions of images of the planet below. [See more photos of our planet here](https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).
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+_Image credit: NASA_