SpaceX contracted by NASA to explore Psyche asteroid
Billionaire inventor Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX has been awarded a NASA deal worth 117 million USD for a mission to explore a mineral-heavy asteroid called Psyche, which is thought to contain clues to the evolution of terrestrial planets. SpaceX will be using a Falcon Heavy rocket for the mission at an amount considerably lower than expected for the large-scale mission.
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