It was only 5 years ago that NASA launched its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on a mission to visit the space rock known as Bennu. Bennu is a large rocky asteroid that served as a great subject for study, and NASA's trusty probe not only mapped its surface and made a bunch of observations, but also performed sample collection. The spacecraft is currently on its way back to Earth, but that's not stopping the space agency from preparing to send another high-tech craft in search of a totally different asteroid.
The new mission hopes to examine the asteroid known as Psyche up close. The probe, known informally as "the Psyche spacecraft" and lacking a name of its own at this stage, has gone through all of the component tests and various steps required of a NASA spacecraft and just entered its final assembly stage. NASA showcases the assembly process in a new blog post on its website.
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