NASA just started building its next asteroid probe – BGR

• NASA’s next asteroid mission will attempt to visit the space rock called 16 Psyche.
• The mission will, of course, include a spacecraft that will travel to the asteroid over the course of several years, eventually arriving in early 2026. 
• The spacecraft, which is slated to launch in mid-2020, is now officially in its assembly phase, with NASA engineers piecing together and testing the various components that will be used during the mission.

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