NASA launched the Psyche spacecraft on Friday, October 13, 2023, from Florida on its way to Psyche, the largest of the several metal-rich asteroids known in our solar system. The Psyche probe, folded inside the cargo bay of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, was launched from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on a planned journey 2.2 billion miles (3.5 billion km) through space. The spacecraft is expected to reach its target on the outer fringes of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter nearly six years from now.