Press Event
Psyche Mission and Science Briefing
KSC, Florida Falcon Heavy | Psyche
Psyche Mission and Science Briefing on NASA TV with the following participants:
- Lori Glaze, Planetary Science Division director, NASA Headquarters
- Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Psyche principal investigator, Arizona State University
- Ben Weiss,Deputy principal investigator and magnetometer lead, MIT
- David Oh, chief engineer for operations, JPL
- Abi Biswas, Deep Space Optical Communications project technologist, JPL
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