Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the agencys Psyche spacecraft - recently removed from its shipping container and inside a protective covering - is moved by crane to a work stand on Monday, May 2, 2022. Psyche is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Aug. 1, 2022. The spacecraft will use solar-electric propulsion to travel approximately 1.5 billion miles to rendezvous with its namesake asteroid in 2026. The Psyche mission is led by Arizona State University. NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California, is responsible for the missions overall management, system engineering, integration and testing, and mission operations. Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto, California, provided the high-power solar electric propulsion spacecraft chassis. NASAs Launch Services Program (LSP), based at Kennedy, is managing the launch. Psyche will be the 14th mission in the agen