SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center: photos

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Media cameras are positioned atop NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, targeting a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, Friday morning, Oct. 13, 2023. The mission will explore an asteroid that scientists hope will help solve the mysteries of our solar system for the benefit of humanity. . This involves, for the first time, studying a world composed mostly not of rock or ice, but of metal, to answer fundamental questions about Earth’s metallic core and the formation of our solar system.
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The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch on Friday, October 13, 2023. The Psyche spacecraft will also carry a technology demonstration, NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, which will test the next generation way to communicate from space.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket exhaust detail at liftoff.
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center at 10:19 a.m. EDT on Friday, October 13, 2023.
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter to study its composition.
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People watch from Canaveral National Seashore to watch the launch.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches on Friday, October 13, 2023.
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket boosters return to Landing Zone 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station after launch.
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Crowds on a beach at Cape Canaveral watch the first two booster rockets land about eight minutes after launch.
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Two side boosters from SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket successfully landed in the company’s landing zone at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, October 13, 2023, just minutes after NASA launched Psyche from Kennedy Space Center.
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Two side boosters from SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket successfully landed in the company’s landing zone at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, October 13, 2023, just minutes after NASA launched Psyche from Kennedy Space Center.
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