Photographers are on scene as the Space X rocket prepares to launch into orbit.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy departing from Kennedy Space Center.
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The Space X rocket departs for space.
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The spacecraft will travel to the metallic asteroid Psyche, where it will enter orbit in 2029 and be the first spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid.
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel to a metal-rich asteroid by the same name orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter to study its composition.
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People gather at the Canaveral National Seashore to watch the launch.
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The spacecraft departing Earth’s atmosphere into space.
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As the spacecraft departs Earth’s orbit, the smoke from the rocket is seen with the flames still visible.
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A side rocket landing in Cape Canaveral.
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Crowds on a beach in Cape Canaveral, watch the first of two boosters land about eight minutes after the launch.
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Two side boosters from SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket successfully land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023.
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This comes, just minutes after NASA’s Psyche launch from Kennedy Space Center.
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