NASA Craft Gets 1,000-Mph Boost as It Brushes Past Mars on Metal World Mission
PASADENA, California, May 27, 2026, 04:04 PDT Psyche, NASA’s spacecraft, picked up speed and changed course using Mars as a gravity assist, notching an important navigation milestone. The six-year trek now continues toward a metal-rich asteroid, one of the solar system’s odder objects. NASA reported that on May 15, the spacecraft swept just 2,864 miles (4,609 km) from Mars, picking
