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LOS ANGELES, June 2, 2026, 03:02 PDT NASA says its Psyche spacecraft is now set for a 2029 meeting with a metal-heavy asteroid, after slingshotting past Mars on May 15. That flyby delivered a 1,000 mile-per-hour speed bump, nudged the trajectory by about one degree, and cost the spacecraft zero propellant. Closest approach: 2,864 miles above the Martian surface. (NASA) Psyche is now past the final big planetary waypoint on its nearly 2.2 billion-mile journey to the asteroid belt. The team relied on a gravity assist, using Mars to tweak Psyche’s speed and trajectory—crucial for saving xenon gas that powers

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