Journey to a Metal World

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a Foundation and Regents professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, vice president of the ASU Interplanetary Initiative, and Principal Investigator (PI) of NASA's Psyche mission. She’s also one of the few people in the world who has an asteroid named after her (Google: "Asteroid 8252 Elkins-Tanton"). In this episode she gives a behind-the-scenes look at her Psyche Discovery mission and shares the unusual career path that led her to become the second woman ever to lead a NASA mission.

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