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NASA picks Elon Musk's SpaceX to help with a $99 million mission that will map the creation of the universe

NASA has picked Elon Musk's SpaceX to help with an astrophysics mission dubbed SPHEREx.

SPHEREx, a space telescope, is due to launch via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2024 for a two-year mission.Visit the Business section of Insider for more storiesNASA has picked Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch a telescope into orbit for a two-year astrophysics mission starting 2024, the agency said in aSPHEREx is a space telescope that NASA said would survey the sky in near-infrared light, which the human eye can't see.

The mission was due to launch in June 2024, and would blast off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA said. The mission would search for water and organic molecules in areas where stars are formed from gas and dust, and find out if new planets are forming around stars, NASA said.

Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in 2019 the mission would"deliver an unprecedented galactic map containing 'fingerprints' from the first moments in the universe's history."

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Congrats to SpaceX

Really NASA & elonmusk? That's where your priorities lie? When the planet and societies are falling apart you want to worry about where it all began before we destroy it?

🤨There are enough resources for space exploration but not enough to feed the kids on earth🤔?

go elonmusk & congratulations

DOGECOİN CEO

You go play monopoly with your 99 milj and monkey

This is a false trail. Congratulations.

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