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LA Times Today: As an LAUSD student, his dream took flight — all the way to JPL and Mars

LA Times Today: As an LAUSD student, his dream took flight — all the way to JPL and Mars

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NASA is getting ready to send a spacecraft to an asteroid as part of the Psyche Mission. The asteroid is orbiting between the sun, Mars and Jupiter and the probe will study what it’s made of.

This mission could provide clues into how the solar system’s rocky planets are formed.

L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez recently introduced us to Luis Dominguez, who is a NASA systems engineer and a team leader from South L.A., is helping to build the Psyche spacecraft.

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