NASA has announced two missions to explore the early Solar System by studying the metallic asteroid Psyche and perform the first orbital reconnaissance of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.<br/><br/>Chosen out of 27 submissions, each investigative team received 3 million dollars to design concept studies. The two selected missions will cost approximately 500 million dollars each, not including launch and post-launch operations. <br/><br/>The two missions have been dubbed "Lucy" and "Psyche." According to the NASA news release the mission will help scientists understand how planets and other bodies separated into their layers, including cores, mantles and crusts, early in their histories.