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Lucy, led by Harold Levison of the Southwest Research Institute, will launch first, in 2021. It will visit a main belt asteroid in 2025 before reaching its final destination, two groups of asteroids known as Trojans in the same orbit around the sun as Jupiter. The spacecraft will visit six Trojan asteroids from 2027 to 2033.

Psyche, led by Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University, will launch in 2023 and make flybys of the Earth and Mars in 2024 and 2025, respectively, before arriving in 2030 at the main belt asteroid Psyche, thought to be the remnant of a core of a small planet destroyed in the early history of the solar system.

NASA selected Lucy and Psyche over three other finalists. Two were missions to Venus: an orbiter called Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy (VERTIAS) and an atmospheric probe called Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI). The other was Near Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), a space telescope designed to look for near Earth asteroids.

http://spacenews.com/nasa-selects-two-asteroid-missions-for-discovery-program/

I'm kinda disappointed, NASA hasn't sent a spacecraft to Venus since 1989.