From the Curiosity Mars rover to the Cassini orbiter at Saturn, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a long history creating, building and flying missions that explore our solar system. In January 2017, Psyche, a mission led by Arizona State University (ASU) and managed and built by JPL, was selected as the latest addition to NASA's Discovery program. Psyche will explore a unique body in our solar system: a 200 km diameter world made almost entirely of metal. David Oh, former lead flight director for the Curiosity Rover and Project Systems engineer for Psyche, will describe how JPL creates unique missions like Psyche, taking wild ideas from initial conception through development to the decision to fund for flight. David will also describe how innovation can occur within a risk averse environment, and how Psyche's unique architecture brings advanced commercial space technology to NASA's deep space missions.