InSight Atlas V Centaur Stage Prep for Transport
At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a cover is installed on a Centaur upper stage in preparation for its transport to Space Launch Complex 3. The Centaur will be mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to boost NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, mission to land on Mars. InSight is the first mission to explore the Red Planet's deep interior. It will investigate processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system including Earth. Liftoff is scheduled for May 5, 2018.
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NASA ID
VAFB-20180227-PH_RKB01_0034
Date Created
February 27, 2018
Center
KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA/Randy Beaudoin
Location
B7525
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