InSight Spacecraft Arrival
After a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, ground crews have offloaded NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, spacecraft designed to land on Mars. InSight was developed and built by Lockheed-Martin Space Systems in Denver, Colorado, and is scheduled for liftoff is May 5, 2018. 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.
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VAFB-20180228-PH_DNH01_0053
Date Created
February 28, 2018
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KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
USAF 30th Space Wing/Dan Herrera
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