InSight Atlas V Booster Transport
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster is transported to Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket will launch 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-20180302-PH_RKB01_0040
Date Created
March 2, 2018
Center
KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA/Randy Beaudoin
Location
B7525; SLC-3
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