Preparations are underway Space Launch Complex 3E on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to uncover the newly arrived first stage booster of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket for NASA's InSight mission for its lift into the mobile service tower. The mission is scheduled to launch in March 2016 and land on Mars in September 2016. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will study processes that formed and shaped Mars
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Preparations are underway Space Launch Complex 3E on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to uncover the newly arrived first stage booster of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket for NASA's InSight mission for its lift into the mobile service tower. The mission is scheduled to launch in March 2016 and land on Mars in September 2016. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will study processes that formed and shaped Mars