NASA's Next step to Mars, May 2018 Launch Date, Insight Mission

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NASA Sets Sights on May 5 Launch of InSight Mars Mission

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6 years 6 months ago #12530 by Glitch_Neo

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These are exciting times

I can only imagine what humanity will discover in my lifetime! to think 120 years back (4 generations or so) we used steam / coal / peat for energy... a blink in cosmological time - and we split the atom, and discover the building blocks of the universe with Quarks and the Higgs Boson etc... Exponential is the word that springs to mind!!

I'm like a kid in a sweet shop.... :dry:

I just wish I was more mathematically intelligent... this is my stumbling block lol

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NASA spacecraft will have company all the way to Mars

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6 years 6 months ago - 6 years 6 months ago #12573 by RocketDawg

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NASA Sets Sights on May 5 Launch of InSight Mars Mission

This mission just launched some 20 minutes ago from Vandenburg, right on time. All is going well so far.

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6 years 6 months ago #12579 by RocketDawg

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Quasar (or anybody else) ... any idea why NASA would launch a planetary mission from Vandenburg, which resilts in basically a polar orbit (unless you do some performance-degrading maneuvering)? All I can figure is they want to use the west coast facilities and exercise the ground ops capabilities.

It's obvious why DoD uses Vandenburg for many launches, but not a Mars mission.

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