WATCH LIVE Launch Week of Mars’ InSight: 1st Planetary Mission to Take Off from West Coast

 

InSight, the first planetary mission to take off from the West Coast, is targeted to launch at 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT) from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket.

 

 

 

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