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19:28, 05-May-2018
NASA blasts off Mars-bound spacecraft to study quakes
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NASA on Saturday blasted off a 993-million-US-dollar spaceship called InSight, designed to study quakes on Mars and learn about its inner workings ahead of eventual human missions to explore the Red Planet.
"Three, two, one, liftoff!" said a NASA commentator as the spacecraft launched on a dark, foggy morning atop an Atlas V rocket at 4:05 am Pacific time (1105 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, marking NASA's first interplanetary launch from the US west coast.
Source(s): AFP