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InSight Launch

Rocket launching in fog.
Source: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Published: May 6, 2018

The NASA InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, Saturday, May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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