InSight Prelaunch Briefing

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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) on May 5 from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The agency hosted a prelaunch briefing on May 3 at VAFB. Presenters included: Jim Green, NASA chief scientist Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at JPL Stu Spath, InSight program manager at Lockheed Martin Space, Denver Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Annick Sylvestre-Baron, deputy project manager for InSight seismometer investigation at France's space agency, the Centre National d'Études Spatiales, Paris Philippe Lognonné - InSight seismometer investigation lead at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France Tilman Spohn, investigation lead at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3), an instrument on InSight, Berlin Andrew Klesh, MarCO chief engineer at JPL Anne Marinan, MarCO systems engineer at JPL Tim Dunn, launch director with NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center, Florida Scott Messer, ULA program manager for NASA launches, Centennial, Colorado Col. Michael Hough, commander of the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Central California 1st Lt. Kristina Williams, weather officer for the 30th Space Wing For more about the mission, visit https://m

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