Atlas 5 rocket launches, promulgation NASA’s drudge to Mars

An Atlas 5 rocket soared into space early on Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying NASA’s initial robotic lander designed for exploring a low interior of another world on a excursion to Mars.

The Mars InSight examine carried off from a executive California seashore during 4:05 a.m. PDT, treating early-rising residents opposite a far-reaching swath of a state to a radiant predawn philharmonic of a initial US interplanetary booster to be launched over a Pacific.