Hello and welcome to NASA headquarters. My name is Dwane Brown with the Office of Communications, your host for today's program. We're doing the next hour. We'll take you on NASA's upcoming epic trek back to Mars. On November 26, NASA's Mars Insight Lander will touch down on the Red Planet, becoming the first-ever mission to study the heart of Mars. Mars has a heart, you ask? Well, stay with us to get a better understanding of that and much more. Today's show will feature talks from mission engineers and scientists. They'll also take your questions here from our audience in Washington, our phone lines across the nation, and of course, social media using the hashtag #askNASA. I have my red planet red tie on. Are you ready? Let's go to Mars! Music and applause. First up to tell you about the spacecraft and how we will land on the Martian surface, it's Tom Hoffman, Insight project manager from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Tom, thank you. Thank you, Dwayne. I can't express to you the excitement that I have to stand up here in front of you today, less than a month to landing. I've been working on this project for more than seven years, and to get to this point, we're on the precipice of landing on Mars, gonna get back some groundbreaking science. It's absolutely a tremendous feeling to me. Many of the team members that you're going to hear about today have been working on this even longer than I have, so I know they're equally, if not more excited than I am to tell you about this great mission. So first off, our trip to Mars started on May 5th of this year from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was the very first interplanetary launch from Vandenberg Air...
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