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  1. Nasa rover launches on mission to find Martian life

     The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built - a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers - blasted off for the red planet Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.

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    Nasa rover launches on mission to find Martian life
  2. Weather postpones SpaceX's first astronaut launch from Florida

     SpaceX, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s private rocket company, was forced by foul weather to scrub a planned launch on Wednesday of two Americans into orbit from Florida, a mission that would be the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years.

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    Weather postpones SpaceX's first astronaut launch from Florida
  3. NASA’s Insight is making its final descent towards Mars

    Insight is the first mission to study the deep interior of Mars.
    It launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on May 5 of this year.
    Insight will study Mars in hopes of learning how celestial bodies with rocky surfaces, including Earth, formed.

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    Insight is the first mission to study the deep interior of Mars.