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Preparations are underway in United Launch Alliance's receiving and inspection facility to move the first stage booster of the Atlas V 401 rocket for NASA's InSight mission to Space Launch Complex 3E on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The mission is scheduled to launch in March 2016 and land on Mars in September 2016. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will study processes that formed and shaped Mars