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Going to space is just the beginning. It’s what you do when you get there that matters. Because space is a place to do big, important, epic things that connect people around the world, advance the frontiers of science, and help militaries protect what matters most. Lockheed Martin builds the technology that gets things done in space. Exploring the solar system. Predicting the weather. Delivering precise GPS. Detecting and defeating missile launches. At Lockheed Martin, we don’t just think big thoughts. We get things done.

InSIght Launches to Mars

Image: NASA
Image: NASA

Lockheed Martin Space continues its Mars heritage when the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft launched at 4:05 a.m. PT, May 5, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket. InSight has officially begun its six-month long journey to the Red Planet and is scheduled to arrive Nov. 26, 2018.

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Other companies talk about going to space, we’re already there.

Eleven Mars-bound orbiters and landers. The first ever comet sample return. The first 3D printed parts in deep space. Lockheed Martin has built more interplanetary spacecraft than any other U.S. company. And we’re just getting started. Check out the technology we’ve built for NASA that has pushed the boundaries of exploration and changed our understanding of the solar system.
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Josh Ehrlich, a systems engineer working on the Orion deep space exploration vehicle out of Lockheed Martin’s Denver facility, traded in tech for a trowel as the resident botanist of the fifth Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) study.

Getting humans to Mars via Orion by the 2030s is the reality at hand, and given the 6-9 month journey each way just to get there, HI-SEAS seeks to study the psychological effects of close-quarters space travel on humans.

Josh is the second Lockheed Martin employee to be selected for one of the five HI-SEAS crews. He was inside the habitat for almost eight months, and his last day inside was Sept. 17.

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