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How Much Money Did NASA Spend on the Mars InSight?

by The Frisky March 13, 2019
by The Frisky March 13, 2019

Did you hear about NASA`s holiday trips to the planet Mars? Well, you are going to be pleased to hear that it will probably be available in the near future. After the successful landing on the moon that occurred in 1969, the planet Mars became the next goal for the human race.

The InSight is not NASA`s first mission about the landing on Mars, but it is the first one of its kind, and this is not something that you can consider cheap. Let us inform you how much the NASA spent on the InSight mission.

How Much Did NASA Spent on the InSight Mission?

Source: Phys.org

As you may presume, exploring the planets of the solar system is not a cheap thing. NASA spent a significant amount of money to support the InSight mission. After you take a look at all the expenses, the list looks like this:

  • The probe and the mission itself: $650 million
  • Launching the Atlas 5 rocker: $163 million
  • Contribution from the German and French space agencies: $180 million
  • Money paid to the Air Force Base in CA for the hardware need for the mission: $993 million

According to the sources from the NASA itself, the landing was delayed because, in March 2016, an equipment leak happened. The cost of fixing this issue was around $150 million. So, the new schedule will have to wait for some time.

What Is the Purpose of the InSight Mission?

Source: cheatsheet.com

In the public, there was some debate about whether NASA and the United States should invest such a huge amount of money into the mission of landing on the planet Mars. As we already said, this is something that is expensive, but this is something that is important to do, for the future of mankind.

Before this mission started, there were several machines roaming the surface of the red planet, taking pictures and taking some soil samples for the examining.However, we can say that the InSight mission is something totally different from the previous missions. Its purpose is to collect data. For example:

  • Measuring the temperature on the planet.
  • Measuring and recording the frequency of the earthquakes and other happenings on the soil.
  • Measuring the heat beneath the soil of Mars.
  • Detecting the rotation through a radio transmitter that will use the Doppler effect for measuring.

All of those actions are put into the name of the mission. InSight is short for Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. All in all, we should be thankful for the short name that it was given to the mission.

Did We Have Some Successful Mars Landings?

Source: Space.com

We can say that the landing on Mars is not a new concept for NASA. The first successful mission on Mars occurred back in 1964. Later, the landings are rare, mostly, the missions consisted oftaking photographs and taking samples of the soil for further researching. As of today, NASA has seven successful Mars missions.

Source: cheatsheet.com

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