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So this has been a long, long journey in every sense for all the scientists here, shep. we were with them back in february when they flew the insight lander from colorado to vandenberg air force base in california where it was launched may 5 in the predawn skies. then six and a half months later they've been monitoring and followed from two brief case sized satellites and they were sending down the signals that confirmed this is indeed a successful landing of insight on the red planet, shep. >> shepard: none -- jonathan hunt from mission control. as this event was happening the president began...

>> sandra: with the nasa just months away from a new mission to mars, fox news is getting an exclusive an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at it spacecraft expected to shed new light on the red planet. jonathan hunt is a live from nasa's jet proposal and territory in pasadena, california, with this. >> when president trump told yesterday about sending "something beautiful to mars" this is what he meant. the insight lander, he wants to get american astronauts on the longer mars could before we do that, we need to know more about the planet. that is where the insight lander comes in. >> will mak...

How special this place is. this doesn't happen every day. >> yeah, it doesn't happen every day. being here in the room with what is an exact replica of the insight lander that is going to mars is an extraordinary thing. being surrounded by people whose i.q. is 100 points higher than mine is an interesting day. >> harris: the president called it a beautiful thing and we have seen it first hand. jonathan hunt, thanks very much. we're coming back. ♪ never drop to your knees, ♪ look into the sky for a momentary high, ♪ ♪ you never even tried till it's time to say goodbye, bye ♪ ♪ every...

2016. the $425 million insight lander will drill into the red planet's crust. the mission will explore how mars, earth and other rocky planets were formed. cosmonauts did some home improvement monday, performing a spacewalk to install shielding on their side of the or bbiorbi protect against space junk. the american side already has shields built in. angry piers morgan blasted todd akin from backing out of a scheduled interview on cnn for at the last minute. for not showing up, he said akin was what they called in england, quote, a gutless little twerp. akin has lost a lot of support as th...