NASA's InSight spacecraft touches down on Mars after 6-month journey

<p>With just a day to go, NASA's InSight spacecraft is aimed for a bull's-eye touchdown on Mars, zooming in like an arrow with no turning back.</p> — With just a day to go, NASA's InSight spacecraft is aimed for a bull's-eye touchdown on Mars, zooming in like an arrow with no turning back.

January 25, 2019 at 2:37 p.m. UTC

By Kelly Healey, Melonie Holt and MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer

[ InSight's journey of six months and 300 million miles came to a precarious grand finale Monday. ]

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