The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker

The Mars InSight probe lifted off from the central California coast at 4:05 am PDT, treating early-rising residents across a wide swath of the state to the luminous pre-dawn spectacle of the first US