NASA's InSight spacecraft has completed its first major course correction, setting it on its way to Mars. On May 22, the unmanned cruise stage with its robotic lander made a 40-second burn using four of its eight thrusters to not only alter the probe's trajectory, but to also protect the Red Planet from biocontamination by the mission's Centaur rocket booster.
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