All eyes turn to Florida’s Space Coast on Monday night as Nasa and Blue Origin team up for a landmark launch, sending a twin-spacecraft mission to Mars while attempting the first-ever landing of Blue Origin’s colossal New Glenn rocket.

The mission, named Escapade, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, consists of two identical spacecraft designed to explore Mars’ magnetosphere and upper atmosphere.

NEW GLEN ESCAPADE MARS MISSION LAUNCH LIVE

Scientists hope the data will reveal how the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere over billions of years, offering new clues about its climate history and potential to have once supported life.

Rather than heading directly to Mars, Escapade will first travel to the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 2 (L2) — a gravitational sweet

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