NASA ESCAPADE Mission to Mars Update: The Road Ahead | Rocket Lab FriendsofNASA.org: Our twin spacecraft for ‪the NASA‬ ESCAPADE Mission and ‪its partner, the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), have completed their engine burns and are now cruising near the Earth–Sun L2 Lagrange point. Twin spacecraft, Blue and Gold, will hang tight here until November 2026 when they will begin their cruise to Mars orbit to begin their science mission studying the Martian magnetos