The Opportunity rover may have no more chances. On June 8th, NASA confirmed that Opportunity would be entering sleep mode as a massive dust storm overtook part of Mars. Bill Nelson, chief of the Opportunity mission’s engineering team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Mashable that they aren’t hearing from the bot and that “it’s […]
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The concept of commercial space travel is, in many ways, still science fiction. It is expensive and dangerous and requires technology that’s still being developed. However, a few names do pop up when discussing the topic. One is Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, but there is competition- Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic, the space travel division of […]
For California-based company SpaceX, 2017 was a banner year. The company, founded in 2002, created and launched their own rockets and spacecraft, with “the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets,” according to their website. A grand total of 18 missions were held in 2017, the last of which (the Falcon 9 […]