Ingenuity, the small helicopter that’s been buzzing around the Red Planet for almost three years, took its final flight late last week.
In the end, the helicopter ended up performing a staggering 72 flights, collectively traveling 11 miles and climbing up to 79 feet at the highest altitude.
Most of these people have not been subjected to the rigorous psychological tests that Shuttle astronauts receive.
On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after lift-off, killing all seven crew members.
The disaster resulted in a nearly three-year moratorium on Space Shuttle missions and subsequent investigations identified myriad issues within NASA culture that indriectly or directly led to the disaster.
One of the longest-running hyperloop startups is reportedly shutting its doors.
Hyperloop One, once backed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, will cease operations on December 31 according to Bloomberg News.
And it comes after Hyperloop One raised and spent hundreds of millions of dollars since its founding in 2014.
It took on the name Virgin Hyperloop One after Branson invested in 2017.
DP World will wind up with Hyperloop One’s intellectual property, Bloomberg reports, while the rest of its hard assets — including a test track outside Las Vegas and other machinery — will be sold off.
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