Although NASA isn’t planning on sending astronauts to Mars until the 2030s, anyone with a virtual reality headset will be able to walk on the Red Planet next year.
The Mars 2030 Experience, a collaboration across NASA, Fusion, and MIT’s Space Systems Laboratory, will debut in March 2016 at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
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