In tribute to the International Day of Human Space Flight, we created this visualization with some milestones of humanity exploring outer space and the distance traveled from planet Earth
5,200 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall on Earth each year
DARPA has awarded contracts for the first phase of the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program. The goal of the DRACO program is to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system above low Earth orbit in 2025. [General Atomics, Blue Origin, and Lockheed Martin]