Virtual Reality Comes to Spaceflight: Rocket Tours and Walks on Mars

This week, the 32nd Space Symposium took place in Colorado, but it might as well have been at Cape Canaveral. A virtual-reality app created by United Launch Alliance (ULA) dropped me onto a launchpad next to a Delta IV rocket, and watching it take off gave me nearly the same thrill as seeing a launch in person. Humans should never actually get as close to a rocket launch as I got to the Delta IV rocket that took off in the VR app.