NASA is launching a mission to study a nearby asteroid worth more than 10,000 quadrillion dollars, which is said to contain so much precious metal that everyone on Earth would be billionaires if its value were shared.
STS-28R was NASA's 30th Space Shuttle mission, the fourth shuttle mission dedicated to the purposes of the United States Department of Defense, and the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
NASA chose SpaceX to go to Europe. With a frozen ocean more than twice the size of all oceans on Earth, the moon of Jupiter has all it takes to host life.