Next Drop, Mars: Super Bowl Fans Lift Off to Space on NASA 'Future Flight' Ride

Robert Z. Pearlman <a href="http://www.collectspace.com">collectSPACE.com Editor</a>

Updated February 2, 2017 at 11:27 a.m.

Next Drop, Mars: Super Bowl Fans Lift Off to Space on NASA 'Future Flight' Ride

As football fans make their way to Houston for the Super Bowl on Sunday (Feb. 5), NASA is offering a quick way to reach the 50 yard line at the Big Game — by "dropping in" from Mars. The space agency partnered with the Houston Super Bowl Host Committee to present Future Flight, a VR-enhanced amusement park drop tower ride that launches guests on a journey to the Red Planet. "You are strapped into the Orion spacecraft, atop NASA's Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket ever built, accelerating to 24,000 mph on a journey that will take you farther than anyone has ever dared from our home world," says the narrator.

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