We’ve sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4, 1957. As access to space has increased, thanks largely to the commercial space industry, so too have the types of payloads we are sending. Consider the Nyx capsule created by German aerospace startup The Exploration Company, which launched on June 23 from the Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a Falcon-9 rocket as part of a rideshare mission (Transporter-14).
A spacecraft carrying human remains and cannabis crashes into the ocean
