In the early 2000s, Prototype & Short-Run Services, Inc. was privileged to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. Our technical innovation and extreme precision fabrication capabilities were called upon by Boeing to provide parts and components for nothing less than NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover. On July 27, 2014, after an almost unbelievable ten years traversing the surface of Mars, Opportunity broke the off-Earth driving distance record that had been established by Russia’s Lunokhod 2 Moon rover in 1973.
Originally sent to the Red Planet in January 2004 on a four-month exploratory mission, Opportunity continues to astound engineers and scientists, sending back valuable information with no end to its exploration in sight.
We at Prototype & Short-Run Services, Inc. are honored to be a part of the Opportunity team and what is perhaps mankind’s ultimate engineering challenge: the exploration of space.