Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.
From monitoring Mercury to launching a new adventure to an icy moon of Jupiter, spacecraft and astronauts made great strides in 2024. Here are some of the highlights of this year in space.The moon has been a hot destination for space agencies and private companies in recent years, and 2024 was no exception.made a successful but lopsided precision landing on a crater’s rim, marking the country’s first soft landing on the moon.
Another private company had a rougher time of it. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore to the space station in early June for an eight-day mission, but problems with the spacecraft’s thrusters delayed the astronauts’ return. Starlinerin September without its crew. Williams and Wilmore will remain on the space station until February, when a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will bring them home.Earth lost a planetary protector this year.
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