Year-Ender 2023: A Look at the Top 11 Space Moments of 2023
blew up the rocket. The launch was a significant milestone as it marked the first comprehensive flight test of a Starship and Super Heavy integrated launch system, which has a towering height of 395 feet (120 meters). An earlier attempt at the launch on April 17 was cancelled due to a fueling issue.
Starship — the largest and most powerful rocket ever developed — is key to Musk’s ambitions of carrying payloads and people to distant destinations like the moon and Mars. After seven years of long wait, the US space agency NASA's first asteroid sample landed on Earth, in the desert in the western state of Utah after a 3.86-billion-mile (6.21-billion-kilometer) journey. Researchers "found black dust and debris on the avionics deck of the Osiris-Rex science canister when the initial lid was removed today," the US Space Agency said.
Osiris-Rex launched in 2016, landing on the asteroid Bennu and collected roughly nine ounces (250 grams) of dust from its rocky surface. According to NASA, the debris of the asteroid should "help us better understand the types of asteroids that could threaten Earth." US space agency NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on April 3 announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon as part of the Artemis II mission. Expected to launch sometime next year, Artemis II would be the first crewed voyage around the moon in more than 50 years.
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