World s space achievements a bright spot in otherwise stressful 2020
By Marcia Dunn article
Crew-1 mission astronauts walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building en route to launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 15, 2020. (Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts blasted into orbit from the U.S. for the first time in nearly a decade, three countries sent spacecraft hurtling toward Mars, and robotic explorers grabbed rocks from the moon and gravel from an asteroid for return to Earth.
Space provided moments of hope and glory in an otherwise difficult, stressful year.
FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2020, file photo, SpaceX s prototype starship takes off during a test flight from their Boca Chica, Texas, facility. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP, File)
FILE - In this photo this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, released by Xinhua News Agency, a display screen in Beijing shows the landed Chang e-5 spacecraft and a moon surface picture, below, taken by camera aboard Chang e-5 spacecraft during its landing process. (Jin Liwang/Xinhua via AP, File)
FILE - In this May 30, 2020, file photo, a SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Astronauts blasted into orbit from the U.S. for the first time in nearly a decade, three countries sent spacecraft hurtling toward Mars, and robotic explorers grabbed rocks from the moon and gravel from an asteroid for return to Earth.
Space provided moments of hope and glory in an otherwise difficult, stressful year.
It promises to do the same in 2021, with February’s landings at Mars and next fall’s planned launch of the Hubble Space Telescope’s successor the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope.
Boeing hopes to catch up with SpaceX in the astronaut-launching department, while space tourism may finally get off the ground.
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Astronauts blasted into orbit from the U.S. for the first time in nearly a decade, three countries sent spacecraft hurtling toward Mars, and robotic explorers grabbed rocks from the moon and gravel from an asteroid for return to Earth.
Space provided moments of hope and glory in an otherwise difficult, stressful year.
It promises to do the same in 2021, with February’s landings on Mars and next fall’s planned launch of the Hubble Space Telescope’s successor the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope.
Boeing hopes to catch up with SpaceX in the astronaut-launching department, and space tourism may finally get off the ground.
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