2025 to Mark a Milestone Year for Space Exploration
NASA, SpaceX, and international agencies prepare for groundbreaking missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
- NASA's Artemis II, scheduled for September 2025, will be the first crewed mission of the Artemis program, testing systems for future lunar exploration.
- The Lunar Trailblazer mission will map water on the Moon's surface, while Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 will deliver scientific payloads to advance lunar research.
- China's Tianwen-2 mission aims to collect asteroid samples and study a comet, contributing to our understanding of the solar system's origins.
- The SPHEREx mission will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies and stars to explore the universe's origins and the distribution of life-forming molecules.
- Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket will debut with NASA's EscaPADE mission to study Mars' magnetosphere, highlighting advancements in commercial spaceflight.