{"id":178976,"date":"2023-12-24T00:37:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-has-a-slew-of-fascinating-space-missions-on-the-horizon"},"modified":"2023-12-24T00:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:37:55","slug":"nasa-has-a-slew-of-fascinating-space-missions-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-has-a-slew-of-fascinating-space-missions-on-the-horizon","title":{"rendered":"NASA Has a Slew of Fascinating Space Missions on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-has-a-slew-of-fascinating-space-missions-on-the-horizon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx mission <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/science\/watch-live-ancient-asteroid-sample-lands-on-earth-in-last-leg-of-nasa-osiris-rex-mission__;!!LsXw!R0aklfNlteeOGnDlBCzpjowdQS5H2NJYFo6Dupa1KiEIxNuqS72JiAiAXQm0Q_m4nFqWI5L0HN8slCYsF_qGukGbLDyHqLJBNopD%24\"\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/science\/watch-live-ancient-aste\u2026JBNopD%24\u2033<\/a> rel=\u201cnofollow\u201d&gt; returning a sample from an asteroid<\/a> and India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 mission <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/chandrayaan-3-moon-temperature-lunar-south-pole-first-time__;!!LsXw!R0aklfNlteeOGnDlBCzpjowdQS5H2NJYFo6Dupa1KiEIxNuqS72JiAiAXQm0Q_m4nFqWI5L0HN8slCYsF_qGukGbLDyHqNsYef5A%24\"\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/chandrayaan-3-moon-temperature-lunar-s\u2026sYef5A%24\u2033<\/a> rel=\u201cnofollow\u201d&gt; exploring the lunar south pole<\/a>, and 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year for space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Several new missions under NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/specials\/artemis\/__;!!LsXw!R0aklfNlteeOGnDlBCzpjowdQS5H2NJYFo6Dupa1KiEIxNuqS72JiAiAXQm0Q_m4nFqWI5L0HN8slCYsF_qGukGbLDyHqESEcWZi%24\"\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/specials\/artemis\/__;!!LsXw!R0aklfNlteeO\u2026SEcWZi%24\u2033<\/a> rel=\u201cnofollow\u201d&gt; Artemis plan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/commercial-lunar-payload-services\/__;!!LsXw!R0aklfNlteeOGnDlBCzpjowdQS5H2NJYFo6Dupa1KiEIxNuqS72JiAiAXQm0Q_m4nFqWI5L0HN8slCYsF_qGukGbLDyHqNV7gEoS%24\"\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/commercial-lunar-payload-services\/__;!!\u2026V7gEoS%24\u2033<\/a> rel=\u201cnofollow\u201d&gt; Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative<\/a> will target the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>The latter half of the year will feature several exciting launches, with the launch of the Martian Moons eXploration mission in September, Europa Clipper and Hera in October and Artemis II and VIPER to the Moon in November\u2014if everything goes as planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx mission https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/science\/watch-live-ancient-aste\u2026JBNopD%24\u2033 rel=\u201cnofollow\u201d&gt; returning a sample from an asteroid and India\u2019s Chandrayaan-3 mission https:\/\/www.space.com\/chandrayaan-3-moon-temperature-lunar-s\u2026sYef5A%24\u2033 rel=\u201cnofollow\u201d&gt; exploring the lunar south pole, and 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year for space exploration. Several new missions under NASA\u2019s https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/specials\/artemis\/__;!!LsXw!R0aklfNlteeO\u2026SEcWZi%24\u2033 rel=\u201cnofollow\u201d&gt; [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}