{"id":202645,"date":"2024-12-28T13:08:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T19:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/from-commercial-moon-landers-to-asteroid-investigations-the-year-ahead"},"modified":"2024-12-28T13:08:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T19:08:58","slug":"from-commercial-moon-landers-to-asteroid-investigations-the-year-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/from-commercial-moon-landers-to-asteroid-investigations-the-year-ahead","title":{"rendered":"From commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, the year ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-commercial-moon-landers-to-asteroid-investigations-the-year-ahead2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA\u2019s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa. SpaceX\u2019s Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical milestone for future deep space missions. China made From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025s with the Chang\u2019e 6 mission, which successfully returned samples from the far side of the Moon. Meanwhile, the International Space Station continued to host international crews, including private missions like Axiom Mission 3.<\/p>\n<p>As an aerospace engineer, I\u2019m excited for 2025, when space agencies worldwide are gearing up for even more ambitious goals. Here\u2019s a look at the most exciting missions planned for the coming year, which will expand humanity\u2019s horizons even further, from the Moon and Mars to asteroids and beyond:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA\u2019s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa. SpaceX\u2019s Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical milestone for future deep space missions. China made From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025s with the Chang\u2019e [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202645","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}