The Conversation: From New Commercial Moon Landers to Asteroid Investigations, Expect a Slate of Exciting Space Missions in 2025

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world.

NASA's Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter's moon Europa. SpaceX's Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical milestone for future deep space missions. China made headlines with the Chang'e 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.

Zhenbo Wang, an associate professor of mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, recently explained for The Conversation what space missions are planned for the coming year and how they will expand humanity's horizons even further. Read the full article on The Conversation.

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