NASA's Pumped About 2023: Here's Why - CNET

It's going to beryllium pugnacious for NASA to apical 2022, a twelvemonth marked by the archetypal singular James Webb Space Telescope images, the palmy completion of the Artemis I satellite mission and smacking an asteroid. So what's next? A pumped-up NASA video released connected Sunday previews each the abstraction enactment to travel successful 2023.

The video features commentary from NASA head Bill Nelson, who kicks it disconnected saying, "We're ne'er going to halt exploring the chartless successful aerial and space."

NASA has a engaged slate of activities for the coming year. NASA volition denote the enactment of astronauts for the Artemis II mission, the archetypal crewed motorboat of its caller satellite exploration era. Expect a batch of fanfare astir the uncover of prototype spacesuits for aboriginal Artemis missions.

This should beryllium the twelvemonth erstwhile Boeing yet launches astronauts to the International Space Station connected its Starliner spacecraft as it looks to drawback up to SpaceX and its palmy tally of Crew Dragon journeys.

Fans of abstraction rocks tin look guardant to the transportation of material from asteroid Bennu arsenic portion of the Osiris-Rex mission. NASA besides hopes to yet motorboat the delayed Psyche mission to sojourn a metal-rich asteroid.

Perhaps little glamorous but conscionable arsenic important are a slate of climate-related projects including the motorboat of the TEMPO pollution-monitoring outer and the kickoff of NASA's Earth Information Center task for sharing weather, land, h2o and clime data.

It's not conscionable abstraction that's going to support NASA busy. The bureau is moving connected the innovative X-59 supersonic aircraft and X-57 all-electric craft arsenic ways to amended aerial travel.

Expect caller imagery and discoveries from Webb arsenic an ongoing taxable passim the year. Thanks to NASA's engaged schedule, determination volition beryllium nary shortage of reasons to look to the stars successful 2023.