2023 in review: ESA's JUICE mission to SpaceX's Starship launches, another landmark year for space

From ESA's JUICE mission and NASA's asteroid missions to SpaceX's attempts to launch the world's largest rocket, 2023 was another landmark for space.

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01:20 Scientists are interested in asteroids

01:35 because they're preserved building blocks from early times

01:41 in the solar system.

01:42 But even more so, the more we learn about asteroids,

01:45 the more humanity will be able to protect itself

01:49 in case we ever have one coming our way

01:51 and we need to shove it off course

01:53 or do some kind of something to save the planet.

01:56 So there's a lot of reasons why NASA

01:59 is so interested in asteroids.

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02:12 2, 1, we have the bus.

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02:20 --views of our super heavy booster.

02:23 And as you can see, the super heavy booster

02:26 has just experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

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