Here are some of the major launches to look forward to in 2023. This year’s historic flights include missions to Jupiter and the asteroid belt, robotic moon landings, and the maiden flight of a new spacecraft to take astronauts to and from the aging International Space Station (ISS). This year will continue that trend, as several scientific and commercial craft zoom off our world to orbit and beyond. The past few years have been a space launch boom: Late 2021 saw the long-awaited arrival of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and in 2022 NASA finally launched its massive new Space Launch System Moon rocket. 2023 may be the year we see Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon in full swing on NASA missions.
