"2024: The Pivotal Year for Space Missions Shaping Humanity's Future"
The year 2024 is poised to be a landmark year for space exploration with significant missions like NASA's Artemis 2, which will conduct a lunar flyby as a precursor to a moon landing in 2025. NASA will also deploy robotic landers to the moon's south pole for scientific research, while China's Chang'e 6 mission will collect samples from the far side of the moon. Japan's MMX mission will target Phobos, a moon of Mars, and NASA's Europa Clipper will investigate Jupiter's moon Europa. ESA's Hera mission will study the Didymos asteroid system for planetary defense, and commercial space flights will advance with the launch of Sierra Space's Dream Chaser space plane and the New Glenn reusable launch vehicle.