Every year, toward the end of January, NASA sets aside a day of remembrance to look back at the three missions that were lost with astronauts aboard: Apollo 1 on Jan 27, 1967 Challenger STS 51L on Jan 28, 1986 Columbia STS 107 on Feb 1, 2003 Apollo 1 Crew (l-r): Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, Roger B. Chaffee. Credit: NASA I wasn’t born yet when Apollo 1 was lost during a launch test, killing Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. I was raised knowing these men were heroes who lost their lives in a terrible tragedy that led to changes in how space capsules are engineered and how...

Credit: NASA Back in October 2021, a mission called Lucy lifted off on a multi-year journey to visit Jupiter’s two collections of Trojan Asteroids. Today, it is making its way through the asteroid belt before circling back to use the Earth to get a gravitational...