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A lunar return, a Jupiter moon, the most powerful rocket ever built and the James Webb Space Telescope – space missions to watch in the coming months

  • Written by Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
image2022 is set to be humanity's busiest year in space.CSA Images via Getty Images

Space travel is all about momentum.

Rockets turn their fuel into momentum that carries people, satellites and science itself forward into space. 2021 was a year full of records for space programs around the world, and that momentum is carrying forward into 2022.

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