Last week a Cargo Dragon spacecraft made history by splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off the West Coast of Florida.

Happy New Year!

Earth’s newest ocean-observing satellite was launched about a month ago, and it just sent back its first science data, proving that it’s already hard at work. 

Hopefully, you were able to watch the arrival of four more astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) last week — for the first time ever there are now seven human beings in the orbiting science laboratory.

Since the two Voyager spacecraft transitioned into interstellar space it’s been fairly quiet around those two extreme long-distance travelers.

Decades of hard work came to a culmination last Tuesday when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) successfully tapped asteroid Bennu to collect a pristine sample of early solar system material.

You may have read some of the headlines lately about the discovery of life on Venus.

Hopefully, you had a chance to catch a little bit of the fantastic show the night sky put on last week: It was the annual meteor shower of the Perseids.

It seems we don’t have a lot to celebrate these days. The coronavirus pandemic is still raging, and in many places, people are demonstrating to make their voices heard.

The day is almost here when people will launch into space from American soil again!