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Six Exciting Space Missions To Take Off This Year!

In 2020, space exploration achieved many notable firsts, including returning samples of an asteroid to Earth and commercial human spaceflight. This year, there will be several exciting missions exploring the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Artemis Program Artemis I is the first flight from NASA’s Artemis program to return humans to...

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BBC News: The United Arab Emirates is sending a spacecraft, Hope, to Mars. The mission aims to find out more about how the Red Planet became the barren, dusty place it's known to be today, by studying its weather and climate. The probe has taken six years to build. Sarah Al-Amiri, the scientist in charge of the mission, spoke to BBC Science Correspondent Rebecca Morelle.