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The James Webb Space Telescope launched successfully at 12:20 UT (7:20 a.m. EST) on December 25 from Kourou, French Guiana. Over the following weeks, NASA plans to provide coverage of the deployments of the sunshield, mirrors, etc., see the NASA Press Release. To follow the mission, see the "Where is Webb?" page.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) to the Didymos asteroid system launched on November 24 at 6:21 UT (1:21 a.m. EST, 10:21 p.m. Nov. 23 PST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base
The Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids launched successfully on 16 October at 09:34 UT (5:34 a.m. EDT). For more, see the NASA Press Release.
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- Venus "Ashen Light" first observed, by Giovanni Battista Riccioli.
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- Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon and returns pictures of the surface.
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