2021 was the year we fully understood the importance of vaccination against COVID-19 globally (although some still refuse to confirm its importance).
Also, fortunately, space was in the news many times in 2021: the landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars, the launch of the DART mission to modify the orbit of an asteroid, the discovery of almost 200 new planets beyond the solar system. solar, the launch of the James Webb telescope after many years of delay, the flight of Inspiration 4 as part of the Space X space plans, the 11-minute flight outside the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere by William Shatner, also known as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise (Star Trek), in October 2021.
New Shepard’s first passenger flight in July 2021 with Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson’s who became the first billionaire to make a space flight by blasting off on Virgin Galactic’s Unity rocket nine days earlier. It is clear that space tourism is the natural next step in space exploration, and there is nothing wrong with private enterprise taking center stage. That is why these flights have been so significant. Also this year we witnessed the flight of Ingenuity, the small helicopter carried by Perseverance to Mars, the first flight on another planet.
At MuyInteresante, we have compiled the stories that have impacted our readers the most in a year that has been more than captivating in the field of science and that will mark the steps of this coming 2022, in which many more scientific milestones and Records are going to take place, such as the partial solar eclipse that is scheduled for April 30 next year.
