Review of NASA’s Progress and Achievements in 2023

In 2023, NASA pushed the boundaries of exploration, explored the unknown in air and space, continued to make new scientific discoveries in the fields of Moon to Mars, climate and Earth sciences, manned spaceflight, solar system and beyond, space technology innovation, and aerospace technology, and inspired the world through discovery. And these scientific discoveries are widely publicized to draw people’s attention to space exploration. For example, NASA shared results of its first Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review as it builds a blueprint for human exploration throughout the solar system for the benefit of humanity. The “Artemis” plan for manned lunar exploration series of missions and the development of various systems continue to progress. NASA’s Webb telescope pulled back the curtain on some of the most distant galaxies, stars, and black holes ever observed. A number of asteroid exploration missions have made significant progress. Space-based and airborne platforms have cooperated to better understand the changing planet. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed back a laser encoded with test data from nearly 10 million miles away. NASA also worked with Boeing on the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project to build and test the X-66A. NASA is also actively inspiring and guiding the next generation of interest and participation in space exploration.