2020 Was a Great Year for Things Trying to Leave this Planet.
6 min readDec 21, 2020
While things were pretty rough here on Earth in 2020, it was an amazing year for space exploration. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights and remind ourselves of some of the truly awesome things humans are capable of:
In July we saw a veritable fleet of spacecraft set off of Mars: NASA’s Perseverance rover, China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter+rover+lander combo…