2023 is going to be a great year for fans of huge rockets, with ULA's Vulcan Centaur, Blue Origin's New Glenn and SpaceX's towering Starship - the largest rocket ever - all set to blast off
NASA and SpaceX are studying whether it would be possible to use a Dragon spacecraft to boost the Hubble Space Telescope’s orbit, extending its lifetime by up to 20 yearsThe latest prototype of Starship, the spacecraft that SpaceX plans to use to bring astronauts to the moon, made its highest test flight ever on 9 December –
and then explodedBlue Origin is one of a number of firms hoping to build a commercial space station, but it isn't clear any will be ready before the International Space Station reaches the end of its lifeThe actor William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek, will fly aboard a Blue Origin rocket on 12 October