The Artemis II crew started 2026 on the right foot: working with the flight control team to prepare for various scenarios during their upcoming mission around the Moon. | NASA Artemis

On January 6, 1968, NASA launched the seventh and final Surveyor spacecraft on a mission to explore the moon. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/5osI5c Like its six predecessors, Surveyor 7 was a robotic spacecraft sent to demonstrate the feasibility of doing soft landings on the moon. Two of these missions didn't succeed with their soft landings and accidentally crash landed, but Surveyor 7 arrived in one piece, successfully wrapping up the Surveyor program. It touched down

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/5osI5c Eris is just slightly smaller than Pluto, and it orbits the sun about three times farther than Pluto. NASA first thought that Eris was bigger than Pluto, and they originally described Eris as the 10th planet in the solar system. But the International Astronomical Union, or IAU, wasn't too thrilled about adding Ceres to the li