From ESA's JUICE mission and NASA's asteroid missions to SpaceX's attempts to launch the world's largest rocket, 2023 was another landmark for space.
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01:20 Scientists are interested in asteroids
01:35 because they're preserved building blocks from early times
01:41 in the solar system.
01:42 But even more so, the more we learn about asteroids,
01:45 the more humanity will be able to protect itself
01:49 in case we ever have one coming our way
01:51 and we need to shove it off course
01:53 or do some kind of something to save the planet.
01:56 So there's a lot of reasons why NASA
01:59 is so interested in asteroids.
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02:12 2, 1, we have the bus.
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02:20 --views of our super heavy booster.
02:23 And as you can see, the super heavy booster
02:26 has just experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
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