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Join this comprehensive annual webinar reviewing the major space achievements and milestones of 2025, presented by veteran space analyst Larry Boyle from the Chicago Society for Space Studies. Explore the year's most significant developments across human spaceflight, lunar exploration, planetary missions, and launch technology that shaped humanity's journey beyond Earth. Discover how 2025 marked 25 continuous years of human presence aboard the International Space Station, with diverse international crews including Axiom Mission 4 featuring astronauts from the U.S., India, Poland, and Hungary, while Chinese taikonauts conducted ambitious spacewalks aboard Tiangong. Learn about lunar exploration progress through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, including Firefly's successful Blue Ghost M1 mission to Mare Crisium, alongside the challenges faced by other missions like IM-2 and Hakuto-R Mission 2. Examine groundbreaking solar system discoveries from NASA's Lucy asteroid mission, China's ambitious Tianwen-2 asteroid-sample and comet-rendezvous mission, and the ESCAPADE probes' journey to study Mars' interaction with solar wind. Analyze the unprecedented launch activity that reached over 280 successful missions worldwide, featuring Blue Origin's New Glenn achieving booster landing success, ULA's Vulcan Centaur, JAXA's H3, and China's new Long March 8A and Zhuque-3 rockets, culminating in the Eastern Range's record-setting 100th launch. Gain insights from Larry Boyle's decades of expertise in space program analysis, drawing from his experience presenting annual space reviews since 1979 and his deep knowledge of international space developments.
