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Science history: James Webb Space Telescope launches — and promptly cracks our view of the universe — Dec. 25, 2021

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.
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Every Person Launched Into Space by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin

(L to R) Laura Shepard Churchley, Michael Strahan, Dylan Taylor, Cameron Bess, Lane Bess and Evan Dick stand on the landing pad after they flew into space on Dec. 11, 2021 near Van Horn, Texas. Getty ...