"2023: A Year of Breakthroughs and Spectacles in Space Exploration"

The top spaceflight stories of 2023 included SpaceX's Starship test flights, major science missions like ESA's JUICE and NASA's Psyche probe, the return of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample, India's successful moon landing with Chandrayaan-3, Russia's failed Luna-25 moon mission, Frank Rubio's record-breaking US spaceflight duration, a mysterious coolant leak on a Russian spacecraft, the classified Silent Barker military launch, Virgin Galactic's commencement of commercial spaceflights, and SpaceX surpassing its own launch record with over 90 orbital launches.