Tense, public squabbles between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA have stirred the space industry, but behind the scenes, space science has continued business as (almost) normal.

NASA and SpaceX are preparing to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday night. The new astronauts will relieve the Crew-9 astronauts, who will head back to Earth a few days later after being stuck on the ISS for nine months.

NASA's SPHEREx observatory is now in space for a two year year mission to create a 3D map of the entire celestial sky. The telescope left the ground on top of a Falcon 9 rocket from a launch pad in California,