Sorry folks been on leave so a little behind the 8-ball on this one.

So first up, New Horizons (the revolutionary probe which visited Pluto for the first time in high detail a few years ago) has made a flyby of the most distant object we've been able to photograph to date, a Kuiper Belt Object by the name of Ultima Thule. And in the Christmas/Winter spirit, it looks like a rusty snowman

Ultima Thule the Snowman

In other space news, things are finally heating up this year with Commercial Crew operations. A Falcon 9 with the Dragon Crew capsule variant has rolled out to Pad 39A for tests ahead of its inaugural uncrewed test flight:

Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon Rollout

Should be an exciting year for Commercial Crew. We finally get to see SpaceX bear fruit to a long awaited dream of providing American access to ISS and beyond again. Boeing should follow suit shortly with the capsule they've dubbed the StarLiner.