1. ExoMars Reaches the Martian Surface (2021)
During the same launch window as Mars 2020, this collaboration between the ESA and Roscosmos aims to discover if life ever existed on the red planet. This plan has already been set in motion—in 2016, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was launched in order to determine if there's methane or other gases present on Mars and 2017's ExoMars Lander was sent as a vanguard for the eventual rover, but it crashed into the red planet's surface.
2. Russia's space agencies Being Offering Space Tours (2021)
Russian agency Roscosmos has partnered with Space Adventures to create a new tourist destination in space, and the Russian space agency also has plans to turn a decommissioned International Space Station into a luxury hotel.
3. India Enters the Realm of Crewed Spaceflight (2021-2022)
During the same launch window as Mars 2020, this collaboration between the ESA and Roscosmos aims to discover if life ever existed on the red planet. This plan has already been set in motion—in 2016, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was launched in order to determine if there's methane or other gases present on Mars and 2017's ExoMars Lander was sent as a vanguard for the eventual rover, but it crashed into the red planet's surface.
2. Russia's space agencies Being Offering Space Tours (2021)
Russian agency Roscosmos has partnered with Space Adventures to create a new tourist destination in space, and the Russian space agency also has plans to turn a decommissioned International Space Station into a luxury hotel.
3. India Enters the Realm of Crewed Spaceflight (2021-2022)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to send the first group of Indian astronauts into space between 2021 and 2022 for a duration of approximately a week.
The astronauts (one of which will be a female military pilot) are expected to be chosen for Gaganyaan (the moniker given to the spacecraft) sometime this year.
4. SpaceX Launches a Mission to Mars (2022)
Elon Musk's company, SpaceX, plans to launch an unpiloted mission in 2022 to "confirm water sources, identify hazards, and put in place initial power, mining, and life support infrastructure."
In 2024, Musk wants SpaceX to send a crewed spacecraft to Mars with the primary objectives of "building a propellant depot and preparing for future crew flights," though SpaceX is quick to label these goals "aspirational."
5. China Launches a Third Space Station (2022)
Earlier this year, China reached a historic milestone by landing the Change 4 spacecraft on the far side of the moon—previously unchartered territory. This is an especially exciting outcome because the Change 4 landed in the Moon's oldest and deepest crater which may be able to shed new light on the Moon's origins.
The country of more than 1 billion isn't stopping there. "China now plans to begin fully operating its third space station by 2022, to put astronauts in a lunar base by later in that decade, and to send probes to Mars, including ones that could return samples of the Martian surface back to Earth."
6.NASA's Artemis Mission To The Moon (2024)
NASA announced that they plan to send the first woman and the next man back to the Moon by 2024.
The Artemis mission takes astronauts to the Lunar South Pole to learn more about the availability of resources such as water and test vital technology that will prove useful during future missions to Mars. Another goal will be to, well, see how the human body endures long term space missions. They'll fly in the Orion spacecraft, which will be powered by the Agency's SLS rockets.
In essence, it's practice for Mars.
7. The Extremely Large Telescope Fires Up (2025)
Some of the most interesting space projects are still happening right here on Earth. When completed at its location in Chile, the ETL will be the largest telescope in the world, able to gather 13 times more light than today's most powerful space-gazing telescopes.
8. The U.S. Habitat Arrives at the Lunar Gateway (2025)
NASA's Gateway, a cis-lunar orbital space station in conjunction with other international partners, will be an ongoing project throughout the 202os. But once the U.S. habitat is delivered to the space station in 2025, the real science begins.
Current designs allow for four astronauts on board the space station at the same time, and a litany of proposed lunar landers will make the Gateway a hive of space-based activity—and a possible stepping stone to Mars.
9.NASA's Dragonfly Mission to Titan (2026)
This highly anticipated mission to Saturn's icy moon, Titan. The rotorcraft is scheduled to launch in 2026 and is expected to arrive at Titan in 2034 when it will begin to study the moon's wide variety of environments.
Because Titan's atmosphere is so dense--four times that of Earth--Dragonfly will be able to carry its entire science payload to different locations around the ocean world for the 2.7-year mission. Titan has been likened to an early Earth analogue, so scientists hope the mission will inform our understanding of how life evolved here on our home planet.
10.ESA's JUICE Explorer Arrives at Jupiter (2029)
This probe from the European space agency will not explore one but three moons of Jupiter—Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa—as well as the Gas Giant itself. Once it makes its seven-year journey after launch in 2022, the probe will enter the Jupiter system, but it will take another four years before it reaches orbit around Ganymede in 2033.
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