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2021 in space: This year will bring Mars landings, eclipses, and even more commercial astronaut launches. Here’s what to watch for. – Yahoo News
In 2021, we’ll see nine meteor showers. Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA expects to land the first helicopter on Mars.
Human spaceflight changed forever in May, when SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley toward the International Space Station.
It was the first time a company, rather than a government agency, had launched people into space.
“This is the next era in human spaceflight, where NASA gets to be the customer,” Jim Bridenstine, NASA’s administrator, said in August, before the astronauts’ splash landing in the Gulf of Mexico..
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