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Great Space Events in 2015

A flurry of important milestones in space exploration is coming with 2015. The DAWN mission, after the minor planet Vesta, will be reaching Ceres by late March or the beginning of April 2015. ESA's Rosetta mission will keep journeying with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on its journey to the Sun as the closest will occur Aug. 13, 2015. And maybe above all 2015 is the year when a planetary mission will reach the faraway Pluto for the first time ever. As observations will begin since February 2015, the planet is to be reached in July! In terms of the anniversaries of the U.S. space program of the 1960's, 2015 is the one, with 2016 alike, of the Gemini program flights