Great Space Events in 2020

Much space endeavours and anniversay by 2020! Endeavours to fly unmanned and manned spaceships built by private companies, to the ISS should keep on that year, or NASA's large SLS rocket with the European ESA's Orion capsule should keep being worked out. Numerous missions should keep work into the solar system, like NASA's Curiosity and InSight at Mars, Juno at Jupiter or OSIRIS-REx working at asteroid Benu. Japan's Hayabusa2 on the other hand, should return a capsule by late 2020 of samples of asteroid Ryugu, and data download from the U.S. New Horizons flyby at KBO 2014 MU69 will come to a end. NASA is also set to launch its new Martian rover, Mars 2020 for a 5-year mission in search of life! 2020 will also mark the continuing anniversaries of the Apollo program with, that year, the one of the doomed Apollo 13 which had its service module exploding enroute to Moon, obliging astronauts to a perilous circumlunar journey! During a period spanning through December 2022 generally, NASA will mark the 50th anniversary of all the missions of the Apollo Program. 2020 will also see the 20th anniversary of NASA's Magellan mission at Venus as it's also the epoch to the 40th anniversaries of the Voyager 1 et 2 grand tour at gas giants

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