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Cosmologists, astronomers and space engineers are that 2021 will a great year for space exploration. An increasing number of countries and commercial companies are in technology to into the heavens. Entrepreneurs like SpaceX's Elon Musk and Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson are their sights on space tourism and astronauts to Mars. What once seemed like science fiction is quickly space fact. Such are the advances in technology, we might no longer surprised at news of asteroids mined, Mars being , or of new forms of holidays, such as getaway weekend breaks to the Moon.

The year will start with an exciting project that will scientists better understand the universe. NASA will its Q-PACE probe on January the 15th. This will the collision of small particles in space to an insight into how planets originally . A month later, NASA's Perseverance rover will on Mars. This mission will test for signs of possible past microbial life. NASA said: "Returning samples of Mars to Earth has a goal of planetary scientists since the early days of the space age." In October, the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Telescope, will into space. Its mission is to the first galaxies that in the early universe.