2020 will be a groundbreaking year in space. Here are the biggest rocket missions, meteor showers, eclipses, and more to put on your calendar.Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Dave Mosher and Dana Varinsky Dec 28, 2019, 2:47 PM
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley (left) and Bob Behnken (right), who are scheduled to be the first people that SpaceX launches into orbit. SpaceXJanuary 3-4, then every two weeks afterward: SpaceX launches 60 Starlink internet satellites at a time
January 11: SpaceX tests a rocket escape system for its new Crew Dragon spaceship
January 29: NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe flies past the sun for a fourth time (it will do this three more times in 2020)
January 30, then twice more later in the year: OneWeb launches its first internet satellites
February 5: The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA launch the Solar Orbiter to investigate the sun's poles — areas the Parker probe can't reach
February 17: Juno flies over Jupiter again (and will do so six more times in 2020)
Early 2020: SpaceX launches its first people into orbit — and resurrects the US' human spaceflight capabilities
April: The crew of Expedition 63 launches to the International Space Station
April 13: BepiColombo passes close to Earth
June 21: Annular solar eclipse
July: The United Arab Emirates launches a Mars orbiter
July 17: NASA's Mars 2020 rover launches
Sometime between July 26 and August 13: The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover launches
July or August: China launches its own Mars rover and orbiter
Mid-2020: Boeing launches its first NASA astronauts aboard a Starliner spaceship
August: OSIRIS-REx collects a sample of dust from asteroid Bennu
October 16: BepiColombo flies past Venus
December 14: Total solar eclipse
Late 2020: China intends to launch a mission to the moon that could return a sample to Earth
Late 2020: Hayabusa2 returns to Earth with rock samples from the asteroid Ryugu
Sometime in 2020: Artemis 1 launches the BioSentinel CubeSat carrying yeast cells — NASA's first attempt to send a living thing beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo moon missions
Maybe in 2020: SpaceX could launch its first Starship into orbit
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