Private companies and government agencies are currently part of a new shift in space interest, from space tourism to mining asteroids and the moon for resources, the new space race has begun.

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Overwhelmingly Large Telescope Goes Into Operation

The First Space Tourism Flight

James Webb Space Telescope Is Launched

ESA and NASA Will Try to Divert an Asteroid Out of Its Orbit

Construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Begins

SpaceX Starlink Reaches 12,000 Satellite Capacity

The Mars Sample Return Mission

First Manned Mission to Mars

Giant Magellan Telescope Goes Into Operation

Skylon Spacecraft Goes Into Operation

Manned Missions to the Moon Will Take Place

Venera-d Space Probe Reaches Venus

Darpa's Membrane Optical Imager for Realtime Exploitation Goes Into Operation

The First Space Tourism Flights Are Being Offered to Public

A Rare Tetrad Eclipse to Appear

NASA Launches Human Mission to Mars

Total Solar Eclipse in The United States

Completion of a Space Elevator

Commercial Mining of the Moon's Elements Begins

The Colonization of Mars Begins

Cities will lead and nations will follow, the gravitational pull of smart cities continues to grow stronger. Future smart cities will be safer, cleaner and quieter thanks to advances in technology like electric autonomous vehicles.

Cities

The energy sector is currently undergoing rapid change, reductions in cost of solar and wind are fuelling the clean energy revolution. Many nations are rejecting traditional nuclear power stations, but can nuclear fusion power offer a long term solution?

Energy

The financial services industry is being transformed by new technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, innovative mobile banking startups and cryptocurrencies.

Finance

Future food production faces many problems, by 2050 we'll need to feed an additional 2 billion people. The future of food will be about producing more with less, with the aid of technology.

Food

Technological advances in healthcare such as wearables, 3D printing and smartphone apps are changing the way people get access to doctors and receive treatment.

Health

The retail sector is fast paced and continues to go though significant evolution with trends like, 3D printing, virtual reality and automated deliveries all to meet the new demands of new consumers.

Retail

The future of sport looks bright with technology advances such as virtual reality and e-sports increasing in popularity and realism, and athletes being allowed to use enhancements.

Sport

The rate of technological development continues to speed up and more computing power continues to get cheaper. Technologies that seemed to be confined to science fiction just a few decades ago may be much closer than we realize.

Technology

Technology has changed the way we interact with each other in our society, interacting with artificial intelligence will soon become a normal daily activity, allowing our society to evolve, freeing up time for us to spend on other issues.

Society

With the introduction of electric vertical takeoff landing (EVTOL) vehicles, smart roads and autonomous vehicles, future transport technologies that make it to the mainstream will be more connected, data-driven and highly automated.

Transport

With an increase in frequency and severity of major weather events like droughts and heat waves as well as the melting of the polar ice caps, we'll need to adapt to climate change to continue to produce enough resources for an increasing population.

Environment

New technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and educational software will make personal online learning the primary educational environment, leading to the demise of physical education campuses.

Education

Advancements in technology are fuelling a third revolution in warfare, developments such as autonomous weapons, hypersonic projectiles and exoskeleton suits are on the way.

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