2009 February 27 -
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - Launch of Moon Orbiter
2009 April 10 -
Kepler - Launch of NASA Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Detection Mission
2009 September 30 -
MESSENGER - Third flyby of Mercury
2009 Fall -
Mars Scientific Laboratory - Launch of Mars Rover
2010 June -
Hayabusa - Return of ISAS Sample Return Mission from Asteroid Itokawa to Earth
2010 July 10 -
Rosetta - ESA mission flies by Asteroid 21 Lutetia
2010 October 11 -
Deep Impact/EPOXI - Encounters Comet Hartley 2
2010 -
Planet-C - Launch of ISAS Venus Orbiter
2011 February 14 -
Stardust - Flies by Comet Tempel 1
2011 March 18 -
MESSENGER - Goes into orbit around Mercury
2011 September -
LADEE - Launch of NASA Orbiter to the Moon
2011 September -
GRAIL - Launch of NASA Orbiter to the Moon
2011 -
Mars Scout Mission - Launch of NASA Scout mission to Mars
2012 June 6 -
Transit of Venus - Venus Crosses the Sun's Disk
2012 September -
BepiColombo - Launch of ESA and ISAS Orbiter and Lander Missions to Mercury
2014 May-November -
Rosetta - ESA mission reaches Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
2014 November -
Philae - ESA Rosetta Lander touches down on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
2014 -
Mars Sample Return Mission - Launch of NASA sample return mission to Mars
2015 July 14 -
New Horizons - NASA mission reaches Pluto and Charon
2231 April 5 -
Pluto - is passed by Neptune in distance from the Sun for the next 20 years
4,000,000 -
Pioneer 11 - NASA
flyby of star Lambda Aquila