The space community has ambitious plans but a new administration in the U.S. may tweak the priorities. NASA has a busy year of upcoming planetary events and missions for 2021. Here’s the list as kept by the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA), a home page archive of space science mission data: 2021 January - 2021 February 9 - Hope - United Arab Emirates mission reaches Mars and goes into orbit 2021 February - Tianwen 1 - Chinese orbiter, lander, and rover mission reaches Mars 2021 February 18 - Mars 2020 - NASA rover and rotorcraft land in Jezero crater on Mars 2021 February 20 - Parker Solar Probe - NASA solar mission makes fourth Venus flyby