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Ill share some of mine, given how I think NASA / SpaceX / Space exploration is going compared to previous decades, I think we'll see a lot this century:

2030s - Sustained human presence on the moon with surface habitats, preliminary Mars missions limited in scope. Titan methane sea submarine mission

2040s - Large scale lunar research stations and orbital stations. Orbital stations opened to tourists, lunar stations opened to professionals / scientists. Human crews enter orbit around Venus, but I don't think a landing would be possible

2050s - large scale Mars stations and preliminary colonization attempts. Enceladus lander/rover mission. More missions to mercury and the Belt. companies begin mining the moon to relieve earth's environments

2060s - Human crews arrive in the asteroid belt. People begin living and working for extended periods on the Moon and Mars, as well as orbital stations. Space based solar power becomes a huge part of the energy market given the depletion of fossil fuels. Space based agriculture begins to exist alongside earth based farms

I could go on, but what do you all think? At first I thought a couple of these were somewhat far fetched. But the Wright brothers flew the first airplane in 1903, and men landed on the moon in 1969. Given humans did that in less than 65 years, I think we as a species have the potential to go very far through the year 2100. Things like Starship and its high capacity into space alongside ever reducing launch costs in the industry make all of these very possible in my eyes. Optimistically speaking, some of these may happen quicker than others.

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