Rocket Launches in 2021

Spaceflight in 2021: Perseverance lands on Mars in February, and in April its Ingenuity helicopter makes the first powered flight on another planet. China launches Tianhe, the core of its own space station, and lands its Zhurong rover on Mars. In July Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos ride their own companies' suborbital vehicles, and in September Inspiration4 flies the first all-civilian crew to orbit. The James Webb Space Telescope launches on 25 December.