18th March 2026

2036 – The Venera-D mission arrives at Venus

[Updated and moved from 2027 to 2036, based on the latest announcement]

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14th March 2026

2035 – Completion of the Hudson Tunnel Project

Beneath the Hudson River, two new tunnels are transforming the busiest rail corridor in North America. The largest federally funded mass transit project in U.S. history, this removes a major bottleneck between New Jersey and Manhattan.

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13th March 2026

2035 – Robotic-assisted surgery is routine across the NHS

In England alone, robotic systems now assist with 500,000 procedures annually. Surgeons also carry out remote operations via telesurgery, extending specialist care to hospitals across the country and beyond.

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6th March 2026

32,000 AD – Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1 returns to Earth

One of the oldest human-made objects in Earth orbit completes an extraordinary journey, as a small aluminium sphere launched in 1965 finally returns to Earth after 30 millennia.

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6th February 2026

2026-2027 – The world's first trillionaire

During this period, Elon Musk's net worth accelerates toward the $1 trillion mark. Earlier forecasts from the mid-2010s had placed this milestone much later, but rapid asset repricing and AI-driven growth are now pulling it forward by over a decade.

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17th January 2026

2030 – The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider enters operation

[Updated with latest known information and moved from 2026 to 2030.]

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5th January 2026

2026 – Hydrogen-based steelmaking reaches industrial scale

This year, steelmaking takes a major step toward decarbonisation, as the first industrial-scale hydrogen-powered plants enter operation and begin reducing the reliance on coal.

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3rd January 2026

2036 – Contact with the Voyager probes is lost

[Moved from an earlier range of 2025–2028 to the more specific year 2036, based on NASA's updated estimate. As of 2026, the scientific measurements are winding down, as instruments are shut off to conserve power, but the probes' engineering and telemetry data are expected to continue transmitting well into the 2030s. See the updated reference for details.]

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3rd January 2026

2026 – Europe's first successful vertical rocket launch into space

[Moved from 2025 to 2026.]

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2nd January 2026

2027 – Direct flights from Sydney to London and New York

[Moved from 2025 to 2027.]

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31st December 2025

2200-2225 – Humanity begins travelling between the stars

The first quarter of the 23rd century is marked by humanity's transition from interstellar probes to the earliest crewed journeys beyond the Solar System, driven by breakthroughs in antimatter propulsion.

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