[Game] Count to 10,000

[Spock]

2011 U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan.

[The Investigator]

2012: Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.

[Spock]

The MAVEN spacecraft, part of NASA's Mars Scout Program, is set to launch in 2013

[The Investigator]

2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.

[Spock]

July 1, 2015 Earth, Venus, and Jupiter will be aligned.

[The Investigator]

2016: NASA's Juno spacecraft is expected to arrive at Jupiter

[Spock]

August 21 2017 – A total solar eclipse will take place. This will be the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental U.S. since February 26, 1979. Totality will occur along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina, and will last at most for 2 minutes and 40.2 seconds. The location and time of "greatest eclipse" will be on the western edge of Christian County, Kentucky, at 36.9715 degrees north and 87.6559 degrees west, occurring at 18:25 UTC. NASA is expected to conduct the maiden flight of its Space Launch System, the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, which was ended in 2011.

[The Investigator]

2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

[Spock]

2019 Planned launch of Euclid

[The Investigator]

The 2020 Summer Olympics will be celebrated in either Istanbul, Madrid or Tokyo. The host city will be announced on September 7, 2013.

[Spock]

2021 Earliest expected date for the first manned Orion mission.

[The Investigator]

2022: FIFA's World Cup will be hosted by Qatar.

[Spock]

2023 Mars One hopes to establish the first human settlement on Mars.

[Spock]

2025 Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes have sufficient electrical power to operate their radio transmitters until at least 2025. Possible manned mission to Mars.

[SFC3]

In 2026, World War III begins over the issue of genetic engineering and Human genome enhancement. Among the major players of the war is Colonel Phillip Green, whose actions led to some 37 million deaths.