• 2008 January 15 MESSENGER First flyby of Mercury

• 2008 January 28 DEADLINE: NASA Exploration System Mission Directorate Higher Education Project

• 2008 January 31- Fifth Annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol Rotunda

• 2008 January 31 DEADLINE: Undergraduate Student Research Program

• 2008 February 1 NASA Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars Program deadline

• 2008 March 6 DEADLINE: NASA WVSGC Request for Proposals

• 2008 September 5 Rosetta ESA mission flies by Asteroid 2867 Steins

• 2008 October 6 MESSENGER Second flyby of Mercury

• 2008 October Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Launch of Moon Orbiter

• 2008 Kepler Launch of NASA Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Detection Mission

• 2009 September 30 MESSENGER Third flyby of Mercury

• 2009 Mars Scientific Laboratory Launch of Mars Rover

• 2010 June Hayabusa Return of ISAS Sample Return Mission from Asteroid Itokawa to Earth

• 2010 July 10 Rosetta ESA mission flies by Asteroid 21 Lutetia

• 2010 Planet-Launch of ISAS Venus Orbiter

• 2011 March 18 MESSENGER Goes into orbit around Mercury

• 2011 Mars Scout Mission Launch of NASA Scout mission to Mars

• 2012 June 6 Transit of Venus Venus Crosses the Sun's Disk

• 2012 September BepiColombo Launch of ESA and ISAS Orbiter and Lander Missions to Mercury

• 2014 May-November Rosetta ESA mission reaches Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko

• 2014 November Philae ESA Rosetta Lander touches down on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko

• 2014 Mars Sample Return Mission Launch of NASA sample return mission to Mars

• 2015 July New Horizons NASA mission reaches Pluto and Charon

• 2231 April 5 Pluto is passed by Neptune in distance from the Sun for the next 20 years

• 4,000,000 Pioneer 11 NASA flyby of star Lambda Aquila