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In the 25 days sinceSpace.comfirst launched its blank news commission on July 20 , 1999 , humans has accomplished awesome effort in galactic research and spaceflight . But what lie ahead in the next quarter century ?

Join Space.com as they fete their 25th anniversary by looking to the time to come of man ’s compass into the cosmos with the live virtual panel " The Next 25 age of Space Exploration — To the Moon , Mars and Beyond " at12 p.m. EDT on July 17on this pageand on the Space.com homepage .

Rocket liftoff

The panelists will be :

Be certain to join Space.com on July 17 for what promises to be an astonishing treatment on the future of space exploration and astronomy .

A two paneled image. On the left, a microscope image of the rete ovarii. On the right, an illustration of exoplanet k2-18b

A two paneled image. On one side, a space capsule in the ocean. On the other side, an illustration of a human with a DNA strand

An artist�s illustration of SPHEREx orbiting above Earth.

In the dark of night, a rocket blasts fire from its engines, sending plumes of smoke jetting out as it climbs the launch tower out of frame. A SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket launches from LC-39A, at NASA�s Kennedy Space Center, in Floriday, carrying members of SpaceX�s Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station, April 27, 2022.

A screenshot of a video showing the Fram2 Dragon capsule moving over Antarctica

an illustration of a base on the moon

a photo of the Milky Way reflecting off of an alpine lake at night

A composite image of the rings on Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter

an illustration of Mars

An artist�s illustration of a satellite crashing back to Earth.

An illustration of a satellite crashing into the ocean after an uncontrolled reentry through Earth�s atmosphere

An aerial photo of mountains rising out of Antarctica snowy and icy landscape, as seen from NASA�s Operation IceBridge research aircraft.

A tree is silhouetted against the full completed Annular Solar Eclipse on October 14, 2023 in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.

Screen-capture of a home security camera facing a front porch during an earthquake.

Circular alignment of stones in the center of an image full of stones

Three-dimensional rendering of an HIV virus

a top down image of a woman doing pilates on a reformer machine