2001
11 September - The United States of America is attacked by terrorists who use airplanes as their weapons. The attacks resulted in the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City and damage to part of the US Defense Department building, known as the Pentagon.
2003
1 February - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates while returning to Earth. Among the crew of seven astronauts was Ilan Ramon, an Air Force Colonel and the first citizen from the nation-state of Isreal.
2004
Following its flybys of Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980, NASA's space probe Voyager 1 crosses the solar system's termination shock.
2005
26 July - Space Shuttle Discovery, OV-104, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida USA. The event marks the beginning of America's “Return to Space” following the loss of Columbia. Discovery remained in orbit for nearly 14 days, landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California on August 9.
2007
Following its flybys of Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989, NASA space probe Voyager 2 crosses the solar system's termination shock.
2011
Officially known as the Space Transportation System, the Space Shuttle program comes to an end with the final flights of the remaining shuttles; Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, after 30 years of service to NASA and the United States.
2012
25 August - 35 years into its' mission of exploration, the NASA space probe Voyager 1 reaches interstellar space.
By the end of the year, the surviving Orbiter Vehicles from NASA's Space Shuttle program are “decommissioned” and transported to their final destinations as museums across the American nation.
2018
The Dax symbiont is born on Trill.
05 November - 41 years into its exploratory mission, the NASA probe Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space.
2026
Rising tensions over various issues across the globe result in large-scale terrorist attacks conducted by eco-terrorists over the next decade and a half. Over time these attacks result in the deaths of nearly 37 million people and mark the beginning of World War III.
2031
11 September - Numerous terrorists attacks occur around the globe resulting the destruction of the United Nations Headquarters, the deaths of the American President and 180 other international government leaders and diplomats in New York; severe damage to the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Buckingham & Westminster Palaces in London, UK and the destruction or severe damage to more than 300 UN World Heritage Sites.
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2032
Despite, or because of, the fact that WWIII was occurring; the International Space Agency, with assistance from NASA, launches the Ares mission to Mars, with Ares IV arriving in mid-October.
19 October - Mars probe Ares IV disappears in Martian orbit, stranding two astronauts on the surface until a rescue vessel arrives from Earth.
2053
A peace treaty is signed in San Francisco ending Earth's devastating World War III. At its' end, many of the world's major governments and cities are destroyed and 600 million people are dead.
2061
Zefram Cochrane invents faster-than-light travel using subspace; a spatial continuum with significantly different properties from normal space. He also invents the first engine that is capable of faster-than- light travel.
2063
5 April - Zefram Cochrane pilots the first space vehicle equipped with warp drive which he names the Phoenix. The development of the faster-than-light drive is a crucial milestone in human history. Later that day a Vulcan spacecraft lands on Earth, establishing humankind's first official contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence.
2065
S.S. Valiant is lost near the edge of the galaxy.
2079
Earth continues to recover from the post atomic horror, a recovery spawned by Cochrane's flight.
2088
Future Enterprise (NX-01) science officer T'Pol is born on Vulcan.