| January |
| 9 |
Second test flight of China's Shenzhou spacecraft |
| 24 |
Launch of Progress spacecraft to begin deorbit of Mir |
| 27 |
Arrival of Libery Bell 7 at Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, New Jersey |
| 28 |
15th anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger explosion |
| 31 |
30th anniversary of Apollo 14 |
| 31 |
40th anniversary of Mercury-Redstone 2 (Ham the chimpanzee) |
| February |
| TBA |
Release of "Red Moon" by Michael Cassutt |
| 6 |
STS-98 / ISS-5A launch (crew: Kenneth Cockrell, Mark Polansky, Robert Curbeam, Thomas Jones, Marsha Ivins) |
| 6 |
10th anniversary of Salyut-7 reentry |
| 19 |
15th anniversary of Mir Space Station |
| March |
| 1 |
Release of "Flight: My Life in Mission Control" by Christopher Columbus Kraft |
| 1 |
STS-102 / ISS-5A.1 launch (crew: James Wetherbee, James Kelly, Andy Thomas, Paul Richards, James Voss, Susan Helms, Yury Usachev) |
| 6 |
Mir Space Station to be deorbited |
| 15 |
Christie's (South Kensington, London) "Aviation Photographs and Space Memorabilia" auction |
| 16 |
35th anniversary of Gemini 8 |
| 31 |
Release of "Relics of the Space Race, 3rd Edition" by Russell Still |
| April |
| TBA |
Release of "Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module" by Thomas Kelly |
| TBA |
Release of "The Art of Chesley Bonestell" by Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant, III |
| 7 |
Mars Odyssey launch |
| 12 |
40th anniversary of Vostok 1 |
| 12 |
20th anniversary of STS-1 |
| 19 |
STS-100 / ISS-6A launch (crew: Kent Rominger, Jeff Ashby, Chris Hadfield, John Phillips, Scott Parazynski, Umberto Guidoni, Yuri Lonchakov) |
| 19 |
30th anniversary of Salyut 1 |
| 21 |
7th Annual Space Unit NYC Chapter Space Show (Queens, New York) |
| 30 |
Possible launch of American space tourist Dennis Tito on Soyuz to ISS |
| May |
| 3 |
Space Day (US) |
| 5 |
40th anniversary of Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) |
| 5/6 |
Superior Galleries space memorabilia auction |
| 17 |
STS-104 / ISS-7A launch (crew: Steven Lindsey, Charles Hobaugh, Michael Gernhardt, James Reilly, Janet Kavandi) |
| 25 |
40th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's 'moon goal' speech |
| June |
| 3 |
35th anniversary of Gemini 9 |
| 21 |
STS-105 / ISS-7A.1 launch (crew: Scott Horowitz, Rick Sturckow, Daniel Barry, Patrick Forrester, Frank Culbertson, Vladimir Dezhurov, Mikhail Turin) |
| 23 |
Arrival of Libery Bell 7 at St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 30 |
30th anniversary of Soyuz 11 tragedy |
| July |
| 18 |
35th anniversary of Gemini 10 |
| 20 |
20th anniversary of Viking 1 |
| 20 |
2nd anniversary of collectSPACE.com |
| 21 |
40th anniversary of Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7) |
| 26 |
30th anniversary of Apollo 15 |
| August |
| 2 |
STS-107 launch (Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon) |
| 6 |
40th anniversary of Vostok 2 |
| 17 |
35th anniversary of Pioneer 7 |
| September |
| 8 |
35th anniversary of Star Trek |
| 12 |
35th anniversary of Gemini 11 |
| 29 |
Arrival of Libery Bell 7 at The Tech Museum, San Jose, California |
| October |
| TBA |
Association of Space Explorers Planetary Congress, Astana, Kazakhstan |
| 4 |
Beginning of World Space Week |
| 4 |
STS-108 / ISS-UF1 launch (crew: TBA) |
| November |
| TBA |
Superior Galleries space memorabilia auction |
| 11 |
35th annivesary of Gemini 12 |
| December |
| Also expected in 2001... |
| TBA |
Release of Scott Carpenter's memoirs |
| TBA |
Release of Guenter Wendt's biography |
| TBA |
Many, many astronaut appearances! |
