they are something
in 2012 one of them is ..... new horizons.
"Recent history" meaning the past 20 years gives you the International Space Station, the Ares and Orion components of the Constellation program, the Herschel and Planck space telescopes of the European Space Agency, and the Japanese Space Agency's moon-orbiting probe Selene.
there has been no major space programs lately
Virgin galactic, rods from god, and the new space telescope. I forget the specific name.
stuff
Curiosity
Challenger was a space shuttle built by NASA. It exploded on January 28, 1986 which was a major disaster. After the accident, NASA's Space Shuttle fleet was grounded for almost three years.
2011
Space to stop and think about recent events/issues.
Akatsuki, and Juno
The most recent manned mission into space was Soyuz TMA-19.
Recent versions of Ubuntu Linux require about 5GB of space.