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Yr 2000-Yr 2014: Space Exploration

The document summarizes key events and technological advances between 2000-2014. In space exploration, Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in 2001, China's first manned space flight in 2003, and Mars rovers discovered evidence of water on Mars in 2004. Medicine saw its first partial face transplant in 2005 and complete face transplant in 2012. Storage mediums transitioned from DVDs and CDs to online streaming, while smartphones and tablets increasingly replaced desktop computers after 2010.

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Yr 2000-Yr 2014: Space Exploration

The document summarizes key events and technological advances between 2000-2014. In space exploration, Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in 2001, China's first manned space flight in 2003, and Mars rovers discovered evidence of water on Mars in 2004. Medicine saw its first partial face transplant in 2005 and complete face transplant in 2012. Storage mediums transitioned from DVDs and CDs to online streaming, while smartphones and tablets increasingly replaced desktop computers after 2010.

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yr 2000- yr 2014

The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 marks the continual rise of Life
Sciences,which makes mankind's long-held dreams such as curing aging and cancer more
and more realistic.

While digital technology, in its early stages of mainstream use in the 1980s and 1990s,
became widely accepted by most of the world, though concerns about stress from the
overuse of mobile phones, the Internet and related technologies remains controversial.[4]
As of 2013, about 80 percent of the world's population uses mobile phones.[5]

Space exploration

2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist by paying $19 million to board
the International Space Station.

2003 The Chinese space program launches its first manned space flight, Shenzhou 5, on
October 15. This made China the third country in the world to have indigenous manned space
capability

2004 Mars Exploration Rovers land on Mars; Opportunity discovers evidence that an area
of Mars was once covered in water.

2004 SpaceShipOne makes the first privately funded human spaceflight, June 21

2007 China launches its first lunar mission with the Chang'e 1 on October 24.

2009 The Indian Space Research Organisation discovers water on the Moon

2012 SpaceX successfully delivers cargo to the International Space Station, private
exploration of space begins.

2012 NASA successfully lands the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.

Medicine

2005 The first successful partial face transplant is performed in France.

2012 The first successful complete face transplant is performed in Turkey.

2013 - First kidney grown in vitro in the U.S.

2013 - First human liver grown from stem cells in Japan.

Storage and mediums

DVD technology replaces the VCR in the start of the 21st century, circa 2007.

Blu-ray technology emerges.

Compact Discs succeed Cassettes, and became rapidly removed by digital downloads and
online streaming.

High Definition Television is replacing Standard definition

3D technology becomes popular in the late 1990s and early 2010s.

The World Wide Web and websites becomes a major new medium for storing files and
information.

Since the introduction of smartphones and tablets with 3G and 4G, mobile devices are
connected with the internet. These gradually start to replace desktop and laptop computers in
the early and mid 2010s, although laptop and desktop computers are still common in business,
financial, medical, governmental, and educational settings. The smartphone and tablets become
standard for consumers.

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