Whats special about the year 2012? Anyway, to answer your question, go out a few night before Christmas this year and look at the night sky. The night sky of 2012 (for that same time) will be almost exactly the same-so similar you probably won't notice the difference...unless it's cloudy .

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"Human curiosity and the desire to make the intangible tangible, has led us into a new age where the New World has been settled, and the West has been won. But if you think that we, the human race, has conquered everything there is to conquer, then just look to the sky--at space--last and greatest of the frontiers."