I've volunteered to give a presentation with approximately the title above at an upcoming science fiction convention. Items I want to include are listed below (not yet in any particular order). Suggestions are welcome with regard to both content and organization.

What's happened (2006, roughly):

- Latest WMAP findings
- Mars rovers (Spirit 1000 sols, Oppy to Victoria)
- MRO (arrival, first pictures)
- Mars Express (cool pictures, including "Face")
- STEREO launch
- Cassini (backlit Saturn, Earth imaged)
- New Horizons launch
- End of SMART-1
- Latest cool photos from Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra
- Shuttle returning to operational status

What's coming (short- and long-term):
- New Horizons Jupiter encounter
- Cassini (Iapetus)
- STEREO operational
- Hubble servicing
- COROT
- JWST
- MESSENGER
- Phoenix Mars lander
- Orion/Constellation/Ares: what's up with manned flight
- GLAST
- Dawn
- THEMIS

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