One thing that happened in 2020 is some long-term trends in space commercialization started to come to fruition in an obvious way. Axios has a roundup:

• record (unmanned) “commercial launches”
• U.S. astronauts traveled to the International Space Station on a privately-owned-but-publicly-funded rocket.
• A bunch of space-related companies sold public stock

A “trend to watch” for 2021 is “megaconstellations of internet-beaming satellites like Starlink”. Wait, “like Starlink”? So there are others? How much space is really out there? This article says the business model is still unproven, but I say the real reason is that Elon Musk is a Bond villain.

This article is about near-Earth space commercialization, not space exploration or travel. Not covered are the wrinkle-resistant flag that China planted on the moon, a variety of un-manned missions to Mars and other planets/objects in the solar system, and the usual array of stories about physics and possible alien signals/contact.