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Mission name Ref(s). March 1960: First solar probe. USA (NASA) Pioneer 5: 19 August 1960: First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit. USSR Sputnik 5: 25 September 1960 First rocket engine fired in space. USA (NASA) Pioneer P-30 [13] 31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham). First tasks performed in space. USA ...
During the mission, an uncrewed Orion capsule spent 10 days in a distant retrograde 60,000 kilometers (37,000 mi) orbit around the Moon before returning to Earth. [10] Artemis II, the first crewed mission of the program, will launch four astronauts in 2025 [11] on a free-return flyby of the Moon at a distance of 8,900 kilometers (5,500 mi). [12 ...
NASA list of EVA statistics Archived 2007-08-08 at the Wayback Machine (May not be updated) U. S. Human Spaceflight History; NASA JSC Oral History Project "Boomers collect artifacts, memories of NASA's heyday" Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine: Historical moonwalk information.
This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.
A chart showing relative accomplishments in human spaceflights (along with probes) visually graphing how the U.S. had far surpassed the Soviet Union in the 1970s with lunar missions, yet lagged years behind in space station activity. A chart showing U.S. astronaut assignments during the 1970s as graduated from the Mercury and Gemini programs.
The Mars 2020 mission was announced by NASA on December 4, 2012. In 2017 the three sites (Jezero crater, Northeastern Syrtis Major Planum, and Columbia Hills) were chosen as potential landing locations, with Jezero crater selected as the landing location, and launched on July 30th, 2020, from Cape Canaveral.
CAPSTONE (NASA) Danuri ; Advanced Composition Explorer – NASA mission to observe solar wind; Deep Space Climate Observatory – NOAA observatory for space weather; Aditya-L1 (ISRO) Mars Odyssey (NASA) Mars Express – ESA satellite orbiting Mars; Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA) Mars Science Laboratory – NASA rover to Mars; MAVEN – NASA ...
Continuing mission to study the atmosphere of Venus. Last contact 18 January 2015. [67] Phoenix Lander Mars 4 August 2007 25 May 2008 landed: 296 days (9 months, 22 days) Collected soil samples near Mars' north pole to elucidate the history of water on Mars. Mission concluded 10 November 2008. [68] Dawn: Asteroid 4 Vesta: 27 September 2007 16 ...