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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 ...
Mission success Country/organization 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).
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.
Timeline of longest spaceflights is a chronology of the longest spaceflights. Many of the first flights set records measured in hours and days, the space station missions of the 1970s and 1980s pushed this to weeks and months, and by the 1990s the record was pushed to over a year and has remained there into the 21st century.
The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches. For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line , the FAI -recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL) . [ 1 ]
The Luna programme was the first successful lunar programme, its Luna 1 (1959) being the first partially successful lunar mission The first image taken of the far side of the Moon, returned by Luna 3 (1959) Missions to the Moon have been numerous and include some of the earliest space missions, conducting exploration of the Moon since 1959.
This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: It includes: All spacecraft that have left Earth orbit for the purposes of Solar System exploration (or were launched with that intention but failed), including lunar probes .
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 ...