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Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
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).
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.
Entered orbit on 24 September 2014. Mission extended to 2022, where the mission concluded on September 27, 2022 after contact was lost. [22] PSLV-XL: 42 MAVEN: MAVEN: 18 November 2013: NASA United States: Orbiter Operational Orbit insertion on 22 September 2014 [23] Atlas V 401: 43 ExoMars 2016: ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter: 14 March 2016: ESA ...
Emblem of the Artemis program. The Artemis program is a human spaceflight program by the United States.The Artemis program is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972; mid-term objectives include establishing an international expedition team, and a sustainable human presence on the Moon.
Timeline of Solar System exploration. List of missions to Venus; List of missions to the Moon; List of missions to Mars; List of missions to minor planets; List of extraterrestrial orbiters; Interstellar probe. List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System; List of proposed Solar System probes; Kuiper belt (approx. 30-50 AU, Pluto largest ...
List of missions to the Moon; N. List of NASA missions; O. List of missions to the outer planets; P. List of Progress missions; S.
Columbus Module at the International Space Station, launched into space on the U.S. Space Shuttle mission STS-122 in 2008.. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to space exploration.