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Comet Mission Outcome Remarks Carrier rocket [2] ICE (ISEE-3) 12 August 1978: NASA United States / ESA: 21P/Giacobini–Zinner: Flyby Successful Extended mission; Closest approach of 7,862 kilometres (4,885 mi) at 11:02 UTC on 11 September 1985. Also made distant observations of 1P/Halley in May 1986. [3] Delta 2914: Vega 1 (5VK No.901) 15 ...
Probe will study the results obtained by the NASA's DART impactor 4 years after its mission. [22] [23] Dimorphos 65803 Didymos I: 0.16: 2003: Hera: 2026: Probe will study the results obtained by the NASA's DART impactor 4 years after its mission. [23] 98943 Torifune: 0.5: 2001: Hayabusa2# 2026: Near-Earth asteroid of the Apollo group; extended ...
Galileo 's prime mission was a two-year study of the Jovian system, but on March 26, 1993, while it was en route, astronomers Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Eugene M. Shoemaker and David H. Levy discovered fragments of a comet orbiting Jupiter, the remains of a comet that had passed within Jupiter's Roche limit and had been torn apart by tidal forces.
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (or NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth in the UK) is a 2008 Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting American human spaceflight from the first Mercury flights and the Gemini program, to the Apollo program and its Moon missions and landings, to the Space Shuttle missions and the construction of the ...
To date, the last human to stand on the Moon was Eugene Cernan, who as part of the Apollo 17 mission, walked on the Moon in December 1972. Moon rock samples were brought back to Earth by three Luna missions (Luna 16, 20, and 24) and the Apollo missions 11 through 17 (except Apollo 13, which aborted its planned lunar landing).
The second moon that Earth has captured in its orbit this month is an asteroid called 2024 PT5. Mini-moons like this could be ideal targets for asteroid mining to send humans deeper into space ...
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This page lists all comets that have been studied in closeup by spacecraft. Pages in category "Comets visited by spacecraft" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.