Space Missions 1-22
22 entries in the Space Missions compendium.
Voyager 1First spacecraft to enter interstellar space.Voyager 2Only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune.Apollo 11First crewed mission to land humans on the Moon.Apollo 13Seventh crewed Apollo mission; aborted after oxygen tank explosion.Cassini-HuygensJoint mission to study Saturn and its moons.New HorizonsFirst spacecraft to explore Pluto and the Kuiper belt.The Mars roversMars rovers are remote-controlled motor vehicles designed to travel on the surface of MarsPerseveranceNASA rover searching for signs of ancient Martian life.CuriosityMars rover exploring Gale crater since 2012.The Hubble Space TelescopeA versatile space telescope observing ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light.The International Space StationThe International Space Station (ISS) is a modular space station in low Earth orbit, operaSputnik 1Sputnik 1, often referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite.Vostok 1First human orbital spaceflight, carrying Yuri Gagarin.The Space Shuttle programFirst reusable crewed space vehicle, flown 1981–2011.Rosetta and PhilaeFirst spacecraft to orbit and land on a comet.Hayabusa2Japanese asteroid sample-return mission that returned Ryugu samples to Earth.OSIRIS-RExParker Solar ProbeFirst spacecraft to fly into the Sun's low corona.JunoJuno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter, built by Lockheed Martin and operaGalileoFirst spacecraft to orbit an outer planet.Pioneer 10First spacecraft to traverse the asteroid belt and reach Jupiter.The Artemis programNASA-led program to return humans to the Moon.
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