Mission↕ | Year↕ | Type↕ | Crew Size↕ | Duration↕ | Outcome↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) | 1961 | Crewed suborbital | 1 | 15 minutes | Success | First American in space (Alan Shepard) |
Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7) | 1962 | Crewed orbital | 1 | 4 hours 55 min | Success | First American to orbit Earth (John Glenn) |
Gemini 4 | 1965 | Crewed orbital | 2 | 4 days | Success | First American spacewalk (Ed White) |
Apollo 8 | 1968 | Crewed lunar orbit | 3 | 6 days | Success | First humans to orbit the Moon, Earthrise photo |
Apollo 11 | 1969 | Crewed lunar landing | 3 | 8 days | Success | First humans on the Moon (Armstrong & Aldrin) |
Apollo 13 | 1970 | Crewed lunar (aborted) | 3 | 5 days 22 hours | Successful failure | Crew survived oxygen tank explosion, 'Houston we've had a problem' |
Skylab | 1973 | Space station | 3 | 171 days (longest stay) | Success | First American space station, studied solar science |
Apollo-Soyuz | 1975 | Joint US-Soviet | 3 | 9 days | Success | First international crewed space mission |
Viking 1 | 1975 | Mars lander/orbiter | 0 | 6 years (lander) | Success | First successful Mars landing, searched for life |
Voyager 1 | 1977 | Outer planet flyby | 0 | Ongoing (49 years) | Success | Farthest human-made object, entered interstellar space 2012 |
Voyager 2 | 1977 | Outer planet flyby | 0 | Ongoing (49 years) | Success | Only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune |
STS-1 (Columbia) | 1981 | Space Shuttle | 2 | 2 days 6 hours | Success | First Space Shuttle mission |
STS-31 (Hubble Deploy) | 1990 | Space Shuttle | 5 | 5 days | Success | Deployed the Hubble Space Telescope |
Mars Pathfinder | 1996 | Mars rover | 0 | 83 days | Success | First Mars rover (Sojourner), proved low-cost Mars missions possible |
ISS Assembly (Zarya) | 1998 | Space station | 0 | Ongoing | Success | First module of the International Space Station |
Mars Exploration Rovers | 2003 | Mars rovers | 0 | Spirit 6yr, Opportunity 15yr | Success | Opportunity drove 45 km on Mars, found evidence of water |
Cassini-Huygens | 1997 | Saturn orbiter/lander | 0 | 20 years | Success | Revealed Saturn's rings, landed on Titan, discovered Enceladus geysers |
New Horizons | 2006 | Pluto flyby | 0 | Ongoing | Success | First close-up images of Pluto and its heart-shaped glacier |
Curiosity (MSL) | 2011 | Mars rover | 0 | Ongoing (14+ years) | Success | Car-sized rover, found ancient habitable environment on Mars |
Juno | 2011 | Jupiter orbiter | 0 | Ongoing | Success | Studying Jupiter's atmosphere, magnetosphere, and interior |
OSIRIS-REx | 2016 | Asteroid sample return | 0 | 7 years | Success | Collected sample from asteroid Bennu, returned to Earth 2023 |
InSight | 2018 | Mars lander | 0 | 4 years | Success | First to detect marsquakes, studied Mars interior |
Perseverance | 2020 | Mars rover | 0 | Ongoing | Success | Searching for ancient microbial life, carried Ingenuity helicopter |
James Webb Space Telescope | 2021 | Space telescope | 0 | Ongoing | Success | Most powerful space telescope, observing earliest galaxies |
Artemis I | 2022 | Uncrewed lunar orbit | 0 | 25 days | Success | First Artemis mission, tested Orion capsule and SLS rocket for Moon return |
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