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The Mariner program was carried out between 1962 and late 1973 by NASA and the Jet Propulsion...

NASA's Space Shuttle program was its fourth human spaceflight program, which accomplished routine...

Perseverance is a car-sized rover on Mars that is designed to explore the Jezero crater as part of...

Rosetta was a space probe built by the ESA that launched on March 2, 2004, to perform a detailed...

Clementine was launched on January 25, 1994, with the objective of testing sensors and spacecraft...

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) NASA mission was developed to observe the Sun and enhance our...

The Magellan robotic space probe was launched on May 4, 1989, by NASA to map the surface of Venus...

Gemini 2 was the second uncrewed spaceflight of Project Gemini that was launched on January 19,...

Stardust was a robotic space probe launched in 1999, with the primary mission of collecting cosmic...

Gaia is a space observatory launched on December 19, 2013, by the European Space Agency (ESA),...

MAVEN is a 2013 American spacecraft intended to study the loss of Mars' atmospheric gases to space...

Gemini XII was the 10th and final crewed Gemini flight, commanded by NASA veteran James A. Lovell...

The Venera program was a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984...

2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft project developed by NASA that was sent to orbit Mars to...

Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in the Apollo program after the Apollo 1 disaster that...

Dawn is a retired space probe that NASA launched in September 2007 to study Ceres and Vesta, two of...

Gemini XI was the ninth crewed spaceflight in the Gemini project, which flew from September 12 to...

Genesis was a NASA sample-return space probe that collected and returned solar wind particles for...

Gemini V was a crewed spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini that launched on August 21, 1965. Gemini...

Vostok 2 was a space mission that took Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on...