MISSION RECORD1969
Apollo 11
The first crewed mission to land humans on the Moon and return them safely to Earth.
- AGENCY
- NASA
- YEAR
- 1969
NEON ARCHIVE / MISSION DATABASE
Follow the missions.
Structured records for the machines, people, and decisions that carried science beyond Earth.
MISSION RECORD1970
Apollo 13
A lunar mission transformed into a high-stakes rescue after an oxygen tank failure.
- AGENCY
- NASA
- YEAR
- 1970
MISSION RECORD1977
Voyager 1
The farthest human-made object, still returning a faint signal from interstellar space.
- AGENCY
- NASA / JPL
- YEAR
- 1977
MISSION RECORD1977
Voyager 2
The only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune, now traveling through interstellar space.
- AGENCY
- NASA / JPL
- YEAR
- 1977
MISSION RECORD1997
Cassini–Huygens
A thirteen-year Saturn campaign that revealed active moons, complex rings, and Titan’s surface.
- AGENCY
- NASA / ESA / ASI
- YEAR
- 1997
MISSION RECORD2006
New Horizons
The first close reconnaissance of Pluto and the first exploration of a Kuiper Belt object.
- AGENCY
- NASA / JHUAPL
- YEAR
- 2006
MISSION RECORD2011
Curiosity
A mobile laboratory studying whether ancient Mars once offered environments favorable to life.
- AGENCY
- NASA / JPL
- YEAR
- 2011
MISSION RECORD2021
James Webb Space Telescope
A segmented infrared telescope studying early galaxies, stellar nurseries, and exoplanet atmospheres.
- AGENCY
- NASA / ESA / CSA
- YEAR
- 2021
MISSION RECORD2020
Perseverance
A rover and sample-caching laboratory exploring Jezero Crater’s ancient river delta.
- AGENCY
- NASA / JPL
- YEAR
- 2020
MISSION RECORD2021
DART
The first mission to demonstrate changing an asteroid moonlet’s orbit by kinetic impact.
- AGENCY
- NASA / APL
- YEAR
- 2021
MISSION RECORD2016
OSIRIS-REx
A sample-return mission that collected material from near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
- AGENCY
- NASA / Goddard
- YEAR
- 2016
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