List of NASA missions

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Since its establishment in 1958, NASA has undertaken many manned and unmanned space missions.

[edit] Human spaceflight

NASA has successfully accomplished many manned space missions. A small proportion have ended in failure, and even caused death of the crew, such as Apollo 1 in 1967, STS-51-L (the Challenger disaster) in 1986, and STS-107 (the Columbia disaster) in 2003.

Here is a list of all NASA manned space programs.

Program	Start Date	End Date	No. of launched manned missions	Notes
Mercury program	1959	1963	6
Gemini program	1963	1966	10
Apollo program	1961	1975	11^[1]
Skylab	1973	1979	3	The manned missions only took place in 1973 and 1974
Apollo-Soyuz	1975	1975	1	Joint with Soviet Union
Space Shuttle	1972	On-going	117
Shuttle-Mir Program	1995	1998	9^[2]	Russian partnership
International Space Station	1998	On-going	19^[3]	Joint with Russia, Canada, ESA, and JAXA along with co-operators, ASI and Brazil
Orion Program	Future	Future	0

^ - Apollo 1 was unlaunched due to a fire during testing that killed the astronauts, and is not counted here
^ - The Shuttle-Mir missions were all Space Shuttle missions, and are also counted under the Space Shuttle program missions in the table.
^ - The missions (International Space Station) counted here are only the NASA Space Shuttle missions, and are also counted under the Space Shuttle program missions in the table.

v • d • e United States government human spaceflight programs
Active: Space Shuttle \| ISS (joint) \| Project Constellation (future)
Past: X-15 (suborbital) \| Mercury \| Gemini \| Apollo \| Skylab \| Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (joint, USSR) \| Shuttle-Mir (joint, Russia)
Cancelled: MISS \| Orion \| Dyna-Soar \| Manned Orbiting Laboratory \| Space Station Freedom (now ISS) \| Orbital Space Plane

[edit] Unmanned missions

[edit] Lunar missions

Ranger
Surveyor
Lunar Orbiter
Clementine
Lunar Prospector
Moon Mineralogy Mapper (NASA instrument for ISRO's Chandraayan-1 spacecraft planned for 2007)
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Planned for 2008)

[edit] Planetary missions

[edit] Mercury missions

[edit] Venus missions

[edit] Mars missions

Mariner 4, 6, 7 and 9
Viking 1 and 2
Mars Observer
Mars Pathfinder
Mars Climate Orbiter
Mars Polar Lander
Mars Global Surveyor
2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Exploration Rovers
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Phoenix Lander (Planned for 2007)
Mars Science Laboratory (Planned for 2009)
Mars 2011 (Planned for 2011)
Astrobiology Field Laboratory (Planned for 2016)
Mars Scout 3 Mission (Planned for 2018) [4]
Mars Planetary Evolution and Meteorology Network (Planned for 2020) [5]
Mars Sample Return Mission (ESA partnership) (Planned for 2016-2024)^{Citation needed}

[edit] Jupiter missions

Pioneer 10
Galileo
Juno (Planned for 2010)

[edit] Saturn missions

Cassini-Huygens together with ESA

[edit] Neptune missions

Neptune Orbiter (Planned for 2016)

[edit] Pluto missions

New Horizons

[edit] Multi-planet missions

Pioneer 11 – Jupiter and Saturn
Mariner 10 – Venus and Mercury
Voyager 1 – Jupiter and Saturn
Voyager 2 – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

[edit] Asteroidal/cometary missions

[edit] Interplanetary missions

Pioneer 6, 7, 8 and 9 – Solar wind, solar magnetic field and cosmic rays

[edit] Sun observing missions

SOHO – ESA partnership
Ulysses – ESA partnership
STEREO
Solar Dynamics Observatory (Planned for 2008)

[edit] Earth satellites

[edit] Earth Observing

Explorer I
Complete list of Earth Observing System (EOS) missions: http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/mission_profiles/index.php
Landsat http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/
MODIS http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/
MISR http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/
Orbiting Carbon Observer (OCO) http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/
SeaWiFS Ocean color http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
THEMIS
TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics)

[edit] Space telescopes

Hubble Space Telescope – ESA partnership
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF)
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
James Webb Space Telescope – ESA partnership (Planned for 2013)

[edit] Proposed missions

Glory (proposed)

[edit] Canceled missions

[edit] Canceled planetary-asteroid missions

Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (cancelled)
JIMO (cancelled)
CRAF (cancelled)
Pluto Kuiper Express (cancelled; New Horizons is replacement)

[edit] See also

v • d • e Space Exploration Lists and Timelines
Timeline of spaceflight • List of human spaceflight programs • List of human spaceflights • List of space travelers • List of astronauts by name • List of astronauts by selection • Timeline of astronauts by nationality • List of Apollo astronauts • List of NASA missions • List of spacewalks and moonwalks • List of Space Shuttle missions • Timeline of Space Shuttle missions • Space Shuttle crews • List of Mir Expeditions • List of Mir visiting spacecrafts and crews • List of Mir spacewalks • List of manned spaceflights to the ISS • List of ISS Expeditions • List of ISS visitors • List of ISS spacewalks • List of unmanned spaceflights to the ISS • List of Chinese spaceflights• List of Constellation missions
Landings on other planets • List of planetary probes • Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes • List of objects at Lagrangian points • List of artificial objects on extra-terrestrial surfaces • List of artificial objects on the Moon • List of artificial objects on Venus • List of artificial objects on Mars • Timeline of Earth science satellites • List of Earth observation satellites
List of space exploration milestones, 1957-1969 • Space firsts • Spaceflight records • Timeline of first orbital launches by nationality • Timeline of Solar System exploration • Timeline of the Space Race
List of manned spacecraft • List of unmanned spacecraft by program • List of spacecraft • List of launch vehicles • Timeline of rocket and missile technology • List of space agencies • List of private spaceflight companies

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