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| x Project Apollo |
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NASA | Apollo 1 | 1963 |
The Apollo program was a NASA spaceflight endeavor that landed the first humans on Earth's moon. Conceived during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after US President John F. Kennedy announced his support for a manned...
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| x Mariner program |
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NASA | Mariner 1 |
The Mariner program was a program conducted by the American space agency NASA that launched a series of robotic interplanetary probes designed to investigate Mars, Venus and Mercury. The program included a number of firsts, including the first...
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| x Voyager program |
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NASA | Mariner 10 | 1977 |
The Voyager program is a series of U.S. unmanned space missions that consists of a pair of unmanned scientific probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable planetary alignment of the late 1970s....
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Soviet Union | Venera 13 | 1961 |
The Venera series of probes was developed by the USSR between 1961 and 1984 to gather data from Venus. As with some of the USSR's other planetary probes, the later versions were launched in pairs with a second vehicle being launched soon after the...
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| x Korean Astronaut Program |
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South Korea |
The Korean Astronaut Program was an initiative by the South Korean government to send the first Korean into space via the Russian space program.
On December 25, 2006, two candidates, one woman and one man, were selected by South Korea during a...
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| x Project Mercury |
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NASA | Mercury-Atlas 1 | 1959 |
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth. The Mercury-Atlas 6 flight on 20 February 1962 was the first Mercury flight to...
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| x Project Gemini |
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NASA | Gemini 6A | 1965 |
Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini operated between Projects Mercury and Apollo, with 10 manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966. Its objective...
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| x Mars Surveyor '98 program |
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NASA | Mars Climate Orbiter |
The Mars Surveyor '98 program comprised two spacecraft launched separately, the Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) and the Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander); on board the Mars Polar Lander...
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| x Mars probe program |
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Soviet Union | 1962 |
The Mars program was a series of Mars unmanned landers and orbiters launched or attempted to launch by the Soviet Union as part of the soviet space program in the 1960s-1970s.
The first Soviet attempts to send a probe to Mars were the two probes of...
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| x Mars Scout Program | NASA | Phoenix Mars Mission | 2007 |
The Mars Scout Program is a NASA program to send a series of small, low-cost missions to Mars, competitively selected from innovative proposals by the scientific community.
The first robotic spacecraft in this program was Phoenix, a lander...
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| x Blue Origin New Shepard |
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Blue Origin |
The Blue Origin New Shepard reusable launch vehicle is a manned rocket which is being developed by Blue Origin, a company owned by Amazon.com founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos, as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism. The New Shepard...
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| x SpaceShipTwo |
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Virgin Galactic |
Scaled Composites' Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is a suborbital spaceplane for carrying space tourists, under development by The Spaceship Company, a joint venture between Scaled Composites and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, as part of the Tier...
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Telesat Canada | Anik F1 |
The Anik satellites are geostationary communications satellites launched by Telesat Canada for television in Canada. In Inuktitut, Anik means "little brother".
The Anik A satellites were the world's first national domestic satellites. They gave the...
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| x Lunar and Planetary Laboratory |
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Phoenix Mars Mission |
The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) is a research center for planetary science located in Tucson, Arizona. It is also a graduate school, constituting the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona. LPL is one of the world's...
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| x Lunokhod programme |
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Lunokhod 2 |
Lunokhod (Russian: Луноход, "Moonwalker") 1 and 2 were a pair of Soviet robotic lunar rovers landed on the Moon in 1970 and 1973, respectively. They were in operation concurrently with the Zond series of flyby missions. The Lunokhod missions were...
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| x Space Shuttle program |
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NASA | STS-1 |
NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's current manned launch vehicle. The winged Space Shuttle orbiter is launched vertically, usually carrying five to seven astronauts (although...
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| x Blue Origin Goddard | Blue Origin |
Blue Origin Goddard is the name of the first development vehicle in the Blue Origin New Shepard program, which flew for the first time on November 13, 2006. Named after rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard, the vehicle is a subscale demonstrator and flew...
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| x Ark I |
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| x Lifeboat WaveRiders |
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Lifeboat Foundation |
Lifeboat WaveRiders, to be used by Ark I for cargo, construction and travel purposes, are uniquely designed on an operative principle very different from that of conventional aircraft. WaveRiders "surf" on their own shock waves. Gliding at...
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Soviet Union |
The Soviet space program refers to the rocketry and space exploration programs conducted by the Soviet Union (USSR) from the 1930s until its dissolution in 1991. Over its sixty-year history, this primarily classified military program was responsible...
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| x Soyuz programme |
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Russian Federal Space Agency | Soyuz 6 |
The Soyuz programme (Russian: Союз, pronounced [soˈjus], meaning "Union") is a human spaceflight programme that was initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. It was originally part of a Moon landing programme intended to put a Soviet...
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| Soviet Union | Soyuz 7 | ||||
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| x Vostok programme |
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Soviet Union | Vostok 4 |
The Vostok programme (Russian: Восто́к, translated as Orient or East) was a Soviet human spaceflight project that succeeded in putting a person into Earth orbit for the first time. The programme developed the Vostok spacecraft from the Zenit spy...
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| x Skylab |
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NASA | Skylab 3 |
Skylab was the United States' first space station, and the second space station visited by a human crew. It was also the only space station NASA launched alone. The 100-ton space station was in Earth's orbit from 1973 to 1979 and it was visited by...
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| x Sputnik program |
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Soviet Union | Sputnik 2 |
The Sputnik program (Russian: Спутник, Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputnʲɪk]) was a series of robotic spacecraft missions launched by the Soviet Union. The first of these, Sputnik 1, launched the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. That launch...
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| x Chinese Lunar Exploration Program |
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China National Space Administration | Chang'e program |
Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) (simplified Chinese: 中国探月; traditional Chinese: 中國探月; pinyin: Zhōngguó Tànyuè) is a program of robotic explorations and human missions to the Moon undertaken by China National Space Administration (CNSA),...
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| x Shenzhou program | China National Space Administration | Shenzhou 7 |
The Shenzhou program (Chinese: 神舟; pinyin: Shénzhōu) is a manned spaceflight initiative by the People's Republic of China. The program put the first Chinese citizen into orbit on 15 October 2003.
Development began in 1992, under the name of Project...
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| x Saturn |
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NASA | A-104 |
The Saturn family of rockets were developed by a team of mostly German rocket scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. Originally proposed as a military satellite launcher, they were adopted as the...
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| x Voskhod programme |
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Soviet Union | Voskhod 2 |
The Voskhod programme (Russian: Восход, "ascent", "dawn") was a Soviet human spaceflight project. Voskhod development was both a follow-on to the Vostok programme, recycling components left over from that programme's cancellation following its first...
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| x International Space Station |
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Russian Federal Space Agency | Expedition 12 |
The International Space Station (ISS) is an internationally developed research facility currently being assembled in Low Earth Orbit. On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998 and is scheduled for completion by 2011, with operations...
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| Canadian Space Agency | Expedition 7 | ||||
| European Space Agency | Expedition 9 | ||||
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| x Tier One |
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SpaceShipOne flight 16P |
Tier One is Scaled Composites' program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight. The craft are designed by Burt Rutan, and the project is funded 20 million US Dollars by Paul Allen. In...
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| x North American X-15 |
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X-15 Flight 3-65-97 |
The North American X-15 rocket-powered aircraft was part of the X-series of experimental aircraft, initiated with the Bell X-1, that were made for the USAF, NASA, and the USN. The X-15 set speed and altitude records in the early 1960s, reaching the...
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| x Salyut program | Salyut 7 | ||||
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Mir |
Mir (Russian: Мир; lit. Peace or World) was a Soviet and later Russian space station. It was the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, and the first of the third generation type of space station, constructed from...
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Project Vanguard was a program managed by the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), which intended to launch the first artificial satellite into Earth orbit using a Vanguard rocket as the launch vehicle.
In response to the surprise launch...
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| x Explorer program |
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The Explorer program ia a NASA program that provides frequent flight opportunities for world-class scientific investigations from space utilizing innovative, streamlined and efficient management approaches within the heliophysics and astrophysics...
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| x Small Explorer program |
The Small Explorer program (SMEX) is an effort within NASA to fund space exploration missions that cost no more than $120 million.
The first set of three SMEX missions were launched between 1992-07-03 and 1998-12-05. The second set of two missions...
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