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NASA brought the Orion spacecraft back to life from the defunct Constellation program and successfully test-launched the first capsule on December 5, 2014, aboard EFT-1. After a near-perfect flight traveling 3,600 miles (5,800 km) above Earth, the spacecraft was recovered for study.
This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.
Launched: 5 August 2011; Destination: Jupiter; Arrival: 4 July 2016; Institution: NASA; New Horizons. Mission: the first spacecraft to study Pluto up close, and ultimately the Kuiper Belt. It was the fastest spacecraft when leaving Earth and will be the fifth probe to leave the Solar System. Launched: 19 January 2006; Destination: Pluto and Charon
Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle was the first crewed spacecraft to land on the Moon (July 20, 1969). This is a list of all crewed spacecraft types that have flown into space, including sub-orbital flights above 80 km, space stations that have been visited by at least one crew, and spacecraft currently planned to operate with crews in the future. [1]
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2019) ... First civilian-funded reusable spacecraft, lifted by White Knight to about 14 km
The Genesis spacecraft was a NASA sample return probe which collected a sample of solar wind and returned it to Earth for analysis. It was the first NASA sample return mission to return material since the Apollo Program, and the first to return material from beyond the orbit of the Moon. [57]
The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches. For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line , the FAI -recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL) . [ 1 ]
Baikonur 1/5 18 October 1967 entered atmosphere: 129 days (4 mo, 7 d) Venera 4, a Venus atmosphere probe, continued to transmit to an altitude of 25 km [2] Venera 5: Venus 5 January 1969 Molniya 8K78M Baikonur 1/5 16 May 1969 entered atmosphere: 132 days (4 mo, 12 d) Venera 5 was a Venus atmosphere probe. [3] Venera 6: Venus 10 January 1969 ...