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  2. List of NASA missions - Wikipedia

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    Start date First crewed flight End date No. of crewed missions launched Notes Mercury program: 1958 1961: 1963: 6: First U.S. crewed program Gemini program: 1961 1965: 1966: 10: Program used to practice space rendezvous and EVAs: Apollo program: 1960 1968: 1972: 11: Landed first humans on the Moon Skylab: 1964 1973: 1974: 3: First American ...

  3. List of Launch Services Program launches - Wikipedia

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    The launch history of NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) since the program formed in 1998 at Kennedy Space Center. The launch of NASA robotic missions occurred from a number of launch sites on a variety of rockets. After the list of launches are descriptions of select historic LSP missions.

  4. Timeline of space exploration - Wikipedia

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    Date Mission success Country/organization Mission name Ref(s). March 1960: First solar probe. USA (NASA) Pioneer 5: 19 August 1960: First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit. USSR Sputnik 5: 25 September 1960 First rocket engine fired in space. USA (NASA) Pioneer P-30 [10] 31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham).

  5. List of missions to the outer planets - Wikipedia

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    Mission Spacecraft Launch date Carrier rocket Operator Mission Type Outcome 1 Pioneer 11: Pioneer 11: 6 April 1973: Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1A [3] NASA: Flyby Successful First probe to reach Saturnian system. Closest approach on 1 September 1979 at 16:31 UTC. Flew past Iapetus, Dione, Mimas, Tethys, Enceladus, Rhea and Titan at long distances.

  6. List of human spaceflights - Wikipedia

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    NASA Private space corporations operating sub-orbital flights out of the United States Private space corporations operating orbital flights out of the United States CMSA; Decades Program Dates [a] No. [b] [c] Program [d] Dates No. [e] Company Program Dates No. [f] Company Program Dates No. Program Dates No. 1961–1970: Vostok: 1961–1963 6 ...

  7. List of astronauts by year of selection - Wikipedia

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    Inspiration Mars Foundation, an American nonprofit founded by Dennis Tito, aimed to launch a human mission to flyby Mars in January 2018, or, as the 2018 date was missed, in 2021. Flight candidates included husband and wife travel duo Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum , who participated in the Biosphere 2 experiment.

  8. Timeline of spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.

  9. List of Apollo missions - Wikipedia

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    Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]