List of NASA missions

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This is a list of NASA missions, both manned and unmanned, since its establishment in 1958.

Contents 1 Human spaceflight 2 Unmanned missions 2.1 Lunar missions 2.2 Planetary missions 2.2.1 Mercury missions 2.2.2 Venus missions 2.2.3 Mars missions 2.2.4 Jupiter missions 2.2.5 Saturn missions 2.2.6 Uranus missions 2.2.7 Neptune missions 2.2.8 Pluto missions 2.2.9 Multi-planet missions 2.3 Asteroidal/cometary missions 2.4 Interplanetary missions 2.5 Sun observing missions 2.6 Earth satellites 2.6.1 Earth Observing 2.6.2 Space telescopes 2.6.2.1 Great Observatories program 2.6.2.2 Other 3 Proposed missions 4 Canceled missions 4.1 Canceled planetary-asteroid missions 5 Discovery Channel program 6 See also

[edit] Human spaceflight

NASA has successfully accomplished many human 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	First U.S. manned program
Gemini program	1963	1966	10	Program used to practice space rendezvous and EVA's
Apollo program	1961	1972	11[1]	Brought first human to the moon
Skylab	1973	1974	3	The manned missions only took place in 1973 and 1974; first American space station
Apollo-Soyuz	1975	1975	1	Joint with Soviet Union, only one mission
Space Shuttle	1981	On-going	120	Currently active, first missions in which a spacecraft was reused; planned to end in 2010
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
Project Constellation	Future	Future	0	Future program to once again bring humans to the moon

• ^  - 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) Spaceflight Portal Previous X-15 (suborbital) · Mercury · Gemini · Apollo · Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (with USSR) · Skylab · Shuttle-Mir (with Russia) Canceled MISS · Orion (nuclear) · Dyna-Soar · Manned Orbital 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 March, 2008)
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Planned for October 28, 2008)

[edit] Planetary missions

[edit] Mercury missions

• Mariner 10
• MESSENGER

[edit] Venus missions

• Mariner 2, 5 and 10
• Pioneer Venus (Pioneer 12 & Pioneer 13)
• Magellan

[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
• Mars Science Laboratory (Planned for 2009)
• Mars Scout 2013 (Planned for 2013)
• 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
• Pioneer 11
• Voyager 1
• Voyager 2
• Galileo
• New Horizons
• Juno (Planned for 2010)

[edit] Saturn missions

• Pioneer 11

• Voyager 1

• Voyager 2

• Cassini-Huygens together with ESA

[edit] Uranus missions

• Voyager 2

[edit] Neptune missions

• Voyager 2

• Neptune Orbiter (This is not happening anytime soon, NASA says maybe 2030 at the earliest)

[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
• New Horizons – Jupiter, Pluto

[edit] Asteroidal/cometary missions

• NEAR Shoemaker
• Deep Space 1
• Stardust
• Deep Impact
• Dawn

[edit] Interplanetary missions

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

[edit] Sun observing missions

• Solar Maximum Mission
• 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
• Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)
• 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

[edit] Great Observatories program

• 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)

[edit] Other

• Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
• Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
• Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
• Uhuru
• 1st High Energy Astrophysics Observatory (HEAO 1)
• Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2)
• 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] Discovery Channel program

In 2008, Discovery Channel will be airing a six-part documentary on the NASA missions, entitled "When we left Earth, the NASA missions". Narrated by award-winning actor Gary Sinise, the mini-series uses never before seen footage exclusively from NASAs film vault.

[edit] See also

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