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Voyager 2

Voyager 2 is a NASA-built spacecraft deployed in 1977. It’s notable for being the first to explore Uranus and Neptune pr...

Active Nasa Interstellar Outer Planets

10.0 Brilliant

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Voyager 1

Voyager 1 is an active NASA spacecraft launched in 1977. It undertook a flyby mission to Jupiter and Saturn. The probe a...

Active Nasa Interstellar Outer Planets

9.9 Brilliant

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Apollo 8

The Apollo 8 mission involved a three-man NASA crew – Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders – undertaking the f...

Lunar Nasa Apollo Past

9.7 Brilliant

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Vostok 1

The Vostok 1 mission represents a pivotal moment in space exploration history. Launched by the Soviet Union in April 196...

Soviet Past Leo Crewed

9.7 Brilliant

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Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity)

The Mars Science Laboratory is a NASA robotic space mission that landed the car-sized Curiosity rover in Gale Crater on...

Nasa Mars Rover 2011

9.7 Brilliant

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Mars 2020 (Perseverance)

Mars 2020 is an ongoing NASA space mission that successfully landed the Perseverance rover in Mars's Jezero Crater in Fe...

2020 Nasa Mars Rover

9.7 Brilliant

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OSIRIS-REx (Bennu Sample Return)

OSIRIS-REx is a NASA spacecraft mission designed to travel to the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, collect a surface sa...

2023 Nasa Asteroid Earth Return

9.7 Brilliant

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STS-61 Hubble Servicing

STS-61 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission dedicated to servicing the Hubble Space Telescope. As the first s...

Nasa 1993 Shuttle Hubble Repair

9.6 Brilliant

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Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity

The Opportunity rover was a NASA mission designed to study the geology of Mars’ Meridiani Planum region. Launched in 200...

Geology Nasa Mars Rover

9.5 Brilliant

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Mir Space Station

Mir was a Soviet and later Russian space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 until its controlled atmosph...

Modular Long Duration Station 1986

9.5 Brilliant

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Apollo 17

The Apollo 17 mission represents NASA’s concluding journey to the Moon within the Apollo program. Launched in December 1...

Lunar Nasa Apollo Past

9.4 Excellent

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Viking 1

The Viking 1 mission involved both an orbiter and a lander deployed to Mars in 1975. It achieved the historic feat of de...

Nasa Mars Past Lander

9.4 Excellent

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Friendship 7 (Mercury-Atlas 6)

Friendship 7 was the spacecraft used in NASA's Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, launched on February 20, 1962. Aboard the capsul...

Orbital Nasa 1962 Crewed

9.4 Excellent

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COBE

The COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) mission, operated by NASA from 1989 to 1993, provided crucial data about the early...

Cosmology Nasa Microwave Observatory

9.2 Excellent

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IRAS

The Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) operated from 1983 to 1989. This joint US, UK, and Dutch space mission conducted...

Survey Historic Infrared Observatory

9.1 Excellent

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Yohkoh

Yohkoh, originally designated as the Solar-A mission, was a Japanese solar observation satellite launched in 1991. The s...

Solar Observatory Past X Ray

8.0 Great

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TRACE

TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer) was a NASA heliophysics satellite launched in 1998 to study the Sun's mag...

Solar Nasa Observatory Past

8.0 Great

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SWOT

SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) is a satellite jointly developed by NASA and CNES, the French space agency, wi...

Water Active Nasa Earth

7.9 Good

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Hisaki

Hisaki, also designated SPRINT-A, is a Japanese ultraviolet space telescope developed and operated by the Japan Aerospac...

Active Planetary Observatory Ultraviolet

6.9 Fair

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AGILE

AGILE is a high-energy astronomy satellite developed for the Italian Space Agency and launched in 2007. Its instruments...

High Energy Observatory Gamma Ray Asi

6.9 Fair