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Loading contentEvery mission, spacecraft, launch vehicle, agency, astronaut, and instrument as a first-class knowledge-graph entity — 65 missions across 178 interconnected records, from Sputnik to the James Webb Space Telescope.
16 space agencies · 23 mission programs · 20 launch vehicles · 15 launch sites · 65 space missions · 10 spacecraft · 19 astronauts · 10 scientific instruments
| Mission | Type | Agency | Launch | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viking 1Mars | Orbiter and lander | NASA | 1975-08-20 | Completed |
| Voyager 2Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | Grand tour and interstellar | NASA | 1977-08-20 | Active |
| Voyager 1Jupiter, Saturn, interstellar space | Flyby and interstellar | NASA | 1977-09-05 | Active |
| MagellanVenus | Orbiter | NASA | 1989-05-04 | Completed |
| GalileoJupiter | Orbiter and atmospheric probe | NASA | 1989-10-18 | Completed |
| Hubble Space TelescopeLow Earth orbit | Space telescope | NASA | 1990-04-24 | Active |
| Cassini–HuygensSaturn | Orbiter and lander | NASA | 1997-10-15 | Completed |
| HayabusaAsteroid Itokawa | Sample return | JAXA | 2003-05-09 | Completed |
| Mars ExpressMars | Orbiter | ESA | 2003-06-02 | Active |
| Opportunity (MER-B)Mars | Rover | NASA | 2003-07-07 | Completed |
Every space mission in the encyclopedia, by launch date.
Crewed missions, from the first flights to the Moon landings.
Missions that have explored Earth's Moon.
Orbiters, landers, and rovers that have explored Mars.
Spacecraft that have explored Jupiter and its moons.
Missions to Saturn, its rings, and its moons.
Spacecraft that study the Sun up close.
Missions to the outer planets, dwarf planets, and beyond.
Missions that entered orbit around another world.
Missions that touched down on another world.
Robotic rovers that have driven across other worlds.
Missions that brought pieces of other worlds back to Earth.
The pioneering missions of the early Space Age (pre-1980).
The great programs of human and robotic exploration.
The rockets that carry missions to space.
The spaceports of the world.
National and intergovernmental space agencies and providers.
The people who have flown into space.
The rovers, landers, and probes that do the exploring.
The cameras, spectrometers, and sensors that gather the data.
The exploration encyclopedia is curated from authoritative public sources — NASA, ESA, JPL, and the world's national space agencies. Mission histories, launch dates, and discoveries are well-established public facts; uncertain values are omitted rather than invented. See the source quality page.