space history

  • Parker Solar Probe

    NASA's Parker Solar Probe is studying the Sun’s atmosphere by being in it, the closest any spacecraft has ever ventured.
  • China's Chang'e-5

    returned lunar samples to Earth in 2020, and is on an extended mission testing an advanced lunar orbit.
  • the ESA-led Solar Orbiter

    mission is imaging the Sun and huge swaths of its corona up close for the first time.
  • NASA's Perseverance

    rover landed in February of 2021 and is searching for past life and collect samples for return to Earth.
  • China's Tianwen-1

    an orbiter and rover mission that arrived in February 2021 to study the planet.
  • juno

    Juno studies the planet's core to help us understand how planets and our solar system formed.
  • Danuri

    also known as the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, is South Korea's first Moon mission. It launched in August 2022.
  • NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft

    launched in July 2022 to explore the fuel-saving lunar orbit that the Gateway space station will use later this decade.