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Was the first artificial satellite successfully placed in orbit around the Earth. It was the first to be launched into a low altitude.
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The Jupiter-C launch vehicle consisted of four propulsive stages. The first stage was an upgraded Redstone liquid-fueled rocket.
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Freedom 7 spacecraft, Mercury capsule #7, was delivered to Cape Canaveral on December 9, 1960. It had originally been expected that a mission could be launched soon after the spacecraft was available.
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Was the first manned mission in Nasa’s Gemini program, the second American manned space program.
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Was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
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Is a 722-kilogram space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System.
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Was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA’s orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first space program.
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Is American spacecraft that landed a base station with a rowing probe on Mars in 1997.
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Is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. It is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998.
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Is an ongoing robotic space-mission involving two rovers.
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Is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.
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Is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory.
