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Derelict landers (spacecraft)
- Viking programThe Viking program began its life in 1968 when NASA Langley Research Center took charge of the effort. This initiative grew from an earlier, even more…
- Venera 9The Soviet Union launched Venera 9 on the 8th of June 1975 at 02:38:00 UTC. This uncrewed spacecraft weighed a specific amount and carried two distinct…
- NEAR ShoemakerJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in the mid-1990s. This robotic probe was designed to study asteroid…
- Venera 4Venera 4 arrived at Venus on the 18th of October 1967, carrying a question humanity had never been able to answer: what is it actually like inside the…
- Surveyor programIn 1960, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory began work on a new robotic program to prepare for human lunar landings. The agency selected Hughes Aircraft…
- Viking 1The Titan/Centaur rocket lifted off from Earth on the 20th of August 1975. This launch vehicle carried the Viking 1 spacecraft toward its distant target.
- Surveyor 1Surveyor 1 touched down on the Ocean of Storms on the 2nd of June 1966. This event marked the first successful soft landing by an American space probe on any…
- Philae (spacecraft)The European Space Agency launched the Philae lander from French Guiana on the 2nd of March 2004 at 07:17 UTC. This Ariane 5G+ rocket carried both the…
- Venera 13Venera 13 touched down on Venus on the 1st of March 1982, and then it did something no spacecraft had ever done before: it listened.
- Venera 7Venera 7 struck the surface of Venus on the 15th of December 1970, traveling at about 16.5 meters per second, and by all appearances it went silent on impact.