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Successful space missions
- AS-203On the 5th of July 1966, an uncrewed Saturn IB rocket lifted off from Cape Kennedy. This flight carried no command and service module.
- Apollo 11Apollo 11, launched on the 16th of July 1969, carried three astronauts toward a destination no human being had ever reached.
- Apollo 12Apollo 12 launched into a sky that had no business sending anyone to the Moon. On the 14th of November 1969, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rain fell…
- Apollo 7Apollo 7 launched on the 11th of October, 1968, the first American spacecraft to carry a crew in nearly two years. The men inside were not breaking new…
- Apollo 17Apollo 17 launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on the 7th of December 1972, blazing into the night sky above Florida.
- Apollo 15Apollo 15 launched on the 26th of July 1971, and from the moment it left the ground, it was a different kind of Moon mission.
- Apollo 14Apollo 14 launched on the 31st of January 1971, carrying three astronauts on a mission that no one in the program could afford to lose.
- Apollo 8On the 4th of October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. This small metal sphere changed everything for the United States.
- Apollo 10Apollo 10 came within 7.8 nautical miles of the Moon's surface in May 1969 and then turned back. The crew had a working spacecraft, they had the training…
- Apollo 16Apollo 16 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the 16th of April, 1972, carrying three men toward a highland plain that scientists were certain…
- Apollo 4Apollo 4 announced itself with a sound that one Columbia University scientist described as one of the loudest noises, natural or artificial, in all of human…
- Apollo 9Apollo 9 launched on the 3rd of March 1969, carrying three men into low Earth orbit aboard the first complete Apollo spacecraft ever flown.
- Apollo 5Apollo 5, launched on the 22nd of January 1968, sent a spacecraft to orbit with no crew aboard and no windows visible through its hull.
- Sputnik 1Sputnik 1, a polished metal sphere barely 58 centimetres across, crossed the sky on the 4th of October 1957 and changed everything.
- Sputnik 2Sputnik 2 lifted off at 02:30:42 UTC on the 3rd of November 1957, carrying something no spacecraft had ever carried before: a living creature.
- Crew Dragon Demo-2NASA paid up to 80 million dollars for each astronaut seat on the Russian Soyuz vehicle after retiring its Space Shuttle fleet in 2011.
- Luna 2Luna 2 became the first human-made object to touch another world on the 14th of September 1959. A Soviet spacecraft, launched less than two days earlier…
- Chandrayaan-3On the 23rd of August 2023, a box-shaped lander named Vikram touched down near the lunar south pole at 18:04 IST. This moment marked India's first soft…