List of NASA missions

List of NASA missions
Piloted Mercury launches
All Gemini Launches from GT-1 through GT-12.
All Saturn IB launches from AS-201 through ASTP
All Saturn V launches, 1967–1973.
Shuttle launch profiles. From left to right: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. (135 orbital missions between them)

This is a list of NASA missions, both manned and unmanned, since its establishment in 1958.

Contents

Human spaceflight

NASA has successfully launched over 100 manned flights. Three have ended in failure, causing the death of the crew, such as Apollo 1 in 1967, STS-51-L (the Challenger disaster) in 1986, and STS-107 (the Columbia disaster) in 2003:

Program Start Date End Date No. of launched
crewed missions
Notes
Mercury program 1959 1963 6 First U.S. crewed program
Gemini program 1963 1966 10 Program used to practice space rendezvous and EVAs
Apollo program 1961 1972 11[1] Brought first human to the Moon
Skylab 1973 1974 3 The crewed missions only took place in 1973 and 1974; first American space station
Apollo-Soyuz 1975 1975 1 Joint with Soviet Union
Space Shuttle 1981 2011 135 First missions in which a spacecraft was reused
Shuttle-Mir Program 1995 1998 9[2] Russian partnership
International Space Station 1998 On-going 19[3] Joint with Russia, Canada, ESA, and JAXA along with co-operators, ASI and AEB
Project Constellation Cancelled Cancelled[1] 0 Future program to once again bring humans to the Moon, Mars and beyond
  • ^ Apollo 1 was unlaunched due to a fire during testing that killed the astronauts, and is not counted here
  • ^ The Shuttle-Mir missions were all Space Shuttle missions, and are also counted under the Space Shuttle program missions in the table.
  • ^ The missions (International Space Station) counted here are only the NASA Space Shuttle missions, and are also counted under the Space Shuttle program missions in the table.

Future

On May 7, 2009 the Obama Administration announced the launch of an independent review of planned U.S. human space flight activities with the goal of ensuring that the nation is on a vigorous and sustainable path to achieving its boldest aspirations in space. The review will be conducted by a blue-ribbon panel of experts led by Norman Augustine, the former CEO of Lockheed Martin, who served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology under Democrat and Republican presidents.

The "Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans" is to examine ongoing and planned National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) development activities, as well as potential alternatives, and present options for advancing a safe, innovative, affordable, and sustainable human space flight program in the years following Space Shuttle retirement. The panel will work closely with NASA and will seek input from the United States Congress, the White House, the public, industry, and international partners as it develops its options. It is to present its results in time to support an Administration decision on the way forward by August 2009.[2]

In February 2010, Obama announced he proposes to cancel the Constellation Program as part of the 2011 Economic Projects to goal the USA to be booming by 2020. Constellation was officially cancelled by the NASA Budget Authorization Act on 11 October 2010.

Unmanned missions

Lunar missions

Mars missions

Asteroidal/cometary missions

Interplanetary missions

Sun observing missions

Earth satellites

Earth Observing System

[5]

Landsat

[7]

Great Observatories program

Planned missions

Cancelled missions

See also

References


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