Space Missions

Missions with science goals to study planets moons asteroids and comets beyond earth orbit.
Space missions. Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. This section focuses on u s. First american space station apollo soyuz test project. Space exploration like its classical form astronomy is one of the main sources for space science.
Our most comprehensive look at the planet came from nasa and the european space agency s cassini huygens mission which spent 13 years exploring saturn and its moons. In addition to commercial satellite launches and space station resupply missions lc 39a supports crew launches of the dragon spacecraft. June 13 2012 the nuclear spectroscopic telescope array or nustar mission will study the universe in high energy x rays to better understand the dynamics of black holes exploding stars and the most extreme active galaxies. Artemis program human spaceflight moon to mars artemis and themis science missions.
Your guide to saturn saturn is the crown jewel of our solar system. The neowise mission uses a space telescope to hunt for asteroids and comets including those that could pose a threat to earth. 1972 1981 2011 134. First missions in which a spacecraft was reused shuttle mir program.
Sts 51 l was the tenth mission to be conducted on the challenger. 1971 1975 1975 1 joint with soviet union. Missions more than 250 robotic spacecraft and 24 humans have ventured into space since we first began exploring beyond earth s atmosphere in 1958. The 25th mission of the united states space shuttle program launched on january 28 1986 and tragically ended in just 73 seconds.
1960 1968 1972 11. Missions to translunar space will give nasa and its partners the opportunity to develop tools and operational techniques to support decades of future exploration while remaining in relative proximity to earth. 1964 1973 1974 3. While the exploration of space is carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes its physical exploration though is conducted both by unmanned robotic space probes and human spaceflight.