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Apollo 11
1969, NASA, First manned moon landing
Voyager 1
1977, NASA, Farthest spacecraft from Earth, First to enter interstellar space
Hubble Space Telescope
1990, NASA/ESA, Revolutionized astronomy with deep space images
Mars Pathfinder
1996, NASA, Delivered the Sojourner rover to Mars
Cassini-Huygens
1997, NASA/ESA/ASI, Explored Saturn and its moons
Chandra X-ray Observatory
1999, NASA, Studies the universe in X-ray wavelengths
Spirit and Opportunity
2004, NASA, Mars rovers that far outlived their planned missions
New Horizons
2006, NASA, First mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
Kepler Space Telescope
2009, NASA, Discovering Earth-size exoplanets in the habitable zone
Curiosity Rover
2011, NASA, Advanced Mars rover studying Martian geology and climate
Rosetta
2004, ESA, First spacecraft to orbit a comet and deploy a lander
Juno
2011, NASA, Studying Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere
Voyager 2
1977, NASA, Only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune
Pioneer 10
1972, NASA, First spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt and make direct observations of Jupiter
Galileo
1989, NASA, Studied Jupiter and its moons extensively
Pioneer 11
1973, NASA, First mission to encounter Saturn and the second to fly through the asteroid belt
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
2005, NASA, High-resolution imaging of Mars' surface
MESSENGER
2004, NASA, First spacecraft to orbit Mercury
Venera 13
1981, Soviet Union, First spacecraft to return color images from the surface of Venus and conduct soil analysis
Parker Solar Probe
2018, NASA, Closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object
James Webb Space Telescope
2021, NASA/ESA/CSA, Next-generation space telescope to study the early universe
Hayabusa2
2014, JAXA, Sample-return mission from an asteroid
Artemis I
Planned, NASA, Uncrewed test flight for NASA's Artemis lunar program
OSIRIS-REx
2016, NASA, Sample-return mission from the asteroid Bennu
InSight
2018, NASA, Studies the interior of Mars
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