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Venera 13
First spacecraft to successfully land on Venus and transmit images from the surface.
Mariner 4
First successful flyby and examination of Mars.
Voyager 1
First spacecraft to reach interstellar space.
Spirit and Opportunity
Twin rovers that explored the Martian surface and geology.
Viking 1
First successful Mars lander and provided the first high-resolution images of the Martian surface.
Sputnik 1
First artificial Earth satellite.
Juno
Mission to study Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere.
James Webb Space Telescope
Advanced space telescope designed to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as the premier space observatory.
Hubble Space Telescope
First major optical telescope placed in space.
MESSENGER
First spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Space telescope launched by NASA to detect X-ray emissions from very hot regions of the universe.
Curiosity Rover
Mars rover designed to explore the Gale crater as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Galileo
Mission to study the planet Jupiter and its moons.
Apollo 11
First manned mission to land on the Moon in 1969.
New Horizons
First spacecraft to conduct a flyby of Pluto.
Kepler Space Telescope
Space telescope designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.
Cassini-Huygens
Mission to Saturn and its largest moon, Titan.
Mars Pathfinder
Landmark mission featuring a lander and a lightweight rover (Sojourner) on the surface of Mars.
Pioneer 10
First spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt and make direct observations of Jupiter.
Rosetta
First spacecraft to orbit a comet (67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko) and deploy a lander to its surface.
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