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Chandrayaan-1
Launch Date: October 22, 2008 Mission Objective: Mapping and exploration of the Moon's surface
GSLV Mk III - Chandrayaan-2
Launch Date: July 22, 2019 Mission Objective: Second Indian lunar exploration mission including an orbiter, lander, and rover
Voyager 1
Launch Date: September 5, 1977 Mission Objective: To study the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere
New Horizons
Launch Date: January 19, 2006 Mission Objective: Flyby and study of Pluto and its moons, then further into the Kuiper Belt
Apollo 13
Launch Date: April 11, 1970 Mission Objective: Third intended manned Moon landing (mission aborted)
Saturn V - Apollo 11
Launch Date: July 16, 1969 Mission Objective: First manned Moon landing
Falcon 1 - Flight 4
Launch Date: September 28, 2008 Mission Objective: First privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit
Curiosity Rover
Launch Date: November 26, 2011 Mission Objective: Mars Science Laboratory mission to explore the Martian surface
Pioneer 10
Launch Date: March 2, 1972 Mission Objective: First spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt and make direct observations of Jupiter
Space Shuttle Columbia
Launch Date: April 12, 1981 Mission Objective: First space shuttle mission (STS-1)
Cassini–Huygens
Launch Date: October 15, 1997 Mission Objective: Study Saturn and its moons, including landing on Titan
MESSENGER
Launch Date: August 3, 2004 Mission Objective: First spacecraft to orbit Mercury
Rosetta
Launch Date: March 2, 2004 Mission Objective: Perform a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Vostok 1
Launch Date: April 12, 1961 Mission Objective: First human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin)
Sputnik 1
Launch Date: October 4, 1957 Mission Objective: First artificial Earth satellite
Hubble Space Telescope
Launch Date: April 24, 1990 Mission Objective: Deploy the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit
Juno
Launch Date: August 5, 2011 Mission Objective: To study Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere
Falcon Heavy Demo Flight
Launch Date: February 6, 2018 Mission Objective: Demonstrate heavy-lift capabilities with a Tesla Roadster as payload
Mars Pathfinder
Launch Date: December 4, 1996 Mission Objective: Demonstrate a low-cost method for delivering a set of science instruments to the Red Planet
Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7)
Launch Date: May 5, 1961 Mission Objective: First American in space (Alan Shepard)
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