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Explorer 1

Explorer 1 was the first artificial satellite successfully placed in Earth orbit by the United States. Launched in 1958,...

Cold War Satellite Nasa Earth Orbit

9.2 Excellent

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Mercury Friendship 7

The Mercury Friendship 7 was a single-seat capsule designed for crewed orbital missions during the Cold War. It carried...

Cold War Nasa First Us Orbit Crewed

9.2 Excellent

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Apollo Command/Service Module

The Apollo Command/Service Module was a critical component of NASA’s manned lunar missions during the Cold War era. It c...

Cold War Nasa Moon Crewed

9.2 Excellent

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Apollo Lunar Module

The Apollo Lunar Module was a specialized spacecraft developed by NASA to enable crewed landings on the Moon. This two-s...

Cold War Nasa Moon Crewed

9.2 Excellent

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Opportunity rover

The Opportunity rover was a NASA spacecraft designed to explore the Martian surface. Launched in 2004 as part of the Mar...

Endurance Nasa Mars Rover

9.2 Excellent

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Curiosity rover

The Curiosity rover is a NASA spacecraft exploring Mars. Launched in November 2011, it landed in Gale Crater in August 2...

Nasa Mars Rover Current

9.2 Excellent

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Ingenuity helicopter

The Ingenuity helicopter is a rotorcraft developed by NASA for exploration on Mars. It represents a groundbreaking achie...

Helicopter Nasa Mars First Flight

9.2 Excellent

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Huygens probe

The Huygens probe was an ESA-designed lander carried by the Cassini spacecraft. It achieved a historic touchdown on Tita...

Science Titan Lander Atmosphere

9.2 Excellent

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Perseverance rover

The Perseverance rover is an American spacecraft exploring Mars. It’s currently operating within Jezero Crater, searchin...

Nasa Mars Rover Astrobiology

9.1 Excellent

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Mars Odyssey

NASA orbiter launched in 2001 that became the longest-operating spacecraft at Mars, and detected hydrogen deposits sugge...

Nasa Mars Current Orbiter

8.6 Great

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ISEE-3 / ICE

NASA spacecraft launched in 1978 as the first stationed at a Sun-Earth Lagrange point; repurposed as ICE, it flew throug...

Science Nasa Comet Probe

8.5 Great

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ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer)

NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer, launched in 1997 to the L1 Lagrange point, samples solar wind particles and measur...

Science Nasa Solar Wind L1

8.2 Great

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GRAIL Ebb

One of NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft launched in 2011 to map the Moon's gravitational field in finer detail than any prev...

Science Nasa Gravity Moon

8.1 Great

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GRAIL Flow

The second of NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft that together with Ebb produced the highest-resolution gravitational map of t...

Science Nasa Gravity Moon

8.1 Great

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STEREO-A

One of two NASA spacecraft launched in 2006 to provide the first stereoscopic views of the Sun and solar phenomena from...

Science Nasa Sun Probe

8.1 Great

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Wind spacecraft

A NASA spacecraft launched in 1994 and stationed near the L1 Lagrange point to study solar wind properties and their int...

Science Nasa Solar Wind L1

8.1 Great

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OAO-2

NASA Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, launched in 1968, the first successful space-based ultraviolet telescope, prov...

Cold War Science Nasa Observatory

7.8 Good

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Psyche spacecraft

NASA spacecraft launched in October 2023 en route to 16 Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid in the main belt thought to be a r...

Science Nasa Current Orbiter

7.3 Good

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Mars Observer

NASA's Mars Observer orbiter, launched in 1992, lost contact three days before its planned orbital insertion in 1993, re...

1990S Nasa Mars Orbiter

3.4 Poor

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CONTOUR

NASA Comet Nucleus Tour spacecraft launched in 2002 that was lost shortly after its departure burn from Earth orbit due...

Science Nasa Comet Probe

3.1 Poor