swap_horiz Philae lander Alternatives

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Sputnik 1

A polished metal sphere fitted with radio transmitters and projecting antennas, Sputnik 1 became the world's first artif...

Cold War Satellite Soviet First

9.20 Excellent

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Explorer 1

Explorer 1 became the first United States satellite successfully placed in Earth orbit in 1958. Built by the Jet Propuls...

Cold War Satellite Nasa Earth Orbit

9.20 Excellent

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Telstar 1

Developed by AT&T's Bell Laboratories and launched by NASA in 1962, Telstar 1 was an early American communications satel...

Cold War Att Satellite Communications

9.20 Excellent

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Vostok 6

Vostok 6 carried Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova into Earth orbit on June 16, 1963, making her the first woman to...

Cold War Soviet First Woman Crewed

9.20 Excellent

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Mercury Friendship 7

Friendship 7 was the single-seat Mercury capsule that carried John Glenn on February 20, 1962. During the Mercury-Atlas...

Cold War Nasa First Us Orbit Crewed

9.20 Excellent

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Apollo Command/Service Module

NASA's Apollo Command/Service Module provided the main crewed spacecraft for travel to and from the Moon during the Cold...

Cold War Nasa Moon Crewed

9.20 Excellent

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Apollo Lunar Module

Built by Grumman for NASA's Apollo program, the Lunar Module was a specialized spacecraft for landing astronauts on the...

Cold War Nasa Moon Crewed

9.20 Excellent

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Curiosity rover

Launched in November 2011 and landed in Gale Crater in August 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover investigates whether ancient...

Nasa Mars Rover Current

9.20 Excellent

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Cassini

The Cassini spacecraft was a joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. It provided unprecedented...

Science Flagship Nasa Saturn

9.20 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

9.20 Excellent

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ISEE-3 / ICE

ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer 3) was a NASA spacecraft launched on August 12, 1978, originally placed in a ha...

Science Nasa Comet Probe

8.45 Great

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Phoenix lander

Phoenix was a NASA Mars lander, part of the agency's Scout program, that touched down on May 25, 2008, in the Martian ar...

Polar Nasa Mars Lander

8.25 Great

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ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle)

The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) was an uncrewed cargo spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) to re...

European Cargo Esa Iss

8.05 Great

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ERS-2

ERS-2 (European Remote-Sensing Satellite 2) was an Earth observation satellite operated by the European Space Agency. La...

Satellite Radar Completed Esa

7.80 Good

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ERS-1

ERS-1, or European Remote-Sensing Satellite 1, was the first Earth observation satellite developed by the European Space...

Cold War Satellite Radar Esa

7.75 Good

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Firefly Blue Ghost

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost is a robotic lunar lander developed under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)...

Commercial 2025 Moon Lander

7.60 Good

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Intuitive Machines IM-1 (Nova-C)

The Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission utilized the Nova-C class lunar lander, named Odysseus, to successfully soft-land on...

Commercial 2024 Moon Lander

7.10 Good

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Beagle 2

Beagle 2 was a British Mars lander carried by the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission, launched in 2003. It was...

UK Mars Lander Esa

4.25 Poor

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Luna 25

Luna 25 was a Russian lunar lander launched by Roscosmos from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on 10 August 2023, Russia's first...

Russian Modern Moon Lander

3.20 Poor

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CONTOUR

CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) was a NASA Discovery-program spacecraft launched on a Delta II rocket in July 2002 to make...

Science Nasa Comet Probe

3.10 Poor