List of NASA missions
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This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions.[1]
X-Plane program
[edit]Since 1945, NACA (NASA's predecessor) and, since January 26, 1958, NASA has conducted the X-Plane Program. The program was originally intended to create a family of experimental aircraft not intended for production beyond the limited number of each design built solely for flight research.[2] The first X-Plane, the Bell X-1, was the first rocket-powered airplane to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947.[3] X-Planes have set numerous milestones since then, both crewed and unpiloted.[4]
Human spaceflight
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NASA has successfully launched over 200 crewed flights.
| Program | Start date | First crewed flight | End date | No. of crewed missions launched |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury program | 1958 | 1961 | 1963 | 6 | First U.S. crewed program |
| Gemini program | 1961 | 1965 | 1966 | 10 | Program used to practice space rendezvous and EVAs |
| Apollo program | 1960 | 1968 | 1972 | 11[a] | Landed first humans on the Moon |
| Skylab | 1964 | 1973 | 1974 | 3 | First American space station |
| Apollo–Soyuz Test Project | 1971 | 1975 | 1975 | 1 | Joint with Soviet Union |
| Space Shuttle program | 1972 | 1981 | 2011 | 135[b] | First missions in which a spacecraft was reused |
| International Space Station | 1993 | 1998 | Ongoing | 65 | Joint with Roscosmos, CSA, ESA, and JAXA; Americans flew on Russian Soyuz after 2011 retirement of Space Shuttle |
presidents.[5]
See also
[edit]- NASA:
- Large strategic science missions, the NASA flagship missions
- Discovery Program, medium-cost NASA missions
- New Frontiers program, medium-large NASA missions to outer planets
- When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions – 2008 documentary covering NASA's mission history.
- Space exploration
- Timeline of Solar System exploration
- List of European Space Agency programmes and missions
References
[edit]- ^ "NASA Science Missions | Science Mission Directorate". Archived from the original on October 7, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
- ^ "Dryden Historic Aircraft - X-planes overview". Dryden Flight Research Center. NASA. Archived from the original on March 3, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
- ^ "Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis"". Milestones of Flight. National Air and Space Museum. Archived from the original on December 27, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
- ^ "APPENDIX A; HISTORY OF THE X-PLANE PROGRAM". Draft X-33 Environmental Impact Statement. NASA. Archived from the original on December 25, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
- ^ Wall, Mike (January 20, 2017). "President Obama's Space Legacy: Mars, Private Spaceflight and More". Space.com. Archived from the original on April 6, 2018. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
Bibliography
[edit]- Grush, Loren (May 17, 2019). "NASA administrator on new Moon plan: 'We're doing this in a way that's never been done before'". The Verge. Retrieved January 13, 2023.
- Heaton, Andrew; Sood, Dr. Rohan (August 10, 2020). "Space Launch System Departure Trajectory Analysis for Cislunar and Deep-Space Exploration" (PDF). NASA. p. 7. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
