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19 missions

  1. Photo: NASA / Public domain

    International Space Station deorbit

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    • How the ISS Will Be Destroyed at Point Nemo in 2030

      The B1M explains how the International Space Station was built from Zarya in 1998 onward and why it is planned to be brought down in 2030 by a specially modified SpaceX Dragon, ending in the ocean…

      Published 26 Mar 2025

  2. Hera

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  3. Photo: NASA / Public domain

    Galileo

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  4. Photo: NASA Kennedy Space Center / NASA/John Kraus / Public domain

    Crew-12

    237 days on the International Space Station

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    Crew-12 was a NASA and SpaceX crew rotation mission: Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev spent 237 days in space, 235 of them docked to the International Space Station. Their Dragon Freedom capsule undocked on 7 October 2026 and splashed down off California the next day.

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  5. Artemis III

    A crewed rehearsal for the Moon, flown in Earth orbit

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    Artemis III is NASA's planned 14-day crewed flight in low Earth orbit, set for summer 2027, in which an Orion crew of four will dock with test versions of the Blue Origin and SpaceX lunar landers. It replaced the original plan to land on the Moon, and NASA now aims to put astronauts on the surface with Artemis IV in 2028.

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  6. Photo: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute / Public domain (US government work)

    Cassini

    Thirteen years around Saturn and a planned end

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    Cassini reached Saturn in 2004, carried the Huygens probe to a landing on Titan, and studied the planet, its rings and its moons for 13 years. On 15 September 2017 NASA ended the mission by flying the spacecraft into Saturn after 22 dives between the planet and its rings.

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  7. Photo: NASA Hubble Space Telescope / Public domain (US government work)

    Hubble Space Telescope

    The telescope that was fixed in orbit

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    The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the shuttle Discovery on 24 April 1990 and found to have a flawed main mirror within weeks. Astronauts repaired it in orbit in 1993, and over four more servicing missions turned it into one of the most productive observatories in the history of astronomy.

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