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49 missions

  1. Photo: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya / Public domain

    Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

    A Hubble-sized mirror with 200 times the view

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    NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center on the morning of 30 August 2026. It was sent towards the Sun-Earth L2 point, where the James Webb Space Telescope also sits.

    7 video perspectives

    3 more on the mission page

  2. 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.

    9 video perspectives

    5 more on the mission page

  3. Photo: NASA / Public domain

    ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101

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    1 video perspective

  4. 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.

    3 video perspectives

  5. Photo: NASA/Chris Cassidy / Public domain

    US Spacewalk 100

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    1 video perspective

  6. Photo: NASA / Public domain (US government work)

    Artemis II

    The first crew to fly Orion around the Moon

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    Artemis II launched from Kennedy Space Center on 1 April 2026 on NASA's Space Launch System, carrying Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency in the Orion capsule Integrity. The crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on 10 April, after a mission of 9 days, 1 hour and 32 minutes.

    5 video perspectives

    1 more on the mission page

  7. Photo: NASA / Steven Seipel / Public domain (US government work)

    Artemis I

    The uncrewed flight that tested Orion and SLS

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    Artemis I launched the Space Launch System and the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on 16 November 2022, the first flight of NASA's Artemis programme. Orion flew around the Moon on a long route and splashed down in the Pacific on 11 December 2022.

    1 video perspective

  8. Photo: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Southwest Research Institute / Public domain (US government work)

    New Horizons

    Nine and a half years to Pluto

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    NASA's New Horizons launched in January 2006 and flew past Pluto on 14 July 2015, returning the first close images of the dwarf planet and its moons. It then went on to the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth in 2019.

    2 video perspectives

  9. 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.

    3 video perspectives

  10. 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.

    3 video perspectives

  11. Photo: NASA / Public domain (US government work)

    Curiosity

    A car-sized rover lowered on cables to Gale Crater

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    NASA's Curiosity rover, carried by the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, landed in Gale Crater on 5 August 2012 (Pacific time) after a flight of about 36 weeks. It was the largest rover sent to Mars at the time, and it touched down by being lowered on cables from a rocket-powered descent stage, a manoeuvre called the sky crane.

    3 video perspectives

  12. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech / Public domain (US government work)

    Perseverance

    Landing in Jezero Crater to look for ancient life

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    NASA's Perseverance rover launched on an Atlas V on 30 July 2020 and landed in Jezero Crater, the bed of an ancient lake, on 18 February 2021. It carries a drill that collects rock cores in sample tubes, an instrument that makes oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, and the Ingenuity helicopter.

    5 video perspectives

    1 more on the mission page