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Cassini−Huygens
Cassini–Huygens ( ), commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites. The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA's Cassini space probe and ESA's Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Cassini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it stayed from 2004 to 2017. The two craft took their names from the astronomers Giovanni Cassin
Artemis II
Artemis II was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program and the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis II was the second flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity by the four-person crew.
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system. The crew, supported by backup systems on the Apollo Lunar Module, instead looped around the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory and returned safely to Earth on April 17. The mission was commanded by Jim Lovell, with Jack Swigert as command module (CM) pilot and Fred Haise as Lunar Module (LM) pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for Ken Mattingly, who was grounded after exposure to rubella.
Luna 3
lunar probe, first-ever mission to photograph the far side of the Moon
Pioneer 4
U.S. space probe which performed a lunar flyby
Ranger 5
US unmanned spaceprobe
Zond 5
Soviet spacecraft
Pioneer 3
U.S. space probe lost due to a launch failure
Zond 3
1965 Soviet moon probe
dearMoon project
cancelled SpaceX lunar tourism mission
Zond 8
uncrewed version of Soyuz 7K-L1
Zond 7
1969 Soviet test spaceflight to the Moon
Zond 6
formal member of the Soviet Zond program
Galileo
NASA robotic space probe that studied the Jupiter system, as well as asteroids Gaspra and Ida