Successful space missions

Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon, and the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program. The mission was crewed by Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, all of whom were on their second and final spaceflight.

first artificial Earth satellite

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.

second crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

Chandrayaan-3 ( ) is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by ISRO. The mission consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019.

Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on the Moon; he was selected in place of Joe Engle, as NASA had been under pressure to send a scientist to the Moon. The mission's heavy emphasis on science meant the inclusion of a number of new experiments, including a biological experiment containing five mice that was carried in the command and service module.

Soviet artificial satellite that took the dog Laika to the space

second crewed Moon landing

first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon

third Moon landing and eighth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

Artemis I, formerly Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission. As the first major spaceflight of NASA's Artemis program, Artemis I marked the agency's return to lunar exploration after the conclusion of the Apollo program nearly five decades earlier. It was the first integrated flight test of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and its main objective was to test the Orion spacecraft, especially its heat shield, in preparation for subsequent Artemis missions. These missions seek to reestablish a human presence on the Moon and demonstrate technologies and business approaches needed for future scientific studies, including exploration of Mars.

fourth Moon landing and ninth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

fourth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

first crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

fifth Moon landing and tenth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

third crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

lunar probe, first-ever mission to photograph the far side of the Moon

uncrewed test flight of the United States Apollo program

uncrewed test flight of the United States Apollo program

crewed demonstration flight operated by SpaceX on behalf of NASA

space probe

space probe

second crewed space flight in NASA's Project Gemini

human spaceflight

1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program

1965 American crewed space mission

Soviet lunar rover; first rover to operate on the Moon

NASA Commercial Crew Program mission to the International Space Station

1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program

1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini

1965 crewed United States spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program

ninth crewed spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini

crewed flight of the Soyuz programme

first crewed mission of the Skylab program

second crewed mission of the Skylab program

NASA Commercial Crew Program mission to the International Space Station

third crewed mission of the Skylab program

AS-203 (also known as SA-203 or Apollo 3) was an uncrewed flight of the Saturn IB rocket on July 5, 1966. It carried no command and service module, as its purpose was to verify the design of the S-IVB rocket stage restart capability that would later be used in the Apollo program to boost astronauts from Earth orbit to a trajectory towards the Moon. It achieved its objectives, but the S-IVB was inadvertently destroyed after four orbits during a differential pressure test that exceeded the design limits.

demonstration flight of the Dragon 2

first uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft

Soviet spacecraft

private crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station in 2024

1969 Soviet test spaceflight to the Moon

post-launch abort test of the Dragon 2 spacecraft