The most important space missions in history
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Apollo 11 · Sputnik 1 · Vostok 1. (Updated Jan 31, 2024.)
The missions that marked the conquest of space, from the first satellite to the probes that left the Solar System, as cited by every timeline of space exploration.
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Top 15
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Apollo 11
20 July 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon.
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Sputnik 1
4 October 1957: the first artificial satellite, launched by the USSR.
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Vostok 1
12 April 1961: Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
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Voyager 1 and 2
Launched in 1977; Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to reach interstellar space, in 2012.
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Hubble Space Telescope
Put into orbit in 1990, it revolutionised astronomy.
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Sputnik 2
3 November 1957: the dog Laika, the first living creature in orbit.
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Apollo 8
December 1968: the first humans to orbit the Moon.
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International Space Station
Assembled from 1998, continuously crewed since November 2000.
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Luna 9
1966: the first soft landing on the Moon.
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Viking 1
1976: the first successful Mars landing with images from the surface.
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Venera 7
1970: the first successful landing on another planet, Venus.
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Cassini-Huygens
Reached Saturn in 2004; Huygens landed on Titan in 2005.
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Rosetta and Philae
2014: the first landing on a comet, Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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New Horizons
July 2015: the first flyby of Pluto.
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Curiosity
Rover that landed on Mars in 2012.
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Mars Pathfinder
1997: Sojourner, the first rover on Mars.
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Chang'e 4
January 2019: the first landing on the far side of the Moon.
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Pioneer 10
Launched in 1972, the first probe to cross the asteroid belt and fly past Jupiter.
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