List of NASA missions. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions.

X-Plane program

Since 1945, NACA (NASA's predecessor) and, since January 26, 1958, NASA has conducted the X-Plane Program.  The program was originally intended to create a family of experimental aircraft not intended for production beyond the limited number of each design built solely for flight research. The first X-Plane, the Bell X-1, was the first rocket-powered airplane to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947. X-Planes have set numerous milestones since then, both crewed and unpiloted.

Human spaceflight

NASA has successfully launched over 200 crewed flights. Three have ended in failure, causing the death of the entire crew: Apollo 1 (which never launched) in 1967 lost three crew members, STS-51-L (the Challenger disaster) in 1986, and STS-107 (the Columbia disaster) in 2003.

Notes:

Early Obama administration review

In May 2009, the Obama administration announced the launch of an independent review of planned U.S. human space flight activities with the goal of ensuring that the nation is on a vigorous and sustainable path to achieving its boldest aspirations in space. The review was conducted by a panel of experts led by Norman Augustine, the former CEO of Lockheed Martin, who served on the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology under both Democrat and Republican presidents.

The "Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans" was to examine ongoing and planned National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) development activities, as well as potential alternatives and present options for advancing a safe, innovative, affordable, and sustainable human space flight program in the years following Space Shuttle retirement. The panel worked closely with NASA and sought input from the United States Congress, the White House, the public, industry, and international partners as it developed its options. It presented its results on October 22, 2009.

In February 2010, Obama announced his proposal to cancel the Constellation program as part of his reform program. Constellation was officially canceled by the NASA Budget Authorization Act on October 11, 2010.

Future

NASA brought the Orion spacecraft back to life from the defunct Constellation program and successfully test-launched the first capsule on December 5, 2014, aboard EFT-1.  After a near-perfect flight traveling  above Earth, the spacecraft was recovered for study.  NASA plans to use the Orion crew vehicle to send humans to deep space locations such as the Moon and Mars starting in the 2020s.  Orion will be powered by NASA's new heavy-lift vehicle, the Space Launch System (SLS), which is currently under development.

Artemis I was the first flight of the SLS and was launched as a test of the completed Orion and SLS system. During the mission, an uncrewed Orion capsule spent 10 days in a distant retrograde  orbit around the Moon before returning to Earth. Artemis II, the first crewed mission of the program, will launch four astronauts in 2025 on a free-return flyby of the Moon at a distance of .

After Artemis II, the Power and Propulsion Element of the Lunar Gateway and three components of an expendable lunar lander are planned to be delivered on multiple launches from commercial launch service providers.

Artemis III is planned to launch in 2026 aboard an SLS Block 1 rocket and will use the minimalist Gateway and expendable lander to achieve the first crewed lunar landing of the program. The flight is planned to touch down on the lunar south pole region, with two astronauts staying there for about one week.

Robotic missions

Suborbital
 Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) – five consecutive launches, 80 seconds apart on March 27, 2012, studied the high-altitude jet stream.
 NASA Sounding Rocket Program
 SHIELDS – launched April 19, 2021, collected data from the heliopause.

Earth and Heliocentric satellites

 Biosatellite program
 Biosatellite 1, launched December 1966, 
 Biosatellite 2, launched September 1967, 
 Biosatellite 3, launched June 1969, 
 Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), launched November 1989, 
 Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), launched September 1991, 
 Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), launched March 2002, 
 Gravity Recover and Climate Experiment - Follow-On (GRACE-FO), launched May 2018, 
 NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) – National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), launched October 2011, 
 Echo 1 and 2, launched August 1960 and January 1964, respectively, 
 Great Observatories
 Hubble Space Telescope, launched April 1990, 
 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, launched April 1991, 
 Chandra X-ray Observatory, launched July 1999, 
 Spitzer Space Telescope, launched August 2003, 
 High Energy Astronomy Observatory program
 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 (HEAO 1), launched August 1977, 
 Einstein Observatory (HEAO 2) launched November 1978,  – first fully imaging X-ray telescope
 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 3 (HEAO 3), launched September 1979, 
 Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE), launched March 2000, 
 Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), launched January 1983, 
 Jason-1, launched December 2001, 
 OSTM/Jason-2, launched June 2008, 
 Jason-3, launched January 2016, 
 Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (SWIFT), launched November 2004, 
 Landsat program
Landsat 1, launched July 1972, 
Landsat 2, launched January 1975, 
Landsat 3, launched March 1978, 
Landsat 4, launched July 1982, 
Landsat 5, launched March 1984, 
Landsat 6, launched October 1993, 
Landsat 7, launched April 1999, 
Landsat 8, launched February 2013, 
Landsat 9, launched September 2021, 
 Living With a Star
Van Allen Probes, launched August 2012,  – Twin probes studying the Van Allen radiation belt
 Earth Observing System
 Terra, launched December 1999, 
 Aqua, launched May 2002, 
 Aura, launched July 2004, 
 New Millennium Program (NMP)
 Earth Observing-1 (EO-1), launched November 2000, 
 Space Technology 5 (ST5), launched March 2006, 
 Space Technology 6 (ST6)
 NanoSail-D, launched August 2008, 
 NanoSail-D2, launched November 2010, 
 Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), launched February 2009, 
 Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2), launched July 2014, 
 Origins program
 Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE), launched June 1999, 
 Kepler, launched March 2009,  – searching for Earth-sized exoplanets in the habitable zone 
 James Webb Space Telescope, launched December 2021, 
 Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS), launched February 2007, 
 Small Explorer program (SMEX)
 Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM), launched April 2007, 
 Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST), launched August 1996, 
 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), launched April 2003, 
 Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), launched October 2008, 
 Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), launched June 2012,  – X-ray telescope orbiting Earth
 Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), launched February 2002,  – Sun observing, Earth satellite
 Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX), launched July 1992, 
 Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS), launched December 1998, 
 Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE), launched August 1998,  – Sun observing, Earth satellite
 Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE), launched March 1999, 
 Solar Terrestrial Probes program
 Hinode (Solar-B)
 Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED)
 Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS)
 Uhuru
 Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
BioSentinel
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching May 2027, 
INCUS, launching 2027,

Sun
 Pioneer program
 Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9, launched between December 1965 and November 1968,  – Solar wind, solar magnetic field and cosmic rays
Helios 1 and 2, launched December 1974 and January 1976, 
 Ulysses spacecraft, launched October 1990,  – ESA partnership
 Genesis, launched August 2001,  – returned sample of solar wind
 Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), launched December 1995,  – ESA partnership
 Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), launched August 1997, 
 Solar Maximum Mission (SolarMax), launched February 1980,  – suffered partial failure after launch; repaired in April 1984 during a Space Shuttle mission
 Solar Terrestrial Probes program
 TIMED, launched December 2001, 
 Hinode, launched September 2006, 
 STEREO, launched October 2006, 
 MMS, launched March 2015, 
 IMAP, launching 2025, 
 Parker Solar Probe, launched August 2018,  – the first mission into the Sun's corona
 Living With a Star
 Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched February 2010, 
 Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) –  two campaigns of 20 balloons each, studying the Van Allen radiation belts, 2012 to 2014 This mission is a complement to the Van Allen Probes (RBSP).
CubeSat for Solar Particles (CuSP), launched November 2022

Moon

 Pioneer program
 Pioneer 0, launched August 1958, 
 Pioneer 1, launched October 1958, 
 Pioneer 2, launched November 1958, 
 Pioneer 3, launched December 1958, 
 Pioneer 4, launched March 1959, 
 Pioneer P-1, launched September 1959, 
 Pioneer P-3, launched November 1959, 
 Pioneer P-30, launched September 1960, 
 Pioneer P-31, launched December 1960, 
 Ranger program
 Ranger 1, launched August 1961, 
 Ranger 2, launched November 1961, 
 Ranger 3, launched January 1962, 
 Ranger 4, launched April 1962, 
 Ranger 5, launched October 1962, 
 Ranger 6, launched January 1964, 
 Ranger 7, launched July 1964, 
 Ranger 8, launched February 1965, 
 Ranger 9, launched March 1965, 
 Surveyor program
 Surveyor 1, launched May 1966, 
 Surveyor 2, launched September 1966, 
 Surveyor 3, launched April 1967, 
 Surveyor 4, launched July 1967, 
 Surveyor 5, launched September 1967, 
 Surveyor 6, launched November 1967, 
 Surveyor 7, launched January 1968, 
 Lunar Orbiter program
 Lunar Orbiter 1, launched August 1966, 
 Lunar Orbiter 2, launched November 1966, 
 Lunar Orbiter 3, launched February 1967, 
 Lunar Orbiter 4, launched May 1967, 
 Lunar Orbiter 5, launched August 1967, 
 Clementine, launched January 1994, 
 Discovery Program
 Discovery 3 – Lunar Prospector, launched January 1998, 
 Discovery 11 – GRAIL, launched September 2011,  
 Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) – instrument for ISRO's Chandraayan-1, launched October 2008, 
 Lunar Precursor Robotic Program (LPRP)
 LCROSS, launched June 2009, 
 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched June 2009, 
 LADEE, launched September 2013, 
 Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter'''s ShadowCam instrument, launched August 2022, 
 CAPSTONE, launched November 2022, 
 LunaH-Map, launched November 2022, 
 Lunar IceCube, launched November 2022, 
 Lunar Flashlight, launched December 2022, 
 Commercial Lunar Payload Services
 Peregrine Mission One, launched January 2024, 
 IM-1, launched February 2024,  – first commercial lunar landing. First American moon landing since Apollo 17 in December 1972.

Mercury
 Mariner program
 Mariner 10, launched November 1973,  – flyby of Venus; multiple flybys of Mercury; first spacecraft to Mercury
 Discovery program
 Discovery 7 – MESSENGER, launched August 2004,  – first to orbit Mercury

Venus
 Mariner program
 Mariner 1, launched July 1962,  – intended to be first American flyby of Venus
 Mariner 2, launched August 1962,  – first flyby of Venus by an operational spacecraft
 Mariner 5, launched June 1967,  – flyby of Venus
 Mariner 10, launched November 1973,  – flyby of Venus; multiple flybys of Mercury; first spacecraft to Mercury
 Pioneer program
 Pioneer 5, launched March 1960,  – interplanetary space between Earth and Venus
 Pioneer Venus project
 Pioneer Venus Orbiter, launched May 1978,  – Venus orbiter
 Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, launched August 1978,  – Venus atmospheric probes
 Magellan, launched May 1989,  – radar mapping of Venus
 Discovery Program
 Discovery 15 – VERITAS, launching 2028, 
 Discovery 16 – DAVINCI, launching 2029, 

Mars

 Mariner program
 Mariner 4, launched November 1964, 
 Mariner 6 and 7, launched February 1969, 
 Mariner 8, launched May 1971, 
 Mariner 9, launched May 1971, 
 Viking program
 Viking 1, launched August 1975, 
 Viking 2, launched September 1975, 
 Mars Observer, launched September 1992, 
 Mars Global Surveyor, launched November 1996, 
 Discovery Program
 Discovery 2 – Mars Pathfinder / Sojourner rover, launched July 1997, 
 Discovery 12 – InSight, launched May 2018, 
 Mars Polar Lander, launched January 1999, 
 Deep Space 2, launched January 1999,  – (sub-surface probes)
 2001 Mars Odyssey, launched April 2001, 
 Mars Exploration Rovers
 Spirit rover, launched June 2003, 
 Opportunity rover, launched June 2003, 
 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched August 2005,  – Mars orbiter
 Mars Scout program
 Phoenix, launched August 2007,  – Mars lander
 MAVEN, launched November 2013,  – orbiter studying the atmosphere of Mars
 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) / Curiosity rover, launched November 2011,  – Mars rover exploring Gale Crater
 InSight, launched May 2018, 
 Mars 2020 
 Perseverance rover, launched July 2020,  – Mars rover exploring Jezero Crater
 Ingenuity helicopter, launched July 2020,  – first powered flight on Mars
 EscaPADE, launching  2025, 
 NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return, launching 2027 and 2028, 

Jupiter
 Pioneer program
 Pioneer 10, launched March 1972,  – first to the asteroid belt and Jupiter
 Pioneer 11, launched April 1973,  – asteroid belt and Jupiter, first to Saturn
 Voyager program
 Voyager 1, launched September 1977,  – flybys of Jupiter and Saturn; extended mission to explore interstellar medium; most distant human-made object
 Voyager 2, launched August 1977,  – flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; extended mission to explore interstellar medium; first spacecraft to Uranus and Neptune
 Galileo, launched October 1989,  – Jupiter and its moons
 New Frontiers program
 New Frontiers 2 – Juno, launched August 2011,  – Jupiter orbiter mission
 Europa Clipper, launched October 2024, 

Saturn
 Pioneer program
 Pioneer 11, launched April 1973,  – asteroid belt and Jupiter, first to Saturn
 Voyager program
 Voyager 1, launched September 1977,  – flybys of Jupiter and Saturn; extended mission to explore interstellar medium; most distant human-made object
 Voyager 2, launched August 1977,  – flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; extended mission to explore interstellar medium; first spacecraft to Uranus and Neptune
 Cassini–Huygens, launched October 1997,  – Saturn and its moons
 New Frontiers program
 New Frontiers 4 – Dragonfly, launching 2028, 
 Enceladus Orbilander, launching 2038, 

Uranus
 Voyager program
 Voyager 2, launched August 1977,  – flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; extended mission to explore interstellar medium; first spacecraft to Uranus and Neptune
 Uranus Orbiter and Probe, launching 2032, 

Neptune
 Voyager program
 Voyager 2, launched August 1977,  – flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; extended mission to explore interstellar medium; first spacecraft to Uranus and Neptune

Asteroids/comets
 New Millennium Program (NMP)
 NEAR Shoemaker, launched February 1996,  – close study of 433 Eros
 Deep Space 1 (DS1), launched October 1998,  – first spacecraft propelled by an ion thruster
 Discovery Program
 Discovery 4 – Stardust, launched February 1999,  – follow-up for Deep Impact's primary mission to 9P/Tempel
 Discovery 6 – CONTOUR, launched July 2002, 
 Discovery 8 – Deep Impact (primary); EPOXI (extended), launched January 2005, 
 Discovery 9 – Dawn, launched September 2007,  – Vesta in 2011-2012, and Ceres in 2015-2018
 Discovery 13 – Lucy, launched October 2021,  –  Will fly by one main-belt asteroid and seven Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
 Discovery 14 – Psyche, launched October 2023, 
 New Frontiers program
 New Frontiers 3 – OSIRIS-REx – launched September 2016, 
 Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), launched November 2021, 
 Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, launched November 2022, 

Dwarf planets
 New Frontiers program
 New Frontiers 1 – New Horizons, launched January 2006,  – flyby of Pluto and its moons in 2015; first to Pluto
 Discovery Program
 Discovery 9 – Dawn, launched September 2007,  – Vesta in 2011-2012, and Ceres in 2015-2018

Canceled or undeveloped missions

Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF)
Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO)
Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher (MAX-C) 
Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO)
Asteroid Redirect Mission (2013–2017)
 Origins Program
 Space Interferometry Mission (SIM)
 Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)
Pluto Kuiper Express (PLUTOKE) – replaced by New HorizonsOld proposals
 Mars Scout program
 Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey (ARES) (2000-2010 concept)
 TAU (spacecraft)- probe to 1000 AU (1980s concept)

See also
 NASA:
 Large strategic science missions, the NASA flagship missions
 Discovery Program, medium-cost NASA missions
 New Frontiers program, medium-large NASA missions to outer planets
 When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions'' – 2008 documentary covering NASA's mission history.
 Space exploration
 Timeline of Solar System exploration
 List of European Space Agency programmes and missions

References

Bibliography

External links
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Lists of space missions
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