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 | Planetary Missions
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 | [NAME] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | points of interest
 | Luna - Soviet Lunar Missions (1959 - 1976) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 20 successful missions; orbiters and landers
 | Apollo - NASA Manned Lunar Program (1963 - 1972) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1st men on [NAME]
 | Ranger - NASA Lunar Impact Missions (1964 - 1965) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | photographic impact missions
 | Zond - Soviet Lunar Missions (1965 - 1970) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | orbit and return; precursors to manned missions
 | [NAME] Lunar Mapping Missions (1966 - 1967)
 | Surveyor - NASA [NAME] (1966 - 1968) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | check out soil conditions prior to manned missions
 | Hiten - ISAS (Japan) [NAME] and [NAME] to the [NAME] (1990) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | test of technologies for future lunar missions
 | Clementine - DoD/NASA Lunar Mapping Mission (1994)
 | Lunar Prospector - NASA Global Orbiter Mission to the [NAME] (1998) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | search for polar ice deposits
 | SMART 1 - ESA Orbiter to the [NAME] (2003) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | testing of technologies for future lunar missions
 | Kaguya (SELENE) - JAXA (Japan) Orbiter to the [NAME] (2007) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | because I can
 | Chang'e 1 - CAST (China) Orbiter to the [NAME] (2007) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ditto
 | Chandrayaan-1 - ISRO (India) Orbiter to the [NAME] (2008) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ditto
 | Chang'e 2 - CAST (China) Orbiter to the [NAME] (2010) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | take that, Japan and India!
 | Mercury
 | MESSENGER - NASA Orbiter to Mercury (2004) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | actual orbit March 2011; mission about to end
 | Venus
 | Mariner 2 - NASA Venus flyby (1962) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | major discoveries
 | Mariner 5 - NASA Venus flyby (1967)
 | Venera - Soviet Missions to Venus (1967 - 1983) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | flybys, orbiters, landers (6 or 7)
 | Mariner 10 - NASA Mission to Venus and Mercury (1973)
 | [NAME] Orbiter/Probes to [NAME] (1978)
 | Magellan - NASA Venus Radar Mapping Mission (1989) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | SAR mapping of surface; 100 m resolution
 | Venus Express - ESA Orbiter to [NAME] (2005) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | magnetometers and spectrometers; still operational
 | Mars
 | Mariner 4 - NASA Mars flyby (1964)
 | Mariner 6 - NASA Mars flyby (1969)
 | Mariner 7 - NASA Mars flyby (1969)
 | Mariner 9 - NASA Mars orbiter (1971) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | first spacecraft to orbit another planet
 | Viking - NASA Orbiters/Landers to Mars (1975) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | two landers; both successful; no evidence of life
 | Phobos - Soviet Missions to Mars (1988) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | failed attempts to land on Phobos
 | Mars Observer - NASA Mission to Mars (1992) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | failed orbiter
 | Mars 96 - Russian Orbiter and [NAME] (1996) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | did not make it out of Earth orbit
 | Mars Pathfinder - NASA Environmental Survey Mission to Mars (1996) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | bounce landing; Sojournor rover
 | Mars Global Surveyor - NASA Global Orbiter Mission to Mars (1996) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | spectrometers; surface mapping laser altimeter
 | Mars Climate Orbiter - NASA Orbiter Mission to Mars (1998) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | failed; metric unit problem
 | [NAME] (Planet-B) - ISAS (Japan) Orbiter Mission to Mars (1998) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | poor orbit; frozen fuel
 | Deep Space 2 - NASA Penetrator Mission to Mars (1999) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | penetrating probes; failed mission
 | Mars Polar Lander - NASA [NAME] Mars (1999) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | failed communications; landing may have occurred
 | 2001 Mars Odyssey - NASA Orbiter Mission to Mars (2001) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | still functioning
 | Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity - NASA Rover Mission to Mars (2003) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | still functioning
 | Mars Exploration Rover Spirit - NASA Rover Mission to Mars (2003) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | recently shut down
 | Mars Express - ESA Mars Orbiter and [NAME] (2003) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Beagle2 lander; lost signals
 | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - NASA Orbiter Mission to Mars (2005) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | high-res imaging; spectrometry
 | Mars Phoenix Lander - NASA lander near Mars' north pole (2007) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | spectroscopy; imagers
 | Mars Science Laboratory - NASA Rover Mission to Mars (2011) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | landing scheduled for Aug, 2012
 | Jupiter
 | Pioneer 10 - NASA Jupiter flyby (1972)
 | Pioneer 11 - NASA Jupiter flyby (1973)
 | Galileo - NASA Mission to Jupiter (1989) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | source of most of our good data
 | Ulysses - NASA/ESA Mission to study the solar wind via Jupiter (1990)
 | Juno - NASA Mission to study Jupiter's atmosphere (2011) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | arrival in July, 2016
 | Saturn
 | Cassini - NASA/European Space Agency Mission to Saturn (1997) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | source of most of our good data
 | Huygens - NASA/European Space Agency Mission to Saturn's satellite Titan (1997) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | lander; measured atmosphere and ground conditions
 | Asteroids/Comets
 | Sakigake - Japanese ISAS mission to Comet Halley (1985)
 | Suisei - Japanese ISAS mission to Comet Halley (1985)
 | Giotto - ESA Mission to Comets Halley and Grigg-Skjellerup (1985)
 | NEAR - NASA Rendezvous Mission to Near-Earth Asteroid (1996) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | asteroid [NAME] (13x13x33 km); orbit 2000; soft landing unplanned
 | Deep Space 1 (DS1) - NASA Flyby Mission to asteroid 1992 KD (1998)
 | Stardust - NASA Coma Sample Return Mission to Comet P/Wild 2 (1999) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Dec '03-Jan '04 encounter; successful
 | CONTOUR - NASA Fly-by Mission to three Comet Nuclei (2002)
 | Hayabusa (Muses-C) - ISAS (Japan) Sample Return Mission to Asteroid Itokawa (2003) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | partial success
 | Rosetta - ESA Rendezvous Mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2004) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | rendezvous in May 2014
 | Deep Impact - NASA Rendezvous and Impact with Comet Tempel 1 (2005) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | impact on July 4, 2005; observe impact debris
 | New Horizons - NASA Pluto Kuiper Belt Flyby (2006) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | arrival in July, 2015
 | Dawn - NASA Asteroid Ceres and [NAME] (2007) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | at [NAME] now; leaving for Ceres in August; arrive 2015
 | Multi-purpose
 | Mariner 10 - NASA Mission to Venus and Mercury (1973)
 | Voyager - NASA Missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and beyond (1977) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | still going today; outside of our solar system; Star Trek I's "V'ger"
 | ICE (ISEE-3) - NASA Mission to Comet Giacobini-Zinner (1978(1985))
 | [NAME] mission to Venus and Comet Halley (1984)
 | [NAME] mission to Venus and Comet Halley (1984)
 | Miscellaneous
 | Genesis - NASA Solar Wind Sample Return (2001) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | sample return vehicle crashed; possible success
 | information collected from NASA websites, June 2012
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 | Author/Curator:
 | Dr. [NAME], [EMAIL]
 | NSSDC, Mail Code 690.1
 | NASA [NAME] Flight Center
 | Greenbelt, MD 20771
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 | NASA Official: [NAME], [EMAIL]
 | Last Updated: 17 January 2012, DRW