Mission Log · A Record of Spaceflight

The Mission Almanac

The missions the interactive almanac flies — 51 so far, from Sputnik onward. Each name opens that mission's place on its world or its grand tour: the story, the flight data, the photographs, the flight itself. The catalogue grows world by world.

  1. 1957 Sputnik 1 Low Earth Orbit (215 × 939 km)
  2. 1961 Vostok 1 Low Earth Orbit (169 × 327 km)
  3. 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) Suborbital spaceflight
  4. 1961 Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7) Suborbital spaceflight
  5. 1962 Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7) Low Earth orbit
  6. 1962 Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7) Low Earth orbit
  7. 1962 Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7) Low Earth orbit
  8. 1963 Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) Low Earth orbit
  9. 1964 Mariner 4 Mars
  10. 1965 Gemini 3 Low Earth orbit
  11. 1965 Gemini 4 Low Earth orbit
  12. 1965 Gemini 5 Low Earth orbit
  13. 1965 Gemini 7 Low Earth orbit
  14. 1965 Gemini 6A Low Earth orbit
  15. 1966 Gemini 8 Low Earth orbit
  16. 1966 Gemini 9A Low Earth orbit
  17. 1966 Gemini 10 Low Earth orbit
  18. 1966 Gemini 11 Low Earth orbit
  19. 1966 Gemini 12 Low Earth orbit
  20. 1971 Mariner 9 Mars orbit
  21. 1972 Pioneer 10 Jupiter; interstellar space
  22. 1973 Pioneer 11 Jupiter, Saturn; interstellar space
  23. 1975 Viking 1 Chryse Planitia, Mars
  24. 1977 Voyager 2 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, interstellar medium
  25. 1977 Voyager 1 Jupiter, Saturn, interstellar medium
  26. 1989 Galileo Jupiter system
  27. 1990 Ulysses Solar polar orbit
  28. 1992 Mars Observer Mars
  29. 1996 Mars Global Surveyor Mars orbit
  30. 1996 Mars Pathfinder / Sojourner Ares Vallis, Mars
  31. 1997 Cassini–Huygens Saturn system, Titan
  32. 1998 Nozomi Mars (flyby)
  33. 1998 Mars Climate Orbiter Mars
  34. 1999 Mars Polar Lander Martian south pole
  35. 2001 2001 Mars Odyssey Mars orbit
  36. 2003 Mars Express Mars orbit
  37. 2003 Spirit (MER-A) Gusev Crater, Mars
  38. 2003 Opportunity (MER-B) Meridiani Planum, Mars
  39. 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars low orbit (~300 km)
  40. 2006 New Horizons Pluto–Charon, Kuiper Belt
  41. 2007 Phoenix Vastitas Borealis, Mars
  42. 2011 Juno Jupiter polar orbit
  43. 2011 Curiosity (MSL) Gale Crater, Mars
  44. 2013 Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) Mars orbit
  45. 2013 MAVEN Mars orbit
  46. 2016 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Mars orbit
  47. 2018 InSight Elysium Planitia, Mars
  48. 2018 MarCO (Mars Cube One) Mars flyby
  49. 2020 Perseverance / Ingenuity Jezero Crater, Mars
  50. 2025 ESCAPADE Mars orbit
  51. 2028 Dragonfly Titan (moon of Saturn)