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Launch |
End |
Details |
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Luna 1970A |
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1970 |
Failed |
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Luna 1970B |
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1970 |
Failed |
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Apollo 13 |
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1970 |
1970 |
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Crewed mission rounded Moon and safely returned after craft damaged |
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Venera 7 |
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1970 |
1970 |
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First soft landing on Venus |
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Cosmos 359 |
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1970 |
Failed |
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Luna 16 |
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1970 |
1970 |
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Successful Lunar sample return mission |
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Zond 8 |
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1970 |
1970 |
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Lunar flyby and return to splashdown |
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Luna 17 |
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1970 |
1970 |
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Luna landing with deployment of rover Lunokhod 1 |
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Apollo 14 |
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1971 |
1971 |
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Crewed lunar landing |
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Mariner 8 |
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1971 |
Failed |
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Cosmos 419 |
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1971 |
Failed |
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Mars 2 |
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1971 |
1972 |
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Mars Orbiter (lander crashed) |
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Mars 3 |
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1971 |
1972 |
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Mars orbiter and lander |
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1971 |
1972 |
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First mission to achieve Mars orbit and photographed entire surface discovering the giant volcanoes and Valles Marinaris |
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Apollo 15 |
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1971 |
1971 |
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Crewed lunar landing |
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Luna 18 |
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1971 |
Failed |
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Luna 19 |
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1971 |
1971 |
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Lunar orbiter |
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Luna 20 |
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1971 |
1971 |
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Lunar sample return mission |
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Pioneer 10 |
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1972 |
2003 |
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First mission to the outer planets with Jupiter flyby |
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Venera 8 |
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1972 |
1972 |
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Venus landing |
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Cosmos 482 |
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1972 |
Failed |
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Apollo 16 |
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1972 |
1972 |
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Crewed lunar landing |
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Soyuz L3 |
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1972 |
Failed |
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Apollo 17 |
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1972 |
1972 |
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Last crewed lunar landing |
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Luna 21 |
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1973 |
1973 |
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Lunar landing and rover Lunokhod 2 |
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Pioneer 11 |
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1973 |
1995 |
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Flyby of Jupiter and Saturn |
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Skylab |
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1973 |
1974 |
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Crewed orbiter undertaking experiments -multiple crews |
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Explorer 49 (RAE-B) |
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1973 |
1974 |
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Lunar orbiting and radio astronomy mission |
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Mars 4 |
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1973 |
1973 |
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Mars flyby |
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Mars 5 |
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1973 |
1973 |
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Mars orbiter |
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Mars 6 |
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1973 |
1973 |
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Mars lander |
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Mars 7 |
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1973 |
1973 |
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Mars flyby |
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Mariner 10 |
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1973 |
1975 |
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Flyby of Venus and 3 flybys of Mercury taking photographs of half the planet |
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Luna 22 |
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1974 |
1974 |
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Lunar orbiter |
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Luna 23 |
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1974 |
1974 |
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Successful landing but sampler failed |
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Venera 9 |
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1975 |
1975 |
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Venus landing, first pictures returned |
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Venera 10 |
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1975 |
1975 |
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Venus landing |
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Cos-B |
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1975 |
1982 |
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First ESA mission studying Gamma Rays |
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Viking 1 |
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1975 |
1982 |
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Joint orbiter lander. First soft Mars landing with pictures and biology experiment |
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Viking 2 |
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1975 |
1980 |
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As Viking 1 at different location |
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Luna 1975A |
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1975 |
Failed |
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Luna 24 |
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1976 |
1976 |
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Sample return mission |
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Pioneer Venus 1 |
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1978 |
1992 |
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Venus orbiter |
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Pioneer Venus 2 |
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1978 |
1978 |
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Craft with 4 probes |
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ISEE-3/ICE |
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1978 |
1997 |
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Cluster of 3 craft investigating interplanetary medium and flybys of 2 comets including Halley |
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Venera 11 |
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1978 |
1978 |
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Venus Landing |
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Venera 12 |
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1978 |
1978 |
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Venus Landing |
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IUE |
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1978 |
1996 |
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Mission to obtain Ultraviolet spectroscopic observations |
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Seasat |
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1978 |
1978 |
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First mission to study Earths oceans |
This decade saw robotic landings on Mars and Venus and flybys of Jupiter and Saturn