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NASA spaceflight missions

Human spaceflight

• Mercury program The first successful American manned spaceflight program.
• Gemini program The second human spaceflight program.
• Apollo program The first manned mission to the moon.
• Apollo-Soyuz The first joint flight of the US and Soviet space programs.
• Skylab The first space station the United States launched into orbit.
• Space Shuttle The first orbital spacecraft designed for partial reusability.
• Shuttle-Mir Program A joint effort between the United States and Russia to build another manned space station.
• International Space Station A joint Russia, Canada, ESA, and JAXA along with co-operators, ASI and Brazil) to build another space station.
• Orion Program NASA's proposed series of human spaceflight spacecraft, intended to replace the Space Shuttle fleet.

Satellite and Robotic space missions

• Earth Observing
  • Explorer I The first Earth-orbiting satellite launched by the United States.
  • Modis A scientific instrument launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999.
  • Carbon Observer (OCO)
  • SeaWiFS Ocean color http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/
  • Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
  • THEMIS
  • TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics)
  • list of Earth Observing System (EOS) missions

• Lunar missions
  • Ranger
  • Surveyor
  • Lunar Orbiter
  • Clementine
  • Lunar Prospector
  • Moon Mineralogy Mapper (NASA instrument for ISRO's Chandraayan-1 spacecraft planned for 2007)
  • Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Planned for 2008)

• Mercury missions
  • Mariner 10
  • MESSENGER

• Venus missions
  • Mariner 2, 5 and 10
  • Pioneer Venus
  • Magellan

• Mars missions
  • Mariner 4, 6, 7 and 9
  • Viking 1 and 2
  • Mars Observer
  • Mars Pathfinder
  • Mars Climate Orbiter
  • Mars Polar Lander
  • Mars Global Surveyor
  • 2001 Mars Odyssey
  • Mars Exploration Rovers
  • Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
  • Phoenix Lander (Planned for 2007)
  • Mars Science Laboratory (Planned for 2009)
  • Mars 2011 (Planned for 2011)
  • Astrobiology Field Laboratory (Planned for 2016)
  • Mars Sample Return Mission (ESA partnership) (Planned for 2016-2024)^{Citation needed}

• Jupiter missions
  • Pioneer 10
  • Galileo
  • Juno (Planned for 2010)

• Saturn missions
  • Cassini-Huygens together with ESA

• Neptune missions
  • Neptune Orbiter (Planned for 2016)

• Pluto missions
  • New Horizons

• Multi-planet missions
  • Pioneer 11 – Jupiter and Saturn
  • Mariner 10 – Venus and Mercury
  • Voyager 1 – Jupiter and Saturn
  • Voyager 2 – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

• Asteroidal/cometary missions
  • NEAR Shoemaker
  • Deep Space 1
  • Stardust
  • Deep Impact
  • Dawn (Planned for 2007)

• Canceled planetary-asteroid missions
  • Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (cancelled)
  • JIMO (cancelled)
  • CRAF (cancelled)
  • NetLander (cancelled)
  • Pluto Kuiper Express (cancelled; New Horizons is replacement)

• Proposed planetary-asteroid missions
  • Glory (proposed)

• Sun observing missions
  • SOHO – ESA partnership
  • Ulysses – ESA partnership
  • STEREO (Planned for 2006)
  • Solar Dynamics Observatory (Planned for 2008)

• Great Observatories for Space Astrophysics
  • Hubble Space Telescope – ESA partnership
  • Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory
  • Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF)

• Other observatories
  • COBE
  • FUSE
  • Infrared Astronomical Satellite
  • James Webb Space Telescope – ESA partnership (Planned for 2013)
  • WMAP