Mission	Type	Agency	Launch	Status
Freedom 7 (Mercury-Redstone 3)	Crewed suborbital	NASA	1961-05-05	Completed
Friendship 7 (Mercury-Atlas 6)	Crewed orbital	NASA	1962-02-20	Completed
Apollo 8The Moon	Crewed lunar orbit	NASA	1968-12-21	Completed
Apollo 11The Moon	Crewed lunar landing	NASA	1969-07-16	Completed
Apollo 13The Moon	Crewed lunar (aborted)	NASA	1970-04-11	Completed
Apollo 17The Moon	Crewed lunar landing	NASA	1972-12-07	Completed

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NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics
Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.

Quick facts

Type: Space mission
Agency: NASA
Mission type: Orbiter and lander
Destination: Saturn
Launch date: 1997-10-15
Status: Completed

Provenance & sources

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Cassini–Huygens, a NASA–ESA–ASI mission, orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 and delivered ESA's Huygens probe to the surface of Titan in January 2005.
Source: NASA Science · Public domain (US Government work)

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Mission pageCassini–Huygens — NASA

NASA

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NASA (n.d.). Cassini–Huygens — NASA. NASA. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/cassini/

@misc{cite:mission-space_mission-cassini-huygens,
  title        = {Cassini–Huygens — NASA},
  organization = {NASA},
  year         = {n.d.},
  url          = {https://science.nasa.gov/mission/cassini/},
  note         = {NASA mission page for Cassini–Huygens.}
}

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Related missions

Mission	Type	Agency	Launch	Status
Freedom 7 (Mercury-Redstone 3)	Crewed suborbital	NASA	1961-05-05	Completed
Friendship 7 (Mercury-Atlas 6)	Crewed orbital	NASA	1962-02-20	Completed
Apollo 8The Moon	Crewed lunar orbit	NASA	1968-12-21	Completed
Apollo 11The Moon	Crewed lunar landing	NASA	1969-07-16	Completed
Apollo 13The Moon	Crewed lunar (aborted)	NASA	1970-04-11	Completed
Apollo 17The Moon	Crewed lunar landing	NASA	1972-12-07	Completed

NASA (n.d.). Cassini–Huygens — NASA. NASA. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/cassini/ @misc{cite:mission-space_mission-cassini-huygens, title = {Cassini–Huygens — NASA}, organization = {NASA}, year = {n.d.}, url = {https://science.nasa.gov/mission/cassini/}, note = {NASA mission page for Cassini–Huygens.} }