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Historic Missions

The pioneering missions of the early Space Age (pre-1980).

21 entries.

Mission	Type	Agency	Launch	Status
Sputnik 1Low Earth orbit	Earth orbiter	Roscosmos	1957-10-04	Completed
Luna 2The Moon	Impactor	Roscosmos	1959-09-12	Completed
Vostok 1Low Earth orbit	Crewed orbital	Roscosmos	1961-04-12	Completed
Freedom 7 (Mercury-Redstone 3)	Crewed suborbital	NASA	1961-05-05	Completed
Friendship 7 (Mercury-Atlas 6)	Crewed orbital	NASA	1962-02-20	Completed
Vostok 6	Crewed orbital	Roscosmos	1963-06-16	Completed
Voskhod 2	Crewed orbital	Roscosmos	1965-03-18	Completed
Luna 9The Moon	Lander	Roscosmos	1966-01-31	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
Venera 7Venus	Lander	Roscosmos	1970-08-17	Completed
Luna 17 / Lunokhod 1The Moon	Rover	Roscosmos	1970-11-10	Completed
Pioneer 10Jupiter	Flyby	NASA	1972-03-02	Completed
Apollo 17The Moon	Crewed lunar landing	NASA	1972-12-07	Completed
Pioneer 11Jupiter and Saturn	Flyby	NASA	1973-04-06	Completed
Mariner 10Venus and Mercury	Multiple flyby	NASA	1973-11-03	Completed
Viking 1Mars	Orbiter and lander	NASA	1975-08-20	Completed
Viking 2Mars	Orbiter and lander	NASA	1975-09-09	Completed
Voyager 2Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune	Grand tour and interstellar	NASA	1977-08-20	Active
Voyager 1Jupiter, Saturn, interstellar space	Flyby and interstellar	NASA	1977-09-05	Active