Mission Archive

NASA/ASI · 2021

Didymos, Dimorphos

The first planetary defence test. NASA deliberately crashed the spacecraft into Dimorphos, the small moon of the asteroid Didymos, and shortened its orbit by 32 minutes.

ISRO · 2008

Moon

India's first mission to the Moon. Its instruments, including NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, found water molecules across the lunar surface.

NASA · 2005

Tempel 1, Hartley 2

A NASA mission that fired a 372 kg impactor into comet Tempel 1 to expose material from beneath its surface. The flyby spacecraft later visited a second comet, Hartley 2, as the EPOXI mission.

USSR · 1959

Moon

The first spacecraft to reach the surface of another world, striking the Moon after a flight of about a day and a half.