Spacecraft

Osiris-Rex is a near-Earth asteroid sample return mission. The NASA spacecraft was launched on 8 September 2016 on an Atlas V rocket. Heading to asteroid Bennu. What...

The Apollo Spacecraft consisted of three modules: Command, Service and Lunar. Project Apollo was the third NASA human spaceflight program. Command Module The Command Module (CM) was...

Gemini Spacecraft was a two-man spacecraft. Plans that a U.S. two-man spacecraft would be designed were revealed on 7 December, 1961. One month later,...

Dawn Mission is a NASA robotic mission to explore asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres in the Asteroid Belt. Dawn spacecraft is NASA's first...

Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter spacecraft (JIMO) is a Planet Jupiter robotic explorer. It will orbit the three Jovian moons: Callisto, Ganymede and Europa between...

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is an pathfinder mission that is allowing astronomers to study the universe in high energy X-rays. NuSTAR was the...

The Voskhod spacecraft is most famous for the first space walk by Alexei Leonov. It consisted of two missions. Voskhod was adaption of the Vostok design. Both...

The Vostok spacecraft was used to launch Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space and was...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multitasking, multipurpose mars orbiter. MRO was the first spacecraft designed from the ground up for aerobraking and was equipped with the most...

Kliper was a proposed replacement for the Soyuz Spacecraft. Kliper was designed and developed in Russia by Moscow’s space rocket corporation Energia. It was going...