NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which was established in 1958, is the agency responsible for the public space program of the United States of America. It is also responsible for long-term civilian and military aerospace research.

NASA spaceflight missions

Human spaceflight

• Mercury program
• Gemini program
• Apollo program
• Skylab
• Space Shuttle
• International Space Station (working together with ESA, Rosviakosmos and JAXA)
• Project Constellation

Robotic space missions

• Earth Observing
• Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
• TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics)
• Lunar missions
• Ranger
• Surveyor
• Lunar Orbiter
• Clementine
• Lunar Prospector
• Mercury missions
• Mariner 10
• MESSENGER
• Venus missions
• Mariner 2, 5 and 10
• Pioneer Venus
• Magellan
• Mars missions
• Mariner 4, 6, 7, 8 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)
• Jupiter missions
• Pioneer 10
• Galileo
• Saturn missions
• Cassini-Huygens together with ESA
• 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
• New Horizons (Planned for 2006) – Jupiter, Pluto and Kuiper Belt
• Asteroidal/cometary missions
• NEAR Shoemaker
• Deep Space 1
• Stardust
• Deep Impact
• Dawn (Planned for 2006)
• Proposed or canceled planetary-asteroid missions
• JIMO (cancelled)
• CRAF (cancelled)
• NetLanders (cancelled)
• Titan Explorer (proposed)
• Neptune Orbiter (proposed)
• Sun observing missions
• SOHO – ESA partnership
• Ulysses – ESA partnership
• 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
• WMAP