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The missions that shaped spaceflight.

From the first bootprints on the Moon to telescopes peering at the dawn of time. A curated walk through every completed mission Skywake has archived - telemetry snapshots, editorial, and links back to the primary sources.

Era
Agency
Type
- Recently Completed
10 DAYS AGO
NASA · Crewed · Lunar flyby

Artemis II

First crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17. Four astronauts, ten days, one free-return around the Moon.

APR 1, 2026 → APR 10, 2026 · 10 DAY MISSION
Open mission →
Crew
Reid Wiseman (CDR) · Victor Glover · Christina Koch · Jeremy Hansen
Trajectory
Free-return · 7,400 km from far-side surface
Vehicle
SLS Block 1 · Orion
Recovery
Pacific · USS Portland · Apr 10 2026
1960s-70s
The decade that invented human spaceflight, reached the Moon, and then kept going - all the way out of the solar system.
04 entries
1969
Apollo 11
First crewed lunar landing. Mare Tranquillitatis, 20 July 1969.
CREWEDLUNARLANDING
NASA8 days→1970
Apollo 13
The successful failure - a lunar landing turned survival story.
CREWEDLUNAR
NASA6 days→1977
Voyager 1
Humanity farthest spacecraft - now in interstellar space at 164.7 AU.
ROBOTICINTERSTELLARLIVE
NASA48 years - ongoing→1977
Voyager 2
Only spacecraft to visit all four outer planets.
ROBOTICGRAND-TOUR
NASA48 years - ongoing→
1980s-90s
Hubble reshaped how we see the universe. Robotic explorers reached further than ever before.
01 entries
1990
Hubble Space Telescope
35 years of unprecedented views of the cosmos from Earth orbit.
TELESCOPELEO
NASA35 years→
2000s-10s
Rovers became semi-permanent residents of Mars. Cassini turned Saturn into a decade of discovery.
05 entries
1997
Cassini
13 years orbiting Saturn, ending in a planned plunge into the planet.
ROBOTICSATURNFLAGSHIP
NASA1997 - 2017→2011
Curiosity
Car-sized rover exploring Gale Crater since 2012.
ROBOTICMARSSURFACE
NASASol 4,512→2003
Mars Express
ESA oldest operating interplanetary mission, still mapping Mars polar ice.
ROBOTICMARSORBITER
ESA23 years→2004
Rosetta & Philae
First mission to orbit a comet - and the first to land on one.
ROBOTICCOMETESA
ESA2004 - 2016→2006
New Horizons
First spacecraft to visit Pluto, now exploring the Kuiper Belt.
ROBOTICDEEP-SPACE
NASA20 years→
2020s
A telescope that sees first light, twin rovers compounding discoveries, and the slow return of humans beyond low Earth orbit.
09 entries
2021
James Webb Space Telescope
The largest, most powerful space telescope ever built - infrared, L2 halo.
TELESCOPEL2 HALOINFRARED
NASAStill operating→2023
JUICE
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - ESA flagship to Ganymede, Callisto, Europa.
ROBOTICJUPITERLIVE
ESAIn flight - 1099d→
2023
OSIRIS-REx
Delivered 121.6 g of pristine asteroid Bennu to the Utah desert.
ROBOTICSAMPLE-RETURN
NASA2016 - 2023→
2024
Europa Clipper
First mission to study Jupiter's ocean moon Europa - 49 planned flybys.
ROBOTICJUPITEREUROPA
NASAIn flight→2018
Parker Solar Probe
Closest spacecraft to the Sun - touched the solar corona.
ROBOTICSOLARRECORD
NASAStill operating→2023
Psyche
Journey to a metal-rich asteroid - exploring a planetary core.
ROBOTICASTEROID
NASAIn flight→2025
Crew-11
ISS crew rotation - returned early due to medical emergency.
CREWEDISS
NASA167 days→2024
Hera
Planetary defence mission - studying DART's asteroid impact aftermath.
ROBOTICASTEROIDPLANETARY DEFENCE
ESAIn flight→2020
Perseverance & Ingenuity
Searching for ancient life on Mars - and the first powered flight on another world.
ROBOTICMARSSURFACE
NASASol 1,800+→