User talk:Simpsons contributor/NASA

Human spaceflight

 * Mercury program The first successful American manned spaceflight program.
 * Gemini program The second human spaceflight program.
 * Apollo program The first manned mission to the moon.
 * Apollo-Soyuz The first joint flight of the US and Soviet space programs.
 * Skylab The first space station the United States launched into orbit.
 * Space Shuttle The first orbital spacecraft designed for partial reusability.
 * Shuttle-Mir Program A joint effort between the United States and Russia to build another manned space station.
 * International Space Station A joint Russia, Canada, ESA, and JAXA along with co-operators, ASI and Brazil) to build another space station.
 * Orion Program NASA's proposed series of human spaceflight spacecraft, intended to replace the Space Shuttle fleet.

Satellite and Robotic space missions

 * Earth Observing
 * Explorer I The first Earth-orbiting satellite launched by the United States.
 * Modis A scientific instrument launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999.
 * |Orbiting Carbon Observer (OCO)
 * SeaWiFS Ocean color http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/
 * Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
 * THEMIS
 * TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics)
 * |Complete list of Earth Observing System (EOS) missions


 * Lunar missions
 * Ranger
 * Surveyor
 * Lunar Orbiter
 * Clementine
 * Lunar Prospector
 * Moon Mineralogy Mapper (NASA instrument for ISRO's Chandraayan-1 spacecraft planned for 2007)
 * Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Planned for 2008)


 * Mercury missions
 * Mariner 10
 * MESSENGER


 * Venus missions
 * Mariner 2, 5 and 10
 * Pioneer Venus
 * Magellan


 * Mars missions
 * Mariner 4, 6, 7 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)
 * Mars 2011 (Planned for 2011)
 * Astrobiology Field Laboratory (Planned for 2016)
 * Mars Sample Return Mission (ESA partnership)  (Planned for 2016-2024)Citation needed


 * Jupiter missions
 * Pioneer 10
 * Galileo
 * Juno (Planned for 2010)


 * Saturn missions
 * Cassini-Huygens together with ESA


 * Neptune missions
 * Neptune Orbiter (Planned for 2016)


 * Pluto missions
 * New Horizons


 * 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


 * Asteroidal/cometary missions
 * NEAR Shoemaker
 * Deep Space 1
 * Stardust
 * Deep Impact
 * Dawn (Planned for 2007)


 * Canceled planetary-asteroid missions
 * Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (cancelled)
 * JIMO (cancelled)
 * CRAF (cancelled)
 * NetLander (cancelled)
 * Pluto Kuiper Express (cancelled; New Horizons is replacement)


 * Proposed planetary-asteroid missions
 * Glory (proposed)


 * Sun observing missions
 * SOHO – ESA partnership
 * Ulysses – ESA partnership
 * STEREO (Planned for 2006)
 * Solar Dynamics Observatory (Planned for 2008)


 * 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 (Planned for 2013)
 * WMAP