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NASA announces the four members of Artemis 2, the first crewed mission of the Artemis program which will send astronauts to the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17: Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, and Victor J. Glover. 2023-04-3
NASA launches the Artemis 1 mission. It is the first flight of the Space Launch System. 2022-11-16
NASA's "Dawn" spacecraft exhausts all of its hydrazine fuel propellant and without a functioning maneuvering system enters into uncontrolled motion around dwarf planet Ceres, thus ending its 11-year mission. 2018-11-1
Three astronauts return from a mission to the International Space Station, Briton Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, Timothy Kopra of NASA and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko. 2016-06-18
NASA's "New Horizons" spacecraft completes a historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto and its five moons. Measurements, along with many high-quality photos and reams of data, were taken, including conclusive information regarding the diameter of Pluto and its moons.2015-07-14
NASA releases new pictures from the Dawn spacecraft as it approaches from a distance of 238,000 miles of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will go into orbit around the dwarf planet on March 6. 2015-01-19
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reawakens at 20:00 UTC in preparation for observing the dwarf planet Pluto and its satellites. New Horizons, launched on January 19, 2006, will begin distant observations on January 15, 2015, culminating with its July 14, 2015 closest approach flyby. 2014-12-6
NASA announces that the "Voyager 1" spacecraft, launched in 1977, has nearly reached the edge of the Solar System and is imminently to past through the heliosphere into interstellar space. 2012-12-3
The Dawn spacecraft takes its first photo of the asteroid 4 Vesta. 2011-07-18
NASA scientists discover that Titan, one of Saturn's moons, has the necessary atmosphere to support life. 2010-06-6