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NASA announces the selection of two new missions to Venus, VERITAS and DAVINCI+, which will launch between 2028 and 2030. They will be the first American spacecraft sent to Venus since the "Magellan" mission in 1989. The missions will focus on mapping the surface of Venus and calculating the atmosphere's composition to better understand Venus's geological history.
2021-06-2

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docks with the International Space Station (ISS) with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley joining the existing crew aboard the space station.
2020-05-31

NASA's "Parker Solar Probe" spacecraft becomes the closest ever sent to the sun, by passing 42.7 million km (26.6 million miles) from the sun's surface. The previous record was set in 1976 by the "Helios 2" spacecraft. Parker's elliptical orbit will eventually take it to within 6.1 million km (3.8 million miles) of the sun.
2018-10-30

NASA launches the "Parker Solar Probe", an unpiloted spacecraft designed to study the sun.
2018-08-12

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

At least part of Comet C-2012 S1 (also known as Comet Ison) emerged from behind the Sun's corona.
2013-11-29

NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun, from the US state of California.
2013-06-27

The European Space Agency officially joins a project to build a Service Module based on their Automated Transfer Vehicle for NASA’s Orion, a spacecraft to carry astronauts into deep space. [http:--www.nasa.gov-exploration-systems-mpcv-orion_feature_011613.html (NASA)] [http:--www.esa.int-Our_Activities-Human_Spaceflight-Research-ESA_workhorse_to_power_NASA_s_Orion_spacecraft (ESA)] [http:--en.ria.ru-science-20130117-178831167-ESA_Joins_NASAs_Orion_Spacecraft_Project.html (RIA Novosti)]date=August 2019
2013-01-17

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

New data from the NASA space probe MESSENGER indicate that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, almost surely has water ice buried beneath the surface at its north pole.
2012-11-29