Robotics

The final Apollo Moon landing carries the first scientist-astronaut to the lunar surface.

Airbags bounce a lander onto Mars carrying Sojourner, the first rover on another planet.

The first resident crew boards the International Space Station, beginning 25+ years of continuous human presence in orbit.

A 90-day rover mission that lasted six years and found evidence of ancient hot springs on Mars.

The record-breaking rover drives a marathon across Mars over nearly 15 years.

A polar lander digs into the Martian arctic and touches water ice for the first time.

A car-sized nuclear-powered rover lands via sky crane and proves ancient Mars was habitable.

A seven-year round trip brings back pristine samples of asteroid Bennu.

A seismometer on the Martian plains listens to marsquakes and maps the planet’s interior.

A sample-caching rover and the first aircraft to fly on another planet.