Solar Arrays

The first spacecraft to fly by Mars and return close-up photographs of another planet.

America’s first space station hosts three crews and proves humans can live in space for months.

Radar mapping strips away the clouds of Venus to reveal a world of volcanoes and lava plains.

The telescope that rewrote astronomy, saved in orbit by five servicing missions.

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.

The infrared Great Observatory peers through cosmic dust and studies distant exoplanets.

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

The planet hunter that proved planets outnumber stars in our galaxy.

A solar-powered spacecraft dives through Jupiter’s radiation belts to probe its hidden interior.

An orbiter solves the mystery of how Mars lost its atmosphere to the solar wind.

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.

The fastest human-made object flies through the Sun’s atmosphere.

Humanity’s first planetary defense test successfully changes an asteroid’s orbit.

The most powerful space telescope ever built unfolds a million miles from Earth.

The largest planetary spacecraft NASA has ever built heads for Jupiter’s ocean moon.