21st April, 1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the Moon.
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Apollo 16 (launched on April 16, 1972) was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon.
April 7th, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey space probe is launched heading to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA’s program. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown.
March 3rd 1915 NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), The predecessor of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is founded.
March 2nd, 1998 National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA’s Galileo spacecraft: Data sent, indicates that Jupiter’s Moon Europa has liquid ocean under a thick crust of Ice.
Gemini 12 Lunched Novermber 11, 1966 was a 1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA’s Project Gemini.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a Space Shuttle Orbiter belonging to the NASA. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J made from 3 to 7 October 1985.
STS-26 was the 26th NASA Space Shuttle mission, the mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 29 September 1988.
Dawn is a space probe launched September 27, 2007 by NASA.
Gemini 11 was the ninth manned spaceflight mission of NASA’s Project Gemini, which flew from September 12 to 15, 1966.
STS-41-D was the 12th flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and the first mission of Space Shuttle Discovery.
