We are celebrating the anniversary of the Mars Launch! The Rover is on the Mars surface since February 18th, returning videos, information and photos on a daily basis. How nice. We are blessed to be in the USA! I am sharing the past year’s nice history of important NASA flight:
Mission Summary:
NASA Launches 2020 |
|
First Launch |
January 7, 2020
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Last Launch
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December 29, 2020
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Total Launches
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114
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Successes
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104
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Individual Missions:
Launch Date | Mission | Vehicle | Launch Site | Total Launch Cost |
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2020 | ||||
02/09/2020 |
Solar Orbiter | Atlas V-411 | Launch Complex 41 – Cape Canaveral, FL (CCAFS SLC-41) |
$172.7M |
05/30/2020 | SpaceX Demo-2 mission on SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour (Test Mission) |
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket |
Launch Complex 39A – Cape Canaveral, FL (Demo-2) | $316M |
07/30/2020 |
Mars 2020 | Atlas V-541 | Launch Complex 41 – Cape Canaveral, FL (CCAFS SLC-41) |
$243M |
08/02/2020 | LANDING: SpaceX Demo-2 mission on SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour (Test Mission) |
N/A |
N/A | N/A |
11/21/2020 |
Sentinel-6 | Falcon 9 Full Thrust |
Launch Complex 4 – Vandenberg AFB, CA (VAFB SLC-4E) |
$97M |
2021 | ||||
02/18/2021 |
LANDING on Mars: Mars 2020 |
N/A | N/A | N/A |
Hopefully the next year can prosper, but right now we are all waiting for the next launch! Meantime, I will show a list of the major space programs flights from past days:
Mission Programs 1958 to Present:
Program |
Start Date |
First Crewed Flight |
End Date |
No. of crewed missions launched |
Notes |
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Mercury | 1958 |
1961 |
1963 |
6 | First U.S. Crew on a Mission |
Gemini | 1961 |
1965 |
1966 |
10 | Practice Space Rendezvous/EVA’s |
Apollo | 1960 |
1968 |
1972 |
11 | First Humans to Land on the Moon |
Skylab | 1964 |
1973 |
1974 |
3 | First American Space Station |
Apollo–Soyuz | 1971 |
1975 |
1975 |
1 |
Joint Test Project with Soviet Union |
Space Shuttle program | 1972 |
1981 | 2011 | 135 | First Missions Where spacecraft was Reused |
Shuttle-Mir program | 1993 |
1995 |
1998 |
11 | Russian partnership |
International Space Station |
1993 |
1998 |
Ongoing |
63 | Joint with Roscosmos, CSA, ESA, and JAXA; Americans flew on Russian Soyuz after 2011 retirement of Space Shuttle |
Commercial Crew Program |
2011 |
2020 | Ongoing |
3 |
Current program to shuttle Americans to the ISS |
Artemis program | 2017 |
Ongoing |
Ongoing |
0 |
Current program to bring humans to the Moon again |
Table Information Courtesy NASA.gov

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NASA Mars Flight Anniversary
This is amazing! I could never go to space but it is amazing! Thank you for sharing!