Year Anniversary of the Return to NASA Flight & Launch to Mars: Info & Trivia

July 30, 2021February 6, 2023

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
Last Launch	December 29, 2020
Total Launches	114
Successes	104

Individual Missions:

Launch Date	Mission	Vehicle	Launch Site	Total Launch Cost
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
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