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

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