Learn About The Ground-breaking Futuristic Dawn Spacecraft!
Orbiting Protoplanets Vesta And Ceres Learn Fun Facts about the groundbreaking Dawn Spacecraft and its mission to explore the two largest asteroids Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Learn about…
Checkout The OSIRIS-Rex Asteroid Sample Return Mission
Asteroid Touch-And-Go The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is a unique sample return mission to the carbonaceous asteroid Bennu which is also a potentially hazardous asteroid that may hit Earth late next century.…
Rosetta Mission – First To Orbit & Land On A Comet!
Comet Chaser The Rosetta spacecraft is a European Space Agency (ESA) probe which travelled for 10 years to chase down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; said to be shaped like a giant rubber…
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter | Mapping The Moon
Revealing The Lunar Surface NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is an unmanned spacecraft in polar lunar orbit, which was designed to image the lunar surface to help identify if water-ice…
Deep Impact – Colliding With A Comet!
Comets Interior The Deep Impact mission, which deployed an impactor probe towards the comet Tempel 1 (and excavate material from its interior), was the first of its kind! The impact…
Stardust – The First Comet Coma Sample Return Mission!
Cosmic Dust, Comets Coma The Stardust mission to collect dust from the coma of comet Wild 2 during its close encounter (along with cosmic dust), and return it to Earth…
NEAR Shoemaker & The First Landing On An Asteroid!
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous The NEAR Shoemaker mission was part of NASA's low-cost Discovery program with the primary goal to rendezvous with, and study, minor planet 433 Eros (an S-class…
Space Probes | Moons, Asteroids, Comets, Dwarf Planets 🛰
Space Probes To Smaller Solar System Objects As you'll probably know, a space probe is those expensive robotic spacecraft launched from Earth to explore other worlds in outer space. The spacecraft may…