So your here because
your curious about spacecraft. Well, here is a list
of space craft:
Manned Spacecraft:
Currently the following spacecraft and spaceports are used for launching human spaceflights:
- Soyuz with Soyuz rocket—Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Space Shuttle—Kennedy Space Center
- International Space Station (ISS)—Assembled in orbit; crews transported by the previous two spacecraft
- Shenzhou spacecraft with Long March rocket—Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Historically, the following spacecraft and spaceports have also been used for human spaceflight launches:
- Vostok—Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Mercury—Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
- Voskhod—Baikonur Cosmodrome
- X-15—Edwards Air Force Base,[4] (two internationally recognized suborbital flights in program)
- Gemini—Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
- Apollo—Kennedy Space Center (Apollo 7 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station)
- Salyut space station—Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Almaz space station—Baikonur Cosmodrome (Almaz was a series of military space stations under cover of the civilian name Salyut)
- Skylab space station—Kennedy Space Center
- Mir space station—Baikonur Cosmodrome
- SpaceShipOne with White Knight—Mojave Spaceport
Unnmanned Spacecraft:
Soft landing capsule (NASA)
Main article: Robotic
spacecraft
- Semi-manned or manned-spec unmanned spacecraft
Main article: Unmanned
resupply spacecraft
- Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)—unmanned European cargo spacecraft
- Buran manned-spec Soviet shuttle (one mission only)
- H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)—unmanned Japanese cargo spacecraft
- Progress—unmanned USSR/Russia cargo spacecraft
- TKS—manned-spec unmanned USSR cargo spacecraft
- Earth Orbit
See also: Satellite
- Explorer 1—first US satellite
- Project SCORE—first communications satellite
- SOHO
- Sputnik 1—world's first artificial satellite
- Sputnik 2—first animal in orbit (Laika)
- Sputnik 5—first capsule recovered from orbit (Vostok precursor)—animals survived
- STEREO—Earth environment observation
- Syncom—first geosynchronous communications satellite
- X-37—spaceplane
- There are more than over 2,000 spacecrafts in orbit.
- Lunar
- Clementine—US Navy mission, orbited Moon, detected hydrogen at the poles
- Kaguya JPN—Lunar orbiter
- Luna 1—first lunar flyby
- Luna 2—first lunar impact
- Luna 3—first images of lunar far side
- Luna 9—first soft landing on the Moon
- Luna 10—first lunar orbiter
- Luna 16—first unmanned lunar sample retrieval
- Lunar Orbiter—very successful series of lunar mapping spacecraft
- Lunar Prospector—confirmed detection of hydrogen at the lunar poles
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter—Identifies safe landing sites & Locates moon resources
- SMART-1 ESA—Lunar Impact
- Surveyor—first USA soft lander
- Chandrayaan 1 —first Indian Lunar mission
- Planetary
- Akatsuki JPN— a Venus orbiter
- Cassini-Huygens—first Saturn orbiter + Titan lander
- Galileo—first Jupiter orbiter+descent probe
- IKAROS JPN— first solar-sail spacecraft
- Mariner 4—first Mars flyby, first close and high resulution images of Mars
- Mariner 9—first Mars orbiter
- Mariner 10—first Mercury flyby, first close up images
- Mars Exploration Rover—a Mars rover
- Mars Express—a Mars orbiter
- Mars Global Surveyor—a Mars orbiter
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter—an advanced climate, imaging, sub-surface radar, and telecommunications Mars orbiter
- MESSENGER—first Mercury orbiter (arrival 2011)
- Mars Pathfinder—a Mars lander + rover
- New Horizons—first Pluto flyby (arrival 2015)
- Pioneer 10—first Jupiter flyby, first close up images
- Pioneer 11—second Jupiter flyby + first Saturn flyby (first close up images of Saturn)
- Pioneer Venus—first Venus orbiter+landers
- Venera 4—first soft landing on another planet (Venus)
- Viking 1—first soft landing on Mars
- Voyager 2—Jupiter flyby + Saturn flyby + first flybys/images of Neptune and Uranus
- Other—deep space
Main article: Space
probe
- Cluster
- Deep Space 1
- Deep Impact (space mission)
- Genesis
- Hayabusa
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
- Stardust
- WMAP
- Fastest spacecraft
- Helios I & II Solar Probes (252,792 km/h/157,078 mph)
- Furthest spacecraft from the Sun
- Voyager 1 at 106.3 AU as of July 2008, traveling outward at about 3.6 AU/year
- Pioneer 10 at 89.7 AU as of 2005, traveling outward at about 2.6 AU/year
- Voyager 2 at 85.49 AU as of July 2008, traveling outward at about 3.3 AU/year
- Heaviest spacecraft
- NASA STS Space Shuttle/Orbiter (109,000 kilograms / 107 long tons; 120 short tons)