2019 ⟶ India's Chandrayaan-2 Lunar Probe Mission
India launched its second lunar probe called Chandrayaan-2 w...
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🌑 Soviet Luna Program Achieves Lunar Firsts
The USSR and the US both launch probes to the Moon, but NASA's Pioneer probes all failed. The Soviet Luna program was more successful. Luna 2 crash-lands on the Moon's surface in September, and Luna 3 returns the first pictures of the Moon's farside in October.⟶
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United States🪐 Voyager 2 Space Probe Launched
On August 20 the Voyager 2 space probe launched by NASA to study the Jovian system, Saturnian system, Uranian system, Neptunian system, the Kuiper belt, the heliosphere and the interstellar space.⟶
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United States🇮🇳 India's Chandrayaan-2 Lunar Probe Mission
India launched its second lunar probe called Chandrayaan-2 with an orbiter that was successful and a lander called Vikram along with a rover called Pragyan which failed just 2.1 km above the lunar south pole.⟶
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India🇨🇳 Chang'e 4 Soft Landing on the Far Side of the Moon
China's Chang'e 4 became the first spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the far side of the Moon.⟶
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China🚀 NASA Launches Mars 2020 Mission and SpaceX Demo-2
NASA launches Mars 2020 to Mars with a Mars rover and a small helicopter that was named Perseverance and Ingenuity by seventh grader Alexander Mather and eleventh grader Vaneeza Rupani respectively in a naming contest. First human orbital spaceflight launched by a private company occurred when SpaceX Demo-2 carrying astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley was launched to the International Space Station.⟶
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