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Spaceflight records
Most records are about human spaceflights. At the end there is a section about unmanned spaceflights.
Longest single flight
Farthest humans from Earth
- Apollo 13 crew; James Lovell, Fred Haise, John Swigert while passing over the far side of the moon at an altitude of 254 km (158 miles) from the lunar surface, they were 400,171 km (248,655 miles) from earth. This record breaking distance was reached at 0:21 UTC on April 15, 1970.
Highest altitude for non-lunar mission
Fastest
Most flights
Firsts
| First
| Person(s)
| Vehicle
| Country
| Year
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Spaceflight and
Orbital flight
| Yuri Gagarin
| Vostok 1
| USSR
| 1961
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| Sub-orbital flight
| Alan Shepard
| Freedom 7
| USA
| 1961
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| Person in space for one day
| Gherman Titov
| Vostok 2
| USSR
| 1961
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Dual spaceflight
Two people in space
| Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
| Vostok 3
Vostok 4
| USSR
| 1962
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Longest solo spaceflight
5-days
| Valery Bykovsky
| Vostok 5
| USSR
| 1963
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| Woman in space
| Valentina Tereshkova
| Vostok 6
| USSR
| 1963
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| Sub-orbital flight by winged spacecraft
| Joe Walker
| X-15
| USA
| 1963
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| Person to enter space twice (above 100 km)
| Joe Walker
| X-15 Flights
90 and 91
| USA
| 1963
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| First three person spacecraft
| Vladimir Komarov
Konstantin Feoktistov
Boris Yegorov
| Voskhod 1
| USSR
| 1964
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| First two person spacecraft
| Pavel Belyayev
Aleksei Leonov
| Voskhod 2
| USSR
| 1965
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| First spacewalk
| Aleksei Leonov
| Voskhod 2
| USSR
| 1965
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| Orbital maneuvers (change orbit)
| Gus Grissom, John W. Young
| Gemini 3
| USA
| 1965
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| Person to fly two orbital spaceflights
| Gordon Cooper
| Faith 7
Gemini 5
| USA
| 1965
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| People to spend one week in space
| Gordon Cooper
Pete Conrad
| Gemini 5
| USA
| 1965
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Space rendezvous
Four people in space
| Frank Borman, Jim Lovell
Walter Schirra, Thomas Stafford
| Gemini 7
Gemini 6A
| USA
| 1965
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| People to spend two weeks in space
| Frank Borman
Jim Lovell
| Gemini 7
| USA
| 1965
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| Space docking
| Neil Armstrong
David Scott
| Gemini 8
| USA
| 1966
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| Rendezvous with two vehicles - Agena 10 & Agena 8
| John W. Young
Michael Collins
| Gemini 10
| USA
| 1966
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| Dual spacewalk
| Aleksei Yeliseyev
Yevgeny Khrunov
| Soyuz 4
Soyuz 5
| USSR
| 1969
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| Moon orbit
| Frank Borman
James Lovell
Bill Anders
| Apollo 8
| USA
| 1968
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| Moon landing
| Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
| Apollo 11
| USA
| 1969
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Triple spaceflight
Seven people in space
| Shonin, Kubasov
Filipchenko, Volkov, Gorbatko
Shatalov, Yeliseyev
| Soyuz 6
Soyuz 7
Soyuz 8
| USSR
| 1969
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Longest duration by
single spacecraft
17.66-days
| Andrian Nikolayev
Vitali Sevastyanov
| Soyuz 9
| USSR
| 1970
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| First space station
| Georgi Dobrovolski
Viktor Patsayev
Vladislav Volkov
| Soyuz 11
| USSR
| 1971
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People in orbit four weeks
(1 month)
| Pete Conrad
Joseph Kerwin
Paul Weitz
| Skylab 2
| USA
| 1973
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People in orbit eight weeks
(2 months)
| Alan Bean
Jack Lousma
Owen Garriott
| Skylab 3
| USA
| 1973
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People in orbit twelve weeks
(3 months)
| Gerald Carr
William Pogue
Edward Gibson
| Skylab 4
| USA
| 1974
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People in orbit twenty weeks
(5 months)
| Vladimir Kovalyonok , Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
| Salyut 6 EO-2, Soyuz 29-Soyuz 31
| USSR
| 1978
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People in orbit twenty-six weeks
(6 months)
| Leonid Popov, Valery Ryumin
| Salyut 6 EO-4, Soyuz 35-Soyuz 37
| USSR
| 1980
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| Person to fly four different types of spacecraft
| John Watts Young
| STS-1/Columbia
| USA
| 1981
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Four person spaceflight
single spacecraft
| Vance Brand,Robert F. Overmyer
Joseph P. Allen, William B. Lenoir
| STS-5/Columbia
| USA
| 1982
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| Person to complete six trips to space
| John Watts Young
| STS-9/Columbia
| USA
| 1983
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Five person spaceflight
single spacecraft
First U.S. woman in space
| Robert L. Crippen, Frederick H. Hauck
John M. Fabian, Sally K. Ride, Norman E. Thagard
| STS-7/Challenger
| USA
| 1983
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Six person spaceflight
single spacecraft
| John W. Young, Brewster H. Shaw
Owen K. Garriott, Robert A. Parker, Ulf Merbold-DE, Byron K. Lichtenberg
| STS-9/Columbia
| USA
 Germany
| 1983
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People in orbit thirty-three weeks
(8 months)
| Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Soloviyov, Oleg Atkov
| Salyut 7 EO-3, Soyuz T-10-Soyuz T-11
| USSR
| 1984
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Seven person spaceflight
single spacecraft
| Robert L. Crippen, Jon A. McBride
Kathryn D. Sullivan, Sally K. Ride, David C. Leestma, Marc Garneau-CA, Paul D. Scully-Power
| STS-41-G/Challenger
| USA
 Canada
| 1984
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Eight person spaceflight
single spacecraft
| Henry W. Hartsfield, Steven R. Nagel
Bonnie J. Dunbar, James F. Buchli, Guion S. Bluford, Reinhard Furrer-DE, Ernst Messerschmid-DE, Wubbo Ockels-NL
| STS-61-A/Challenger
| USA
Germany
 Netherlands
| 1985
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People in orbit fifty-two weeks
(12 months)
| Vladimir Titov, Musa Manarov, Oleg Atkov
| Mir EO-3, Soyuz TM-4-Soyuz TM-6
| USSR
| 1988
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| Three person spacewalk
| Pierre J. Thuot, Richard J. Hieb
Thomas D. Akers
| STS-49/Endeavour
| USA
| 1991
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| Nine people in space; no docking
| Shuttle:James D. Wetherbee, Eileen M. Collins, Michael Foale, Janice E. Voss, Bernard A. Harris, Jr., Vladimir G. Titov
Mir: Valeri Polyakov, Alexander Viktorenko, Elena Kondakova
| STS-63/Discovery, Mir
| USA
 Russia
| 1995
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| Ten people in space; docking
| Robert L. Gibson, Charles J. Precourt, Ellen S. Baker, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Anatoly Solovyev, Nikolai Budarin, Norman E. Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennady Strekalov
| STS-71/Atlantis, Mir
| USA
Russia
| 1995
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| Thirteen people in space; no docking
| Shuttle:Kenneth D. Bowersox, Scott J. Horowitz, Mark C. Lee, Steven A. Hawley, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Steven L. Smith, Joseph R. Tanner
Mir: Vasili Tsibliyev, Aleksandr Lazutkin, Valery Korzun, Alexandr Kaleri, Reinhold Ewald-DE, Jerry M. Linenger-US
| STS-82/Discovery, Mir, Soyuz TM-24, Soyuz TM-25
| USA
Russia
Germany
| 1997
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| Privately funded human space flight
| Mike Melvill
| SpaceShipOne
| USA
| June 21, 2004
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Total time in space - top 50 space travelers
As of October 24, 2004
(**) Sergei Krikalev is scheduled to spend six months on the International Space Station during Expedition 11. Scheduled for April - Oct 2005. During that mission he will break the record for most accumulated time in space with about 815-days in orbit.
Total time in space by country
| Rank
| Nation
| Total person days
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| 1 | USSR/ Russia | 16,858.71
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| 2 | USA | 9,380.42
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| 3 |  France | 384.67
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| 4 | Germany | 310.24
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| 5 | Canada | 121.57
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| 6 |  Japan | 88.25
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| 7 |  Italy | 61.23
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| 8 |  Switzerland | 42.50
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| 9 |  Belgium | 19.79
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| 10 |  Spain | 18.88
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| 11 | Netherlands | 17.90
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| 12 |  Israel | 15.93
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| 13 |  Ukraine | 15.69
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| 14 |  Bulgaria | 11.91
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| 15 | South Africa | 9.89
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| 16 |  Syria | 8.91
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| 17 |  Afghanistan | 8.85
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| 18 |  Czechoslovakia | 7.93
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| 19 |  Austria | 7.928
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| 20 |  Kazakhstan | 7.925
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| 21 |  Poland | 7.919
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| 22 |  Slovakia | 7.914
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| 23 |  India | 7.903
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| 24 |  United Kingdom | 7.885
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| 25 |  Hungary | 7.865
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| 26 |  Cuba | 7.863
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| 27 |  Mongolia | 7.863
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| 28 |  Vietnam | 7.862
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| 29 |  Romania | 7.862
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| 30 |  Saudi Arabia | 7.069
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| 31 |  Mexico | 6.878
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| 32 |  China | 0.891
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| Body
| Spacecraft
| Event
| Country
| Date
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| Earth
| Sputnik 1
| First satellite in orbit
| USSR
| January 3, 1958
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| Earth
| Vanguard 1
| Oldest satellite still in orbit— expected to stay in orbit 240
years. Ceased transmissions in May, 1964
| USA
| March 17, 1958
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| Earth
| Discoverer 13
| First satellite recovered from Orbit
| USA
| August 11, 1960
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| Moon
| Luna 1
| First flyby , dist. of 5,995 km
| USSR
| January 4, 1959
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| Moon
| Luna 2
| First impact
| USSR
| September 14, 1959
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| Moon
| Luna 9
| First soft landing
| USSR
| January 31, 1966
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| Moon
| Luna 10
| First orbiter
| USSR
| April 3, 1966
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| Moon
| Luna 16
| First automated sample return
| USSR
| September 24, 1970
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| Moon
| Luna 17
| First automated roving vehicle - Lunokhod 1
| USSR
| November 17, 1970
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| Sun
| Helios 2
| Highest velocity - 247,510 km/h at .29 AU perihelion
| Germany
| April 17, 1976
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| Mercury
| Mariner 10
| First flyby, dist. of 703 km
| USA
| March 29, 1974
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| Mercury
| MESSENGER
| First orbiter (scheduled)
| USA
| March 18, 2011
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| Venus
| Mariner 2
| First flyby, dist. of 34,762 km
| USA
| December 14, 1962
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| Venus
| Venera 3
| First impact
| USSR
| March 1, 1966
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| Venus
| Venera 7
| First soft landing
| USSR
| August 1, 1970
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| Venus
| Venera 9
| First orbiter
| USSR
| October 22, 1975
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| Venus
| Vega 1
| First helium balloon atmospheric probe
| USSR
| June 11, 1985
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| Mars
| Mariner 4
| First flyby, dist. of 9,846 km
| USA
| July 14, 1965
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| Mars
| Mars 2
| First impact
| USSR
| November 27, 1971
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| Mars
| Mars 3
| First soft landing, telemetry signal for 20 s before
transmissions ceased
| USSR
| December 2, 1971
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| Mars
| Mariner 9
| First orbiter
| USA
| November 14, 1971
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| Mars
| Mars Pathfinder
| First automated roving vehicle - Sojourner
| USA
| July 4, 1997
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| Jupiter
| Pioneer 10
| First flyby, dist. of 130,000 km
| USA
| December 3, 1973
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| Jupiter
| Galileo probe
| First impact
| USA
| December 7, 1995
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| Jupiter
| Galileo spacecraft
| First orbiter
| USA
| December 7, 1995
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| Saturn
| Pioneer 11
| First flyby, dist. of 21,000 km
| USA
| September 1, 1979
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| Saturn
| Cassini orbiter
| First orbiter
| USA
| July 1, 2004
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| Titan
| Huygens probe
| First soft landing
|  ESA
USA
| January 14, 2005
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| Uranus
| Voyager 2
| First flyby, dist. of 81,500 km
| USA
| January 24, 1986
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| Neptune
| Voyager 2
| First flyby, dist. of 40,000 km
| USA
| August 25, 1989
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| Comet Halley
| Vega 1
| First comet flyby, dist. of 8,890 km
| USSR
| March 6, 1986
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| Comet Tempel 1
| Deep Impact
| First comet impact (scheduled)
| USA
| July 4, 2005
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| Comet Wild 2
| Stardust
| First automated sample return of comet dust particles (scheduled)
| USA
| June 15, 2006
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| 951 Gaspra
| Galileo spacecraft
| First asteroid flyby, dist. of 1,600 km
| USA
| October 29, 1991
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| 433 Eros
| NEAR Shoemaker
| First asteroid orbiter
| USA
| February 14, 2000
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| 433 Eros
| NEAR Shoemaker
| First asteroid soft landing
| USA
| February 12, 2001
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| 25143 Itokawa
| Hayabusa
| First asteroid automated sample return (scheduled)
| Japan
| June, 2007
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| Voyager 1
| At greatest distance from Earth, 14 billion km
| USA
| As of 2004
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| Pioneer 6
| Longest operating space probe, brief contact was
reestablished on December 8,2000, after nearly 35 years in space.
| USA
| As of 2004
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| Pioneer 10
| First extra-solar spacecraft
| USA
| June 13, 1986
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| Hubble
| Hubble Robotic Vehicle ,
based upon SPDM
| First automated repair of spacecraft (scheduled)
| USA
Canada
| 2007?
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See also
Last updated: 10-18-2005 15:40:52
Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57
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