Outline of space exploration

The European Space Agency's Columbus Module at the International Space Station, launched into space on the U.S. Space Shuttle mission STS-122 in 2008.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to space exploration:

Space exploration – use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space.^[1] Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft.

Essence of space exploration

Space exploration

Branches of space exploration

History of space exploration

Main articles: History of space exploration and Timeline of space exploration

Space agencies

List of government space agencies
- Space agencies capable of human spaceflight (as of 2017)
  - RFSA (Russia)
  - CNSA (China)
- Space agencies with full launch capability
  - NASA (USA)
  - RFSA (Russia)
  - CNSA (China)
  - ESA (Europe)
  - JAXA (Japan)
  - ISRO (India)
  - ISA (Israel)

Active space missions

International Space Station
Mars Odyssey (NASA)
Mars Express – ESA satellite orbiting Mars
Mars Exploration Rover (NASA)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA)
Mars Science Laboratory – NASA rover to Mars
MAVEN – NASA satellite orbiting Mars
Mars Orbiter Mission (ISRO) – satellite orbiting Mars
ExoMars (ESA / Roscosmos) – Mars mission
Akatsuki – JAXA satellite orbiting Venus
Dawn – NASA probe orbiting Ceres
Hayabusa 2 (JAXA) – sample return mission to asteroid Ryugu
OSIRIS-REx (NASA) – sample return mission to asteroid Bennu
Juno – NASA satellite orbiting Jupiter
Cassini (NASA) – probe to Saturn
New Horizons – probe to Pluto
Voyager (NASA) – probe to outer Solar System and interstellar space

Future of space exploration

Lunar (the Moon)

Sun

Sundiver (space mission)

Mercury

Colonization of Mercury

Venus

Current and future missions to Venus

Mars

Outer Solar System

Colonization of the outer Solar System
- Colonization of Titan

Beyond the Solar System

General space exploration concepts

Leaders in space exploration

Yuri Gagarin – first man to orbit the Earth
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – first men to walk on the Moon
John Glenn – oldest man in orbit

Space exploration lists

References

↑ "How Space is Explored". NASA.

External links

This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
Space related news
NASA's website on human space travel
ESA: Building the ISS
Unofficial Shuttle Launch Manifest
ISS Assembly Animation

Spaceflight lists and timelines

General

Human spaceflight

General	Manned spacecraft timeline Spaceflights 1961–70 1971–80 1981–90 1991–2000 2001–10 2011–present by program Soviet Russian Vostok Soyuz Mercury Gemini Apollo Skylab Shenzhou Spacelab
Salyut	Expeditions Spaceflights manned unmanned Spacewalks Visitors
Mir	Expeditions Spaceflights manned unmanned Spacewalks Visitors
ISS	Expeditions Spaceflights manned unmanned Spacewalks Visitors
Shuttle	Crews Missions timeline Rollbacks
People	Astronauts by name by year of selection by first flight Apollo Gemini Chinese European Cosmonauts female Jewish Muslim Arab African-American Space travelers by name Space travelers by nationality timeline
EVA	1965–1999 2000–2014 2015–present Cumulative spacewalk records Spacewalkers

Solar System exploration

Earth-orbiting satellites

Vehicles

Launches by rocket type

Launches by spaceport

Satish Dhawan

Agencies, companies
and facilities

Other mission lists
and timelines

Exploration of the Solar System

Exploration of

Artificial objects

On extra-terrestrial surfaces	Moon Venus Mars
In space	Heliocentric orbit Escaping from the Solar System

Lists

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