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Mission Type

This dimension sorts missions by their basic type, such as a crewed flight, a robotic probe or a satellite launch. Wikipedia notes that spaceflights "include the launches of Earth observation and telecommunications satellites, interplanetary missions, the rendezvouses and dockings with space stations, and crewed spaceflights on scientific or tourist missions." Browsing by mission type keeps similar kinds of missions grouped together.

Facts

Comparison

Field Origin Era

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Mission Type

Crewed demonstration flight

Crewed Earth orbital CSM flight

Crewed Earth orbital CSM/LM flight (D)

Crewed low Earth orbit spaceflight program

Crewed lunar flyby

Crewed lunar landing

Crewed lunar landing (H)

Crewed lunar landing (J)

Crewed lunar landing program

Crewed lunar mission (aborted landing)

Crewed lunar orbital CSM flight (C')

Crewed lunar orbital CSM/LM flight (F mission)

Crewed lunar return program

Crewed orbital flight

Crewed single-cosmonaut Vostok-program spaceflight

Crewed spacecraft verification test

Crewed spaceflight program

Human spaceflight program

Joint crewed docking mission

Jupiter orbiter

Lander and lunar rover

Lander and rover

Lander, rover

Lunar exploration program

Lunar orbiter

Lunar orbiter and impactor

Lunar orbiter, asteroid flyby, technology demonstration

Lunar sample return

Mars lander

Mars orbiter

Multinational crewed space station program

Orbiter, lander and rover

Paired Mars orbiter-and-lander mission

Reusable crewed spacecraft program

Reusable crewed spaceplane program

Robotic asteroid sample-return mission

Robotic comet rendezvous and lander mission

Robotic Jupiter moon flyby mission

Robotic Jupiter orbiter mission

Robotic lunar exploration program

Robotic lunar mapping program

Robotic lunar soft-landing program

Robotic Mars astrobiology program

Robotic Mars exploration program

Robotic Mars orbiter mission

Robotic Mars orbiter, lander and rover mission

Robotic Mars rover mission

Robotic Mercury orbiter mission

Robotic outer planet and interstellar mission

Robotic outer planet flyby mission

Robotic outer planet orbiter and lander mission

Robotic planetary defense kinetic-impact mission

Robotic Venus and Halley's Comet flyby program

Robotic Venus atmosphere orbiter mission

Series of lunar and planetary probes

Space station

Space station program

Surface sample return

Uncrewed lunar orbital flight test

Uncrewed lunar reconnaissance (impactor)

Uncrewed satellite program

Venus orbiter

Vesta/Ceres orbiter