Interactive atlas · 1957–2026
The history of spaceflight
Every programme as a bar, every mission as a mark. See what ran side by side, who raced whom and where programmes broke off.
How to read it
Bars, marks and colours
A bar is a programme from start to end. Thicker means more significant; hatched means cancelled. Colour marks the actor.
- crewed flight, launch
- probe, orbiter
- lander, rover
- satellite, telescope
- station module
- resupply flight
- test flight
- failure
Click a bar to unfold its missions. Click a mission mark to open its detail.
- Programmes
- 144
- Missions
- 793
- Actors
- 10
- Main axis
- 1957–2026
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