| Year of Launch and Milestone Achieved | Name of Probe |
|---|
| 1957 USSR : First manmade object to orbit the earth | |
| 1959 USSR: First craft to photograph the Moon's far side | |
| 1960 USA: First craft to photograph global cloudcover | |
| 1966 USSR: First craft to soft-land on the Moon | |
| 1972 USA: First craft to photograph Jupiter,enter Neptune's orbit and actually exit the solar system | |
| 1973 USA: First craft to visit more than one interplanetary body (Mercury & Venus) | |
| 1975 USSR: First craft to transmit panoramic television pictures from the surface of Venus | |
| 1975 USA: First craft to transmit live pictures from the surface of Mars | |
| 1977 USA: Discovered rings around Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, numerous new moons, and took pictures looking back from more than 4 billion miles out | |
| 1985 European Space Agency: First probe to get close-up color images of the nucleus of a comet (Halley's) | |
| 1989 USA: First probe launched from a shuttle (Atlantis), it was made almost completely from spare parts of other spacecraft | |
| 1996 USA: First craft to successfully deploy a rover on Mars | |
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