Top 10 Space Missions That Rewrote History

NASA's Apollo 11 mission, launched on July 16, 1969, was the first to land astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface while Michael Collins orbited above.

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space in 2012, providing invaluable data about the outer solar system and beyond.

Hubble's deep-field images revealed thousands of distant galaxies, helped determine the age of the universe (13.8 billion years), and provided evidence for dark energy and the accelerating expansion of the cosmos.

NASA's Mariner 9, arriving in 1971, was the first spacecraft to orbit Mars, mapping 85% of its surface and discovering volcanoes, canyons, and evidence of past water flow.

The ISS, continuously occupied since 2000, serves as a microgravity laboratory for scientific research, international collaboration, and testing technologies for future deep-space missions to the Moon and Mars.