space mission
Crewed voyage above
A space mission is an organized undertaking to send spacecraft, satellites, or people beyond Earth's atmosphere for exploration, research, or other purposes.
Missions range from satellite deployments to crewed expeditions: the Apollo space missions, a mission to Mars.
The term covers the entire operation from launch through completion of objectives.
- ground controlEarth-based flight management
- astronautSpacecraft crew member
- moon shotSpacecraft voyage to Luna
- splashdownSpacecraft's water landing
- NASAFederal space exploration bureau
capsule · countdown clock · extravehicular · Voyager · moon · payload capacity · human spaceflight · orbital mechanics · Cape Canaveral · interplanetary travel · solar system · orbiter · Mars · booster · life support systems · touchdown · docking · Houston
- exploratory venturesexpedition, voyage, safari, trek, quest
- spacesun, moon, stars, star, Earth
- Adventuresadventure, expedition, exploration, exploring, journey
- Expeditionsexpedition, Antarctic expedition, Arctic expedition, expeditions, Arctic exploration
- launcheslaunch, launched, rocket launch, blast off, satellite launch
- scientific researchresearch, experiment, study, lab experiments, field studies
space, mission, spaceship, spacecraft, missions, spaceman, spaceport, spacemen, spacesuit