Agency record
NASA
Every figure on this page is counted from the committed mission records that list NASA among their agencies. None of them is maintained by hand.
Derived figures
Missions listing NASA
- Committed missions
- 52
- First launch
- Latest launch
- Concluded missions
- 45
- Recorded a success
- 25
- Success rate
- 56%
Active missions are excluded from the success rate: a live mission has no outcome yet, so counting it would report a rate the records do not support. 7 of the 52 records are still active, leaving 45 concluded. A partial success is a distinct recorded outcome, so it is not counted in the numerator, but it stays in the denominator.
| Decade | Missions launched |
|---|---|
| 1950s | |
| 1960s | |
| 1970s | |
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| 2010s | |
| 2020s |
Where they went
Destinations
A mission with several destinations is counted under each of them, so these figures need not add up to 52.
What they did
Mission types
- Orbiter
- 23
- Lander
- 18
- Crewed
- 9
- Flyby
- 8
- Impactor
- 7
- Technology demonstrator
- 3
- Atmospheric probe
- 2
- Heliophysics
- 2
- Interstellar
- 2
- Sample return
- 2
- Rover
- 1
A mission can carry several types, so these figures need not add up either. Types no mission here carries are omitted.
How they ended
Outcomes
- Success
- 25
- Partial success
- 5
- Failure
- 15
- Active
- 7
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These records in the directory
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