Asteroid

OSIRIS REX

Future Launch 2016

Strofio Instrument

Mercury Orbiter

Future Launch

2014Arrives @

Mercury

2020

Sample Collection

Stardust

NASA Collects Samples at Comet Wild 2

Comet W

ild 2

01/02/2004

Sample Return

Stardust

Comet

01/15/2006

Sample Return

Genesis

Returned to Earth with Sun Particles

Sun

09/08/2004

Capsule lands in Utah

NEAR

Lander

Landed on Eros

Asteroid02/12/2001

PathfinderSojourner arrives

RoverMars 07/04/1997

Genesis Sun 08/08/2001

DawnNASA Asteroid orbiter

Asteroids 06/2007

NEAREros Asteroid 02/17/1996

KeplerEarth-Like Planet HunterEarth trailing orbit 03/05/2009 GR

AIL

Moo

n20

11

Lunar ProspectorM

oon01/06/1998

Pathfinder RoverMars 12/04/1996

ContourComet

Launched – 07/03/2002Lost contact – 08/15/2002

New HorizonsNASA – Pluto – Kuiper Belt FlybyPluto 01/19/2006

MESSENGERNASA Mercury orbiterMercury 08/03/2004

Failed Mission

Star

dust

Com

et02

/07/

1999

Deep Impact

Comet

01/12/2005N

ASA Comet Excavator

MESSENGERMercury 09/29/2009

3rd Mercury Pass

Dawn

Mars

02/04/2009

Mars gravity assist

MESSENGERMercury 01/14/2008

1st Mercury Pass

MESSENGERMercury 10/06/2008

2nd Mercury Pass

MESSENGER06/05/2007

Venus Flyby 2

MESSENGER10/24/2006

Venus Flyby 1

Deep Impact-EPOXIComet 11/04/2010

Hartley 2

New Horizons

JupiterFly-by

02/28/2007

New Frontier Mission

New

Hor

izons

Plut

o07

/201

5

New

Fro

ntier

Miss

ion

Plu

to

Enco

unte

r

EPOXIMission Start

Comet 09/26/2007

NEAREros Rendezvous

Asteroid 02/14/2000

Dawn

Asteroid Vesta

08/2011

Dawn

Asteroid/ Dwarf PlanetCeres

02/2015

Lunar Prospector

Moon 1998

GRAILDual orbiters

“Ebb” and “ Flow”

Moon 01/2012

MESSENGERMercury Orbit Insertion

Mercury 03/14/2011

Kepler

Seeking Extrasolar

Planets

04/08/09

Orbiting the Sun in Earth’s orbit

Deep ImpactComet

NASA Excavates Tempel 1

07/04/2005

Lunar ProspectorCrash Landing

07/31/1999Moon