Outline of space exploration

Essence of space exploration

• Big Science
• Exploration
• High tech
• Space
• Spaceflight

  Branches of space exploration

• Human spaceflight
• Uncrewed spaceflight

  History of space exploration

• Remote sensing of Earth
• Exploration of the Moon
• * Apollo program
• * Moon landings
• * Robotic exploration of the Moon
• Exploration of Mercury
• Exploration of Venus
• Exploration of Mars
• * Mars landings
• * Mars rovers
• Exploration of Jupiter
• Exploration of Saturn
• Exploration of Uranus
• Exploration of Neptune
• History of human spaceflight
• * Project Mercury
• * Project Gemini
• * Apollo program
• * Space Shuttle program
• * Vostok program
• * Voskhod program
• * Soyuz program
• * Shenzhou program
• List of human spaceflights
• Spaceflight records
• Emergence of market forces in spaceflight
• Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes
• Timeline of astronauts by nationality
• Timeline of Earth science satellites
• Timeline of first orbital launches by country
• Timeline of rocket and missile technology
• Timeline of space exploration
• Timeline of Space Shuttle missions
• Timeline of space travel by nationality
• Timeline of spaceflight
• Timeline of the Space Race
• Timeline of Solar System exploration

  Space agencies

• List of government space agencies
• * Space agencies capable of human spaceflight
• ** NASA
• ** RFSA
• ** CNSA
• * Space agencies with full launch capability
• ** NASA
• ** RFSA
• ** CNSA
• ** ESA
• ** JAXA
• ** ISRO
• ** ISA

  Active space missions

• International Space Station
• Chandrayaan-2
• Chang'e 4
• Mars Odyssey
• Mars Express - ESA satellite orbiting Mars
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
• Mars Science Laboratory - NASA rover to Mars
• MAVEN - NASA satellite orbiting Mars
• Mars Orbiter Mission - satellite orbiting Mars
• ExoMars - Mars mission
• InSight
• Emirates Mars Mission
• Tianwen-1
• Akatsuki - JAXA satellite orbiting Venus
• BepiColombo
• Parker Solar Probe - NASA probe to Sun
• Hayabusa2 - sample return mission to asteroid Ryugu
• OSIRIS-REx - sample return mission to asteroid Bennu
• Juno - NASA satellite orbiting Jupiter
• New Horizons - probe to Pluto
• Voyager - probe to outer Solar System and interstellar space

  Future of space exploration

• Future lunar missions
• Colonization of the Moon
• Lunar outpost

• Sundiver

• Colonization of Mercury

• Exploration of Venus

• Colonization of Mars
• Human mission to Mars
• Mars to Stay

• Colonization of the outer Solar System
• * Colonization of Titan

• Interstellar travel
• * Nuclear rocket
• * Fusion rocket
• * Solar sail
• * Einstein-Rosen bridge
• * Alcubierre drive
• Intergalactic travel

  General space exploration concepts

• Astronaut
• Non-rocket spacelaunch
• Space and survival
• Spacecraft
• Spaceflight
• Space exploration
• Space research
• Space science

  Space exploration scholars

Leaders in space exploration

• Yuri Gagarin - first man in space
• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin - first men to walk on the Moon
• John Glenn - oldest man in orbit