Prompt 5 of 7
Name a space mission or program
88 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answerShow answersHide answers
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Zond— A near-forgotten Soviet program that flew tortoises around the Moon in 1968, the first animals to circle another world and return alive.
85 ptsDeep Cut56 answersShow answersHide answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Apollo-Soyuz
- BepiColombo
- Blue Ghost
- Buran— The Soviet shuttle. Flew once, uncrewed, perfectly — then never again.
- Chandra
- Chandrayaan— India's lunar program, first to land near the Moon's south pole.
- Chang'e— China's lunar program, the first to land on the Moon's far side.
- Constellation— NASA's canceled return-to-the-Moon program of the 2000s.
- Crew Dragon
- DART— Deliberately crashed into an asteroid to nudge its orbit.
- Dawn
- Deep Impact
- Europa Clipper
- ExoMars
- Explorer 1
- Gaia
- Genesis
- Hayabusa
- Ingenuity
- InSight
- Inspiration4
- JUICE
- Lucy
- Luna
- Lunar Gateway
- Magellan
- Mangalyaan— India reached Mars orbit on the first try, on a budget smaller than the movie Gravity's.
- Mariner
- Mars Express
- MAVEN
- Messenger
- New Shepard
- Odysseus— The first commercial Moon landing, 2024. Tipped over and kept transmitting anyway.
- Orion
- OSIRIS-REx
- Parker Solar Probe
- Pathfinder
- Psyche
- Ranger
- Rosetta— Landed a probe on a comet in 2014.
- Salyut
- Shenzhou
- SOHO
- Spirit
- Spitzer
- Stardust
- Starliner
- Surveyor
- TESS
- Tiangong
- Tianwen
- Ulysses
- Vanguard
- Vega
- Venera— The Soviet Venus program, the only craft to survive on that hellish surface.
- Voskhod
60 ptsRare19 answersShow answersHide answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Cassini
- Challenger
- Columbia
- Curiosity
- Galileo
- Gemini
- Juno
- Kepler
- Mercury
- Mir
- New Horizons— Flew past Pluto in 2015.
- Opportunity
- Perseverance
- Pioneer
- Skylab
- Soyuz
- Starlink
- Starship
- Viking
30 ptsSchooler8 answersShow answersHide answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Apollo 13— Houston, we have a plankton-adjacent answer.
- Hubble
- International Space Station
- James Webb
- Mars Rover
- Space Shuttle
- Sputnik
- Voyager
15 ptsToo Clever1 answerShow answersHide answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Vostok— Gagarin's ride. The 'first human in space, actually' flex, deployed on schedule.
10 ptsPlankton3 answersShow answersHide answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Apollo
- Apollo 11
- Artemis