Earth
celestial targetCelestial target
Earth is retained as a celestial target in the planetary exploration collection. 209 current mission dossiers explicitly identify Earth as a destination or target.
- Science area
- planetary
- Related records
- 209
209 related records 426 sources
Full sunlit disk of Earth with the Americas, blue oceans, white cloud systems, and black space visible.
Credit: NASA/DSCOVR EPIC team. License: NASA media usage guidelines.
Image source and licenseAbout this image
Earth's entire sunlit side observed by DSCOVR's EPIC camera on July 6, 2015; this color view combines the instrument's red, green, and blue bands.
What this record covers
- Science area
- planetary
- Connected records
- 209
Classification and identifiers3 fields
Catalog and authority identifiers are preserved here for readers who need to reconcile this record with another archive.
- Record class
- Celestial target
- Lifecycle
- Not applicable
- iau designation
- Earth
Connected archive records
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Sources and further reading
- NASA: Soviets Select Their First CosmonautsNASA
- NASA: Early Space StationsNASA
- NASA Mir Hardware Heritage, Part 1 — Soyuz and ProgressNASA
- NASA History: Human SpaceflightNASA
- NASA SP-4014: Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 crew transferNASA
- NASA SP-2010-578: NASA Astronauts on SoyuzNASA
- NASA: Soyuz 6, 7, and 8 Troika flightNASA
- NASA Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1965NASA Technical Reports Server
- NASA Aeronautics and Space Report of the President, 1974NASA Technical Reports Server
- NASA: Human Factors in Long-Duration Space FlightNASA Technical Reports Server
- NASA Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1964NASA Technical Reports Server
- Voskhod 1 official development-flight photographWikimedia Commons / Science Museum display
- Voskhod 1 institutional photograph provenanceScience Museum
- CNSA: Shenzhou XChina National Space Administration
- China Manned Space: MissionsChina Manned Space Agency
- China Manned Space: Shenzhou Spacecraft SystemChina Manned Space Agency
- NASA: Soviets Return Cosmonauts to SpaceNASA
- Vostok 2 official development-flight photographWikimedia Commons / Moscow Main Archive
- Vostok 2 institutional photograph provenanceMoscow Main Archive
- Shenzhou 7 official development-flight photographWikimedia Commons rights-reviewed institutional source
- NASA Mir Hardware Heritage, Part 2 — Almaz, Salyut, and MirNASA
- Vostok 4 official development-flight photographWikimedia Commons / NASA
- Vostok 4 institutional photograph provenanceNASA Great Images
- Vostok 6 official development-flight photographWikimedia Commons / Moscow Main Archive
- Vostok 6 institutional photograph provenanceMoscow Main Archive
- NASA Safety Center launch-vehicle chronology: R-7 and Soyuz flightsNASA
- NASA Safety Center: Soyuz 1 significant incident recordNASA
- Vostok 1 official development-flight photographWikimedia Commons / Russian Ministry of Defense
- Vostok 1 institutional photograph provenanceRussian Ministry of Defense
- NASA: Dawn of the Space AgeNASA
- NASA Science: Earth Science MissionsNASA
- NASA Science: Hubble Space Telescope ObservatoryNASA
- NASA: The Great ObservatoriesNASA
- NASA Science: James Webb Space TelescopeNASA
- NASA Science: Cosmic Origins and Survey MissionsNASA
- NASA HEASARC: Small Astronomy Satellite Series: SAS-3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- NASA HEASARC: Small Astronomy Satellite SeriesNASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- NASA: Historical Origins of the ISSNASA
- Boeing Orbital Flight Test official NASA image recordNASA Image and Video Library
- NASA: Starliner OFT-2NASA
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