The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. See amazing photos of NASA’s Orion space capsule for deep-space missions to an asteroid, the moon or even Mars. NERVA Spacecraft. The spacecraft design for the Mars Science Laboratory mission is based largely on the successful twin Viking landers sent to Mars in the 1970s. Browse spacecraft design pictures, photos, images, GIFs, and videos on Photobucket The rover design is based on the Mars Exploration Rovers, which landed on Mars in early 2004. The Juno spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas V-551 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Aug. 5, 2011, and will reach Jupiter in July 2016. Built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), it was part of the Cassini–Huygens mission and became the first spacecraft to land on Titan and the farthest landing from Earth a spacecraft has ever made. 29. Two nuclear powered NERVA spacecraft being assembled in orbit, with the crew being ferried with an early design space shuttle, for the journey to Mars. The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter 32 times, skimming to within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops, for approximately one year. 30. Orion's first flight test, Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), launched on Dec. 5, 2014, allowing engineers to evaluate the systems critical to crew safety, the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. Orion is NASA's new exploration spacecraft, designed to carry astronauts to destinations in deep space, including an asteroid and Mars. The system for entry, descent, and landing is entirely new. See swirling cloud formations in the northern area of Jupiter’s north temperate belt in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Although their original mission was to study only the planetary systems of Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 2 continued on to Uranus and Neptune. Adrian Mann . This extraordinary view of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on the outbound leg of its 12th close flyby of the gas giant planet. Huygens was an atmospheric entry probe that landed successfully on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005. Orion Spacecraft The European Space Agency provides Orion’s service module.