On August 17, 1958, Pioneer 0 rose from Cape Canaveral and exploded 73.6 seconds after liftoff. That failed launch begins the 123-entry record used here, which runs through the successful Artemis II crewed lunar flyby in April 2026. Between those dates, the Moon changed from a destination no spacecraft had reached into a mapped, sampled, instrumented, and repeatedly visited world.
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