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  "title": "Landmark Space Missions",
  "description": "Landmark space missions with their agency, launch year, type, and key achievement.",
  "emoji": "🚀",
  "license": "GPL-2.0-or-later",
  "count": 25,
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  },
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    "agency",
    "id",
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    "name",
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      "id": "sputnik-1",
      "name": "Sputnik 1",
      "agency": "USSR",
      "launch_year": 1957,
      "type": "Probe",
      "achievement": "First artificial satellite to orbit Earth.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/sputnik-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "vostok-1",
      "name": "Vostok 1",
      "agency": "USSR",
      "launch_year": 1961,
      "type": "Crewed",
      "achievement": "Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "mercury-friendship-7",
      "name": "Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1962,
      "type": "Crewed",
      "achievement": "John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "luna-9",
      "name": "Luna 9",
      "agency": "USSR",
      "launch_year": 1966,
      "type": "Lunar",
      "achievement": "First soft landing on the Moon.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "apollo-11",
      "name": "Apollo 11",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1969,
      "type": "Lunar",
      "achievement": "First crewed Moon landing; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "apollo-13",
      "name": "Apollo 13",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1970,
      "type": "Lunar",
      "achievement": "Aborted Moon mission; crew survived after an in-flight explosion.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "pioneer-10",
      "name": "Pioneer 10",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1972,
      "type": "Planetary",
      "achievement": "First spacecraft to fly by Jupiter.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "viking-1-mission",
      "name": "Viking 1",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1975,
      "type": "Planetary",
      "achievement": "First US spacecraft to land successfully on Mars.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "voyager-1",
      "name": "Voyager 1",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1977,
      "type": "Probe",
      "achievement": "Farthest human-made object; first to enter interstellar space.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/voyager-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "voyager-2",
      "name": "Voyager 2",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1977,
      "type": "Probe",
      "achievement": "Only spacecraft to fly by all four giant planets.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/voyager-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "sts-1",
      "name": "STS-1 (Space Shuttle Columbia)",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1981,
      "type": "Crewed",
      "achievement": "First orbital flight of the reusable Space Shuttle.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/sts-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "hubble-mission",
      "name": "Hubble Space Telescope",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1990,
      "type": "Telescope",
      "achievement": "Space telescope that transformed observational astronomy.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "mars-pathfinder",
      "name": "Mars Pathfinder",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1996,
      "type": "Planetary",
      "achievement": "Delivered the first rover, Sojourner, to Mars.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/mars-pathfinder"
    },
    {
      "id": "iss",
      "name": "International Space Station",
      "agency": "International",
      "launch_year": 1998,
      "type": "Station",
      "achievement": "Largest crewed structure in space; continuously inhabited since 2000.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/iss"
    },
    {
      "id": "cassini-huygens",
      "name": "Cassini-Huygens",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 1997,
      "type": "Planetary",
      "achievement": "Orbited Saturn and landed the Huygens probe on Titan.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/cassini-huygens"
    },
    {
      "id": "spirit-opportunity",
      "name": "Mars Exploration Rovers",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 2003,
      "type": "Planetary",
      "achievement": "Spirit and Opportunity found evidence of past water on Mars.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/spirit-opportunity"
    },
    {
      "id": "new-horizons",
      "name": "New Horizons",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 2006,
      "type": "Probe",
      "achievement": "First spacecraft to fly by Pluto.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/new-horizons"
    },
    {
      "id": "kepler-mission",
      "name": "Kepler",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 2009,
      "type": "Telescope",
      "achievement": "Discovered thousands of exoplanets via the transit method.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/kepler-mission"
    },
    {
      "id": "curiosity-mission",
      "name": "Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity)",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 2011,
      "type": "Planetary",
      "achievement": "Advanced rover assessing Mars' past habitability in Gale Crater.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/curiosity-mission"
    },
    {
      "id": "rosetta",
      "name": "Rosetta",
      "agency": "ESA",
      "launch_year": 2004,
      "type": "Probe",
      "achievement": "First mission to orbit a comet and land a probe on it.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/rosetta"
    },
    {
      "id": "juno",
      "name": "Juno",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 2011,
      "type": "Planetary",
      "achievement": "Orbiter studying Jupiter's composition, gravity, and magnetic field.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/juno"
    },
    {
      "id": "chang-e-4",
      "name": "Chang'e 4",
      "agency": "CNSA",
      "launch_year": 2018,
      "type": "Lunar",
      "achievement": "First soft landing on the far side of the Moon.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/chang-e-4"
    },
    {
      "id": "jwst-mission",
      "name": "James Webb Space Telescope",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 2021,
      "type": "Telescope",
      "achievement": "Most powerful infrared space telescope ever launched.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/jwst-mission"
    },
    {
      "id": "perseverance-mission",
      "name": "Mars 2020 (Perseverance)",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 2020,
      "type": "Planetary",
      "achievement": "Deployed the Ingenuity helicopter and cached samples for future return.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/perseverance-mission"
    },
    {
      "id": "artemis-1",
      "name": "Artemis 1",
      "agency": "NASA",
      "launch_year": 2022,
      "type": "Lunar",
      "achievement": "First integrated test of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon.",
      "url": "https://gratisapi.com/api/space-missions/artemis-1"
    }
  ]
}