Launched in April 1972, Apollo 16 carried astronauts John Young and Charles Duke to the Moon's Descartes Highlands where they conducted three EVAs, collected 95.8 kg of lunar samples, and set a lunar land speed record of 17.1 km/h in their rover.

A space probe launched in 2011 that entered Jupiter's orbit in 2016, where it continues to study the gas giant's composition, gravitational field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere while completing elongated orbits every 53 days.

A lunar mission launched in 1970 that suffered a near-catastrophic oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, forcing the crew to abort their landing and return safely to Earth after a harrowing journey around the lunar far side.