Ariel was the United Kingdom's first satellite, making the UK the third country with hardware on orbit.

Alouette (French for Skylark) was Canada's first satellite, and the first satellite not built by the US or USSR.

Named after Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone, the Giotto spacecraft was designed to study Halley's Comet during its 1986 visit to the inner Solar System.

Diwata-1 was not the Philippines first satellite (which was the commercial Agila-1, launched as an Indonesian satellite and bought on orbit), but it was the first satellite designed and built by the country.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) are rockets developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). PSLV is mainly used to launch into sun-synchronous orbits, with GSLV launching into geosynchronous orbits.

Skylab was an American space station launched in 1973 which hosted three three-crew missions lasting until 1974, and de-orbited in 1979. It was built out of an empty Saturn S-IVB third stage, which position it took on its Saturn V launch vehicle.

Part of the Air Force and NASA Pioneer program, Pioneer 4 was the second of two Juno II launched moon missions.

Conceived as the first mission in the Mars Environmental SURvey (MESUR) program but developed as the second Discovery mission, the Sojourner rover was built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

On July 28, 1999, a test vehicle for the projected Roton rocket, called the Atmospheric Test Vehicle, took to the sky powered by the salvaged, rocket-tipped blades of a Sikorsky S-58 rotor.

To test the Orion Launch Abort System (LAS), a capsule test article was placed on top of an old SR-118 Peacekeeper first stage powered by a TU-903 motor, and launched on July 2, 2019.

Meet Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik Unifitsirovannyy-1 Geofizicheskiy, or DS-U1-G for friends. It was part of the DS standardized series of Soviet satellites designed and built by the Ukrainian OKB-586 or later Yuzhnoye Design Office, and used for geophysical research.

Development on the Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata (European Vector of Advanced Generation) or Vega rocket began in 1988 by ESA and the ASI, with first fight occuring on February 13, 2012.

In 1962 with the creation of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), plans for the Europa I rocket were announced. It would re-use the cancelled British Blue Streak IRBM, and after 4 R&D flights the first fully stacked Europa rocket flew on November 29, 1968.

To test the new Coralie second stage for the ELDO Europa rocket, the Cora test vehicle was launched 3 times with dummy Astris upper stage. Only one launch was succesful. Flights with an active Astris upper stage were cancelled.

On march 19, 1992 at the Salto di Quirra weapons testing range on Sardinia, a test-vehicle named SXB3 was launched consisting of a modified PAP P9.5 solid-fulled strap-on booster with two dummy side boosters.

After the Agate, Topaz, Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire sounding rockets, Diamant-A, the first French orbital rocket, was launched on November 26th, 1965. It carried Astérix, the first French (and first non US or USSR launched) satellite.

Worked on by several engineers of, and inspired by the DC-XA, the PM1 (Propulsion Module 1) and PM2 were early prototypes for the Blue Origin New Shepard (PM3) suborbital re-usable launch vehicle.

This is astronaut Dale Gardner in his EMU (Extravehicular Mobility Unit) flying his MMU (Manned Maneuvering Unit) No. 3.

Designed in 1957 at NACA's Langley Research Center and contracted to Vought, later LTV, the first Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test system, or Scout, flew on April 18, 1960.

The Thor-Delta family of rockets first launched in 1958 and lofted a multitude of satellites, space probes and spacecraft. It evolved from the PGM-17 Thor IRBM booster into the Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle.

Starting out as the Lockheed Launch Vehicle (LLV), later renamed the Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle (LMLV), the Athena rocket family is a solid-fuel rocket system.

The Minotaur (and Taurus) rocket family, derived from refurbished Minuteman II and Peacekeeper ICBMs, was produced by the Orbital Sciences Corporation.

Voted Most Patchy of all rocket families, the first ICBM based, Martin built Titan-2 vehicle launched the Gemini 1 test capsule on April 8, 1964.

On December 14, 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt fired the 'Challenger' LM's Lunar Module Ascent Engine and became the last persons to walk on the Moon.

On July 6, 2016, Masten Space Systems introduced their newest Vertical Take-off Vertical Landing testbed called XA-0.1-E-5, or Xodiac.

Two probes within NASA's Mariner program, headed for Jupiter and Saturn, evolved into the Voyager probes. Like Pioneers 10 & 11 they were powered by a Star-37E solid rocket motor, which would propel them beyond the solar heliopause.

Formally initiated by the ASI and CIRA in 2005, a Vega rocket was launched in February 2015 by ESA and ASI carrying the Thales Alenia Space built Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle on a suborbital trajectory.

After the failure of ELDO's Europa rocket and the formation of ESA, France, Germany and the UK started development on the Lanceur de 3e Génération de Substitution (L3S) program, later renamed Ariane, in 1973.

Up until now Black Arrow was the first and only successful British orbital rocket.

In 1995 NASA was handed over the DC-X test program from the Department of Defense's Strategic Defense Initiative Organisation. It was a prototype for a larger single-stage-to-orbit vehicle and was build by McDonnell Douglas.

The Atlas rockets were a Convair development of the SM-65 Atlas missile, which was first tested on December 17, 1957. Having no inherent structural stability, the core sustainer stage needed to be pressurized when vertical.

On December 7 1972 astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt left earth orbit in their 'America' Command and Service Module, and 3 days later, arrived at the moon. Cernan and Schmitt would continue in the 'Challenger' Lunar Module and land at the Taurus–Littrow valley.

Developed in the 90s by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and flown for the first time September 10th, 2009, the HTV would fly resupply missions to the ISS and the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module (JEM).

On December 6th, 2015 Orbital ATK launched the first Enhanced version of their Cygnus resuply spacecraft towards the International Space Station. 17 Cygnus craft were launched, with 1 failure, and 8 more planned through 2026.