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Mission press kits
An incomplete list of agency-created press kits for different mission events...
Inner Solar System Missions
- SMART-1 launch (June 2002)
- MESSENGER launch (August 2004) - Mercury Flyby 1 (January 2008) - Flyby 2 (October 2008) - Flyby 3 (September 2009) - Arrival (March 2011)
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / LCROSS launch (June 2009)
- GRAIL launch (August 2011)
Mars Missions
- Viking (February 1975)
- Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Pathfinder, and Mars 96 launch (November 1996)
- Mars Pathfinder Landing (July 1997)
- Mars Global Surveyor arrival (September 1997)
- Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter launch (December 1998)
- Mars Climate Orbiter arrival (September 1999)
- Mars Polar Lander/Deep Space 2 landing (December 1999)
- 2001 Mars Odyssey launch (April 2001) - Arrival (October 2001)
- Mars Express 10th anniversary (June 2013)
- Mars Exploration Rover launches (June 2003) - Landings (January 2004)
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launch - Arrival (March 2006)
- Phoenix launch (August 2007) - Landing (May 2008)
- Mars Science Laboratory launch - Landing (July 2012)
- Mars Orbiter Mission launch (PSLV) (November 2013)
- MAVEN launch (Atlas V) (November 2013)
Outer Planets and Small Bodies Missions
- Voyager launch (August 1977)
- Galileo launch on STS-34 (October 1989) - Jupiter Arrival (December 1995) - End of Mission (September 2003)
- Cassini launch (October 1997) - Jupiter flyby (October 2000) - Saturn arrival (June 2004)
- Deep Space 1 launch (October 1998) - Braille flyby (July 1999)
- Stardust launch (February 1999) - Wild 2 flyby (January 2004) - Sample return (January 2006) - Tempel 1 flyby (February 2011)
- Genesis launch (July 2001) - Sample Return (September 2004)
- Deep Impact launch (January 2005) - Tempel 1 encounter (June 2005)
- New Horizons launch (January 2006) - Jupiter flyby (February 2007)
- Dawn launch (September 2007) - at Vesta (July 2011)
- Juno launch (August 2011)
Exoplanets, Astronomy, and Astrophysics
- Space Infrared Telescope Facility [Spitzer] launch (August 2003)
- Kepler launch (February 2009)
- WISE launch (December 2009)
- NuSTAR launch (June 2012)
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