What is the greatest crewed space mission of all time?

Moon landings, first orbits, and dramatic rescues — these missions pushed humanity's boundaries in vastly different ways. Which one matters most?

1. 1
   Voskhod 2

   Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the world's first spacewalk on March 18, 1965, spending 12 minutes outside the capsule in a near-fatal EVA.
   1000pts

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2. 2
   Vostok 1

   Yuri Gagarin's 108-minute orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961 — the first time a human being traveled to space.
   839pts
3. 3
   Apollo 11

   The first mission to land humans on the Moon, fulfilling President Kennedy's challenge and marking humanity's greatest exploratory achievement.
   732pts
4. 4
   Apollo 17

   The final Moon landing mission carried the last humans to walk on the lunar surface and returned the most lunar samples of any Apollo mission.
   599pts
5. 5
   ISS Expedition 1

   The first long-duration crew to live aboard the International Space Station, beginning a continuous human presence in space that has lasted over two decades.
   599pts
6. 6
   Mercury Freedom 7

   Alan Shepard's 15-minute suborbital flight on May 5, 1961 made him the first American in space, just three weeks after Yuri Gagarin's orbit.
   599pts
7. 7
   STS-1 Columbia

   The inaugural Space Shuttle mission in April 1981 proved that a winged, reusable spacecraft could reach orbit and land like an airplane.
   428pts
8. 8
   Skylab 2

   The first crew to inhabit America's Skylab space station rescued the station itself, repairing damage sustained during launch and paving the way for long-duration spaceflight.
   428pts
9. 9
   Apollo 13

   A crippled Moon mission that became NASA's finest hour as engineers and astronauts improvised a safe return to Earth after an oxygen tank exploded.
   428pts
10. 10
    Gemini 4

    Ed White became the first American to walk in space during this 1965 mission, spending 23 minutes tethered outside the spacecraft.
    428pts
11. 11
    STS-135 Atlantis

    The 135th and final Space Shuttle mission closed out 30 years of the shuttle program when Atlantis landed on July 21, 2011.
    428pts
12. 12
    SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2

    The first commercial crewed spaceflight sent NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon in 2020, ending a 9-year gap in US human spaceflight.
    428pts