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Soviet space program
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Vostok 1
Soviet space program
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Mercury-Redstone 3
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q498406
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q221678
Vostok 2
Soviet space program
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Vostok 3
Soviet space program
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Soviet space program
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q18775
Mars 2MV-3 No.1
null
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Mercury-Atlas 9
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Vostok 5
Soviet space program
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Vostok 6
Soviet space program
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Gemini 1
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Voskhod 1
Soviet space program
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Mariner 3
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Zond 2
null
Q113149745
Atlas Centaur 4
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q739203
Gemini 2
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q722791
Voskhod 2
Soviet space program
Q682628
Gemini 3
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q747769
Gemini 4
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q725849
Gemini 5
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Gemini 7
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Gemini 6A
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Gemini 8
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Soyuz 1
Soviet space program
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Soviet space program
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Cosmos 188
Soviet space program
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Apollo 4
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Apollo 5
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Q222871
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Kosmos 212
Soviet space program
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Kosmos 213
Soviet space program
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Kosmos 238
Soviet space program
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Apollo 7
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Soviet space program
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Soyuz 3
Soviet space program
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Soyuz 4
Soviet space program
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Soyuz 5
Soviet space program
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Soyuz 6
Soviet space program
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Soyuz 7
Soviet space program
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Soyuz 8
Soviet space program
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Soyuz 9
Soviet space program
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Apollo 14
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Soyuz 10
Soviet space program
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Soyuz 11
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Apollo 15
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q188168
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Apollo 17
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Apollo 19
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Apollo 18
null
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Apollo 20
null
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Skylab 1
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q684467
Skylab 2
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q1785053
Kosmos 573
Soviet space program
Q1052421
Skylab 3
null
Q543643
Soyuz 12
Soviet space program
Q1239477
Skylab 4
null
Q1785056
Kosmos 613
Soviet space program
Q841182
Soyuz 13
Soviet space program
Q2989267
Skylab 5
null
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Kosmos 638
Soviet space program
Q545595
Soyuz 14
Soviet space program
Q1785062
Kosmos 672
Soviet space program
Q836053
Soyuz 15
Soviet space program
Q847013
Soyuz 16
Soviet space program
Q531246
Soyuz 17
Soviet space program
Q902812
Soyuz 7K-T No.39
Soviet space program
Q682890
Soyuz 18
Soviet space program
Q1724109
Soyuz 19
Soviet space program
Q210199
Viking 1
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q212131
Viking 2
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Q1770788
Kosmos 772
Soviet space program
Q846412
Soyuz 20
Soviet space program
Q426781
Soyuz 21
Soviet space program
Q285802
Soyuz 22
Soviet space program
Q509384
Soyuz 23
Soviet space program
Q903796
Soyuz 24
Soviet space program
Q846547
Soyuz 25
Soviet space program
Q847024
Soyuz 26
Soviet space program
Q1318535
Salyut 6 EO-1
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Space Missions Database

Part of the Orbital Mechanics Datasets collection on Hugging Face.

Comprehensive database of 25,137 space missions — both crewed and uncrewed — sourced from Wikidata.

Dataset description

This dataset draws on Wikidata's structured knowledge base using three entity types: space missions (Q2133344), crewed spaceflights (Q1248784), and uncrewed spaceflights (Q12795915). It is maintained by the WikiProject Spaceflight community and updated as new missions are flown and documented.

Note: Wikidata coverage is uneven — most entries have only a name and Wikidata ID. Columns with <5% data coverage are automatically dropped during pipeline processing.

Schema

Column Type Description
wikidata_id string Wikidata entity ID (e.g. Q183294)
name string Mission name
operator string Operating agency or organization (~13% coverage)

Additional columns (launch_date, destination, etc.) appear when Wikidata coverage exceeds 5%.

Quick stats

  • 25,137 total missions in the database
  • Top operators: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (202), Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (149), Airports Authority of India (109), Soviet space program (93), Roscosmos State Corporation (85)

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("juliensimon/space-missions", split="train")
df = ds.to_pandas()

# Missions by operator
if "operator" in df.columns:
    print(df["operator"].value_counts().head(10))

# List all missions
print(df[["name", "wikidata_id"]].head(20))

Data source

Wikidata SPARQL endpoint. Missions identified via:

  • Q2133344 (space mission, including subclasses)
  • Q1248784 (crewed spaceflight)
  • Q12795915 (uncrewed spaceflight)

Data is community-curated by WikiProject Spaceflight.

Update schedule

Quarterly (January, April, July, October).

Related datasets

Pipeline

Source code: juliensimon/space-datasets

Support

If you find this dataset useful, please give it a ❤️ on the dataset page and share feedback in the Community tab! Also consider giving a ⭐️ to the space-datasets repo.

Citation

@dataset{space_missions,
  author = {Simon, Julien},
  title = {Space Missions Database},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/space-missions},
  note = {Sourced from Wikidata (CC0)}
}

License

CC0-1.0 (Wikidata content is public domain)

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