In an uncrewed test flight, SpaceX SpaceX Dragon 2 successfully flew on a Falcon 9 to the International Space Station on 3 March 2019 the crewed mission was delayed when the recovered capsule exploded during testing on 20 April. The first Commercial Crew Development test missions flew this year, aiming to restore United States human spaceflight capability following Space Shuttle retirement in 2011. > The InSight lander observed the first recorded Marsquake in April. NASA declared the Mars rover Opportunity's mission over on 13 February. The Japanese asteroid exploration mission Hayabusa2 made a second touchdown with 162173 Ryugu to collect samples, and departed for Earth on 12 November. This is the farthest object from the Sun ever to have a close encounter with a spacecraft.
The probe New Horizons encountered the Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth on 1 January. India launched the delayed Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter/lander/rover in July the orbiter reached lunar orbit in September, but the Vikram lander crashed onto the lunar surface. The Beresheet lander from SpaceIL made the landing attempt in April, but crashed onto the Moon. Israel's SpaceIL, one of the participants in the expired Google Lunar X Prize, launched the first private mission to the Moon in February.
The first panorama from the far side of the Moon, captured by Chang'e 4 lander
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