NASA is the most trusted brand in the space business, but throughout the decades of space exploration, other nations also went where no man has gone before. And here are their ten most significant achievements.

The Hayabusa 2 is the follow-up mission set to be launched next year.

Using a different approach than the , the Hayabusa 2 will land a German/French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout on an asteroid, which will drop plastic explosives, roll to the other side of the rock to protect itself, detonate penetrating the surface and analyze the samples from the crater for a year and a half.

European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft will be woken up from deep-space hibernation on 20…

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9.) Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise

is one of the most exciting companies out there, even if they weren't . But at the same time, let's not forget about a certain British billionaire who also wants to fly high.

Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk must be pretty happy right now. His other major venture, SpaceX, has

started a year after Space X was founded, and instead of , they're about to send many into space.

You know how rockets fly upward and then just land wherever? That's so 20th century, man. Elon…

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8.) India's space program

India is building rockets. They used to rely on Russian tech, but aren't far from getting fully independent. Communication and observation satellites, and ambitious plans for extraterrestrial exploration. We shall see, but their is pretty badass.

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I'd have to go with India. They're the only non-aligned country with a legitimate space program.

7.) China's Lunar Rover

It's called the , which is pretty cool. The other fact about the Chinese space effort is that they're sending more rockets up there week by week than the rest of the industry combined, successfully.

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China's moon rover...because Jade Rabbit is a goddamn cool name.

6.) Russia's ALMAZ guns

The Soviets just to have something there before the Americans, and built that unfortunately blew up during a failed launch before it could doom us all, but the most remarkable thing was their highly secret .

We all know Russia is crazy. But did you know at they shot titanium soccer balls into the moon?!

It was was equipped with a unique 23mm Rikhter rapid-fire cannon mounted on the forward belly of the station, modified from the tail-gun of the Tu-22 bomber with a theoretical rate of fire of 1800-2000 (up to 2600) rounds per minute.

Some of its technology lives on in the ISS.

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ALMAZ (which was the military designation of the russian Salyut space station). Why is it cool?…

5.) The French probe of Titan

The landed on the Saturn's moon in 2005 after traveling for more than seven years. It also sent back some nice pictures, and remains the the most distant landing man-made object as of today.

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Huygens probe by ESA - nice soft landing to Titan

4.) Russia's Soyuz rockets

Soyuz rockets started their glorious career back in 1966, and since America doesn't have a Space Shuttle anymore, if anybody wants to go to the ISS, using a Soyuz 2.1b remains the only way.

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3.) Canada's arm

The Canadarm's giant hand and the great work of put the Canadian flag up there forever.

Coolest non-US space "project"?

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Canadarm has to on the list somewhere.

2.) USSR Buran

The Buran could have been better than the Space Shuttle if it was ever finished by the collapsing communists. Simple facts:

It went around the planet twice, then landed without a pilot.It could carry a much greater load (120 tonns/30 tonns).It had a better lift-drag ratio (6.5/5.5).It had a catapult system. The Space Shuttle also had one at first, but only for two people, so they got rid of later on to make it fair.

Then again, one successful flight doesn't really count, does it?

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Even though I don't think it ever made it into space, I pick Buran. Russia's space shuttle.

1.) Russia's famous trio

They launched .

Sputnik?

They launched

Yuri Gagarin and the Vostok 1, first man in space.

And they launched

Lunokhod programme

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