Manned spacecraft
- See also: Human spaceflight
- Orbital
- See also: Orbital spaceflight
- Apollo Spacecraft
- Gemini Spacecraft
- International Space Station
- Mercury Spacecraft
- Manned Maneuvering Unit - world's smallest manned spacecraft
- Mir
- Salyut
- Shuttle Buran
- Shenzhou Spacecraft
- Skylab
- Soyuz Spacecraft
- Space Shuttle
- Voskhod Spacecraft
- Vostok Spacecraft
- Suborbital
- See also: Suborbital spaceflight
- SpaceShipOne (commercial) suborbital
- X-15 suborbital
Unmanned spacecraft
- See also: Space probe and Boilerplate (rocketry)
- Earth Orbit
- Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) - unmanned European cargo spacecraft
- Buran Soviet shuttle (one mission only)
- Explorer 1 - first US satellite
- Progress - unmanned USSR/Russia cargo spacecraft
- Project SCORE - first communications satellite
- SOHO
- Sputnik 1 - world's first artificial satellite
- Sputnik 2 - first animal in orbit (Laika)
- Sputnik 5 - first capsule recovered from orbit (Vostok precursor) - animals survived
- STEREO - Earth environment observation
- Syncom - first geosynchronous communications satellite