As part of this week’s data mob, some of us have been filling out dates and times on Freebase’s collection of space missions.

Take a look at this timeline of results. The colours indicate the space programme responsible for the missions; for instance, all of China’s Shenzhou missions appear in dark brown, and if you scroll back to the 60s and 70s you can see the USSR and USA duking it out in the space race.

There are still a bunch of space missions that don’t have dates set, so if you have a moment you can help fill them in. Then you can see the fruits of your labours showing up in Parallax’s timelines.