> Many of those you mentioned are still part of the goal of getting a human on the moon. Some of them were for getting more detailed information about the Moon

> Many of those you mentioned are still part of the goal of getting a human on the moon. Some of them were for getting more detailed information about the Moon prior to sending the Apollo missions there. But most of them were general solar system exploration. > That's like saying Starliner's Demo flights don't count as human-rated because they were uncrewed. No, it isn't. The counterpart in the 1960s to these missions would be the uncrewed flights of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft that were done prior to the first crewed missions. I did not include those in the unmanned missions I listed.