NASA Lewis Research Center
105 records
1960s
49 records
1962
Alouette 1 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Alouette 1
Thor Agena B launched on the Alouette 1 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch vehicle success.
1963
Centaur R&D — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Centaur R&D
Atlas Centaur launched on the Centaur R&D flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC36A. Launch vehicle success.
1964
Echo 2 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Echo 2
Thor SLV-2 Agena B launched on the Echo 2 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch vehicle success.
Ranger 6 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Ranger 6
Ranger 6 was a lunar probe in the NASA Ranger program, a series of robotic spacecraft of the early and mid-1960s to obtain close-up images of the Moon's surface.
Centaur R&D — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests
Mission: Centaur R&D
Atlas Centaur launched on the Centaur R&D flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC36A. Launch failure.
Ranger 7 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Ranger 7
Ranger 7 was the first NASA space probe to successfully transmit close-up images of the lunar surface back to Earth.
Nimbus 1 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Nimbus 1
Thor SLV-2 Agena B launched on the Nimbus 1 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch vehicle success.
OGO 1 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: OGO 1
Atlas Agena B launched on the OGO 1 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC12. Launch vehicle success.
Mariner 3 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Mariner 3
Mariner 3 (Mariner C-2, together with Mariner 4 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was one of two identical deep-space probes designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA's Mariner-Mars 1964 project that were intended to conduct close-up (flyby)…
Mariner 4 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Mariner 4
Mariner 4 (Mariner C-3, together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode.
Surveyor Model — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Surveyor Model
Atlas Centaur launched on the Surveyor Model flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC36A. Partial launch success/failure.
1965
Ranger 8 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Ranger 8
Ranger 8 was a lunar probe in the Ranger program, a robotic spacecraft series launched by NASA in the early-to-mid-1960s to obtain the first close-up images of the Moon's surface.
SD-1 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests
Mission: SD-1
Atlas Centaur launched on the SD-1 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC36A. Launch failure.
Ranger 9 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Ranger 9
Ranger 9 was a Lunar probe, launched in 1965 by NASA.
SD-2 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: SD-2
Atlas Centaur D launched on the SD-2 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC36B. Launch vehicle success.
OGO 2 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: OGO 2
Thor SLV-2A Agena D launched on the OGO 2 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch vehicle success.
ISIS-X — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: ISIS-X
Thor SLV-2 Agena B launched on the ISIS-X flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch vehicle success.
1966
SM-2 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: SM-2
Atlas Centaur D launched on the SM-2 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC36B. Partial launch success/failure.
OAO A1 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: OAO A1
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D launched on the OAO A1 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC12. Launch vehicle success.
Nimbus 2 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Nimbus 2
Thor SLV-2A Agena B launched on the Nimbus 2 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch vehicle success.
Surveyor 1 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Surveyor 1
Surveyor 1 was the first lunar soft-lander in the uncrewed Surveyor program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, United States).
OGO B — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: OGO B
Atlas SLV-3 Agena B launched on the OGO B flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC12. Launch vehicle success.
Pageos — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Pageos
Thor SLV-2A Agena D launched on the Pageos flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch vehicle success.
Lunar Orbiter 1 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Lunar Orbiter 1
The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
Surveyor 2 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Surveyor 2
Surveyor 2 was to be the second lunar lander in the uncrewed American Surveyor program to explore the Moon.
SM-3 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: SM-3
Atlas Centaur D launched on the SM-3 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC36B. Launch vehicle success.
Lunar Orbiter 2 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Lunar Orbiter 2
The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 robotic spacecraft mission, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions.
ATS 1 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: ATS 1
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D launched on the ATS 1 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC12. Launch vehicle success.
1967
Lunar Orbiter 3 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Lunar Orbiter 3
The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967 as part of the Lunar Orbiter Program.
ATS 2 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: ATS 2
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D launched on the ATS 2 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC12. Launch vehicle success.
Surveyor 3 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Surveyor 3
Surveyor 3 is the third lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon in 1967 and the second to successfully land.
Lunar Orbiter 4 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Lunar Orbiter 4
Lunar Orbiter 4 was a robotic U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed the required needs for Apollo mapping and site selection.
Mariner 5 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Mariner 5
Mariner 5 (Mariner V or Mariner Venus 1967) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus's atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles…
Surveyor 4 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Surveyor 4
Surveyor 4 is the fourth lunar lander in the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon.
OGO 4 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: OGO 4
Thor SLV-2A Agena D launched on the OGO 4 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad SLC2E. Launch vehicle success.
Lunar Orbiter 5 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Lunar Orbiter 5
Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the "Lunar Orbiter series", was designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and to take broad survey images of unphotographed parts of the Moon's far side.
Surveyor 5 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Surveyor 5
Surveyor 5 is the fifth lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon.
ATS 3 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: ATS 3
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D launched on the ATS 3 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC12. Launch vehicle success.
Surveyor 6 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Surveyor 6
Surveyor 6 is the sixth lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program that reached the surface of the Moon.
1968
Surveyor 7 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Surveyor 7
Surveyor 7 was sent to the Moon in 1968 on a scientific and photographic mission as the seventh and last lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program.
OGO 5 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: OGO 5
Atlas SLV-3A Agena D launched on the OGO 5 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC13. Launch vehicle success.
Nimbus B — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests
Mission: Nimbus B
Thorad SLV-2G Agena D launched on the Nimbus B flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad SLC2E. Launch failure.
ATS 4 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: ATS 4
Atlas SLV-3C Centaur launched on the ATS 4 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC36A. Partial launch success/failure.
OAO 2 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: OAO 2
Atlas SLV-3C Centaur launched on the OAO 2 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC36B. Launch vehicle success.
1969
Mariner 6 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Mariner 6
Mariner 6 was a NASA robotic mission launched on February 25, 1969 to study Mars during a close flyby.
Mariner 7 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Mariner 7
Mariner 7 was a NASA robotic spacecraft launched on March 27, 1969 as a companion to Mariner 6.
Nimbus 3 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: Nimbus 3
Thorad SLV-2G Agena D (?) launched on the Nimbus 3 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad SLC2E. Launch vehicle success.
OGO 6 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: OGO 6
Thorad SLV-2H Agena D launched on the OGO 6 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad SLC2E. Launch vehicle success.
ATS 5 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: ATS 5
Atlas SLV-3C Centaur launched on the ATS 5 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC36A. Launch vehicle success.
1970s
1 record
1970
SERT 2 — launch
Category: Launches and Flight Tests, type: Orbital launch
Mission: SERT 2
Thorad SLV-2G Agena D launched on the SERT 2 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad SLC2E. Launch vehicle success.
