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1960s

50 records

  1. 1960

    1. 1960-03-23 launch failure

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      Juno II launched on the NASA S-46 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC26B. Launch failure.

    2. 1960-04-16 launch failure

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      Vostok-L 8K72 launched on the E-3 No. 2 flight from NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan, pad LC1. Launch failure.

    3. 1960-05-13 launch failure

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      Thor Delta launched on the Echo flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC17A. Launch failure.

    4. 1960-05-15 launch

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      Vostok 8K72 launched on the Korabl'-Sputnik flight from NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan, pad LC1. Launch vehicle success.

    5. 1960-07-28 launch failure

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      Vostok 8K72 launched on the Vostok-1 No. 1 flight from NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan, pad LC1. Launch failure.

    6. 1960-08-12 launch

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      Thor Delta launched on the Echo 1 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC17A. Launch vehicle success.

    7. 1960-08-19 launch

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      Vostok 8K72 launched on the Korabl'-Sputnik-2 flight from NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan, pad LC1. Launch vehicle success.

    8. 1960-10-10 launch failure

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      Mars 1960A, also called Mars 1M No.1, was the first of two Soviet probes launched in October 1960 to attempt a flyby of Mars.

    9. 1960-10-14 launch failure

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      Mars 1960B, also called Mars 1M No.2, was the second Soviet attempt to send a spacecraft toward Mars in October 1960.

    10. 1960-11-03 launch

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      Juno II launched on the Explorer 8 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC26B. Launch vehicle success.

    11. 1960-11-23 launch

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      Thor Delta launched on the Tiros 2 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC17A. Launch vehicle success.

    12. 1960-12-01 launch

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      Vostok 8K72 launched on the Korabl'-Sputnik-3 flight from NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan, pad LC1. Launch vehicle success.

    13. 1960-12-22 launch failure

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      Vostok 8K72 (K) launched on the Vostok-1 No. 4 flight from NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan, pad LC1. Launch failure.

  2. 1961

    1. 1961-02-04 launch

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      Tyazhely Sputnik, also known by its development name as Venera 1VA No. 1, and in the West as Sputnik 7, was a Soviet spacecraft, which was intended to be the first spacecraft to explore Venus.

    2. 1961-02-12 launch

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      Venera 1, also known as Venera-1VA No.2 and occasionally in the West as Sputnik 8, was the first spacecraft to perform an interplanetary flight and the first to fly past Venus, as part of the Soviet Union's Venera programme.

    3. 1961-02-25 launch failure

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      Juno II launched on the NASA S-45 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC26B. Launch failure.

    4. 1961-03-09 launch

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      Vostok 8K72 (K) launched on the Korabl'-Sputnik-4 flight from NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan, pad LC1. Launch vehicle success.

    5. 1961-03-25 launch

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      Vostok 8K72 (K) launched on the Korabl'-Sputnik-5 flight from NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan, pad LC1. Launch vehicle success.

    6. 1961-03-25 launch

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      Thor Delta launched on the Explorer 10 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC17A. Launch vehicle success.

    7. 1961-04-08 launch

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 23 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-3-5. Launch vehicle success.

    8. 1961-04-12 launch

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      Vostok 8K72 (K) launched on the Vostok flight from NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan, pad LC1. Launch vehicle success.

    9. 1961-04-25 launch failure

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      Atlas D launched on the MA-3 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC14. Launch failure.

    10. 1961-04-27 launch

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      Juno II launched on the Explorer 11 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC26B. Launch vehicle success.

    11. 1961-05-05 human spaceflight

      Shepard completed a suborbital flight aboard Freedom 7.

    12. 1961-05-24 launch failure

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      Juno II launched on the NASA S-45A flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC26B. Launch failure.

    13. 1961-05-25 space policy

      President John F. Kennedy called for a crewed lunar landing and safe return before the decade ended.

    14. 1961-06-08 launch failure

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 24 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-3-4. Launch failure.

    15. 1961-06-16 launch

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 25 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch vehicle success.

    16. 1961-06-29 launch

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      Thor Ablestar launched on the Transit 4A/GRAB flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC17B. Launch vehicle success.

    17. 1961-07-07 launch

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 26 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-3-5. Launch vehicle success.

    18. 1961-07-12 launch

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      Thor Delta launched on the Tiros 3 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC17A. Launch vehicle success.

    19. 1961-07-12 launch

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      Atlas Agena B launched on the Midas 3 flight from Naval Missile Facility, Point Arguello, California, pad LC1-2. Launch vehicle success.

    20. 1961-07-21 launch failure

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 27 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-3-4. Launch failure.

    21. 1961-08-04 launch failure

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 28 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch failure.

    22. 1961-08-06 launch

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      Vostok 8K72 (K) launched on the Vostok-2 flight from NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan, pad LC1. Launch vehicle success.

    23. 1961-08-16 launch

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      Thor Delta launched on the Explorer 12 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC17A. Launch vehicle success.

    24. 1961-08-23 launch

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      Ranger 1 was a prototype spacecraft launched as part of the Ranger program of uncrewed space missions.

    25. 1961-08-30 launch

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 29 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-3-4. Launch vehicle success.

    26. 1961-09-09 launch failure

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      Atlas Agena B launched on the Samos 3 flight from Naval Missile Facility, Point Arguello, California, pad LC1-1. Launch failure.

    27. 1961-09-12 launch

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 30 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-3-5. Launch vehicle success.

    28. 1961-09-17 launch

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 31 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch vehicle success.

    29. 1961-10-13 launch

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 32 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-3-4. Launch vehicle success.

    30. 1961-10-21 launch

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      Atlas Agena B launched on the Midas 4 flight from Naval Missile Facility, Point Arguello, California, pad LC1-2. Launch vehicle success.

    31. 1961-10-23 launch failure

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 33 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-3-5. Launch failure.

    32. 1961-10-27 launch failure

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      Kosmos 63S1 launched on the DS-1 No. 1 flight from GTsP-4, Kapustin Yar, Volgograd, Rossiya, pad Mayak-2. Launch failure.

    33. 1961-11-01 launch failure

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      Blue Scout II launched on the Mercury-Scout 1 flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC18B. Launch failure.

    34. 1961-11-05 launch

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 34 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-1-1. Launch vehicle success.

    35. 1961-11-15 launch

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      Thor Ablestar launched on the Transit 4B flight from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, pad LC17B. Launch vehicle success.

    36. 1961-11-15 launch

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      Thor Agena B launched on the Discoverer 35 flight from Vandenberg AFB, California, pad 75-3-4. Launch vehicle success.

    37. 1961-11-18 launch

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      Ranger 2 was a flight test of the Ranger spacecraft system of the NASA Ranger program designed for future lunar and interplanetary missions.

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