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1961 |
| 1 | April 12 |
Vostok |
Yuri Gagarin |
USSR |
The first human flight into space |
01 h 48 m |
| 2 | May 5 |
Mercury Freedom-7 |
Alan Shepard |
USA |
Suborbital Flight |
15 min |
| 3 |
July 21 |
Mercury Liberty Bell-7 |
Virgil Grissom |
USA |
Suborbital Flight |
16 min |
| 4 |
August 6 |
Vostok-2 |
German Titov |
USSR |
The first daily flight. |
25 h 18 m |
| Year Summary |
- The first year of manned flights
- The first two orbital flights in the USSR and two suborbital flights in the USA
- The record of flight duration = 25 h 18 m
|
| |
1962 |
| 5 |
February 20 |
Mercury Friendship-7 |
John Glenn |
USA |
The first orbital flight of the USA |
4 h 55 m |
| 6 |
May 24 |
Mercury Aurora-7 |
Malcolm Carpenter |
USA |
The second orbital flight of the USA |
4 h 56 m |
| 7 |
August 11 |
Vostok-3 |
Andrian Nikolaev |
USSR |
The first group flight of two spaceships. The record of flight duration = 94 h 25 m |
3 d 22 h 25 m |
| 8 |
August 12 |
Vostok-4 |
Pavel Popovich |
USSR
|
The approchement with Vostok-3 up to 6 km |
2 d 22 h 59 m |
| 9 |
October 3 |
Mercury Sigma-7 |
Walter Shirra |
USA |
|
9 h 13 m |
| Year Summary
|
- The first orbital flight in the United States
- The first group flight of two spaceships
- Cosmonauts of the USSR - 4 (+2 per year)
- Manned flights of the USSR - 4 (+2 per year)
- US astronauts - 5 (+3 per year)
- Manned US flights - 5 (+3 per year)
- Total astronauts and cosmonauts - 9 (+5 per year)
- Total manned flights - 9 (+5 per year)
- The record of flight duration = 94 h 25 m
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| |
1963
|
| 10 |
May 15 |
Mercury Faith-7 |
Gordon Cooper |
USA |
The first daily US flight |
1 d 10 h 20 m |
| 11 |
June 14 |
Vostok-5 |
Valery Bykovsky |
USSR
|
The second group flight of two ships. The record duration of the flight is 119 h 6 m.
This record, for flights alone, is not surpassed to this day. |
4 d 23 h 6 m |
| 12 |
June 16 |
Vostok-6 |
Valentina Tereshkova |
USSR
|
The first woman in space. Convergence with Vostok-5 to 5 km.
Tereshkova remained the only female cosmonaut until 1982 |
2 d 22 h 50 m |
| Year Summary
|
- The first flight of a woman-cosmonaut
- The second group flight of two spaceships
- Cosmonauts of the USSR - 6 (+2 per year)
- Manned flights of the USSR - 6 (+2 per year)
- US astronauts - 6 (+1 per year)
- Manned US flights - 6 (+1 per year)
- Total astronauts and cosmonauts - 12 (+3 per year)
- Total manned flights - 12 (+3 per year)
- The record duration of the flight is 119 h 6 m
|
| |
1964
|
| 13 |
October 12 |
Voskhod |
Vladimir Komarov,
Konstantin Feoktistov,
Boris Egorov |
USSR
|
The first flight of a multi-seater spacecraft |
1 d 0 h 17 m |
| Year Summary
|
-
The first flight of a multi-seater spacecraft
- For the first time in space, three astronauts simultaneously
- For the first time ever civil specialists
- Cosmonauts of the USSR - 9 (+3 per year)
- Manned flights of the USSR - 7 (+1 per year)
- US astronauts - 6 (+0 per year)
- US manned flights - 6 (+0 per year)
- Total astronauts and cosmonauts - 15 (+3 per year)
- Total manned flights - 13 (+1 per year)
- The record of flight duration = 119 h 6 m
|
| |
1965
|
| 14 |
March 18 |
Voskhod-2 |
Pavel Belyayev,
Alexey Leonov,
|
USSR
|
The first flight of a two-seater spacecraft. The first spacewalk. |
1 d 2 h 2 m |
| 15 |
March 23 |
Gemini-3 |
Virgil Grissom,
John Young |
USA |
The first flight of a two-seater US spacecraft. |
4 h 53 m |
| 16 |
June 3 |
Gemini-4 |
James McDivitt,
Edward White |
USA |
The first exit of the American astronaut in the open space. |
4 d 1 h 56 m |
| 17 | August 21 |
Gemini-5 |
Gordon Cooper,
Charles Conrad |
USA |
For the first time an astronaut (Cooper) commits second space flight.
The record of flight duration = 190 h 55 m. |
7 d 22 h 55 m |
| 18 | December 4 |
Gemini-7 |
Frank Borman,
James Lovell |
USA |
Record flight duration = 330 h 35 m.
The first group flight of American spacecraft. Convergence with Gemini-6A to 30 cm. |
13 d 18 h 35 m |
| 19 | December 15 |
Gemini-6A |
Walter Shirra,
Thomas Stafford |
USA |
The first group flight of American spaceships .
Convergence with Gemini-7 to 30 cm.
For the first time in space at the same time - 4 astronauts. |
1 d 1 h 51 m |
| Year Summary |
- The first spacewalk
- The first flights of two-seater spacecraft
- For the first time in space at the same time - 4 astronauts
- For the first time an astronaut makes two space flights
- Cosmonauts of the USSR - 11 (+2 per year)
- Manned flights of the USSR - 8 (+1 per year)
- US astronauts - 13 (+7 per year)
- US Manned flights - 11 (+5 per year)
- Total astronauts and cosmonauts - 24 (+9 per year)
- Total manned flights - 19 (+6 per year)
- Record flight duration = 330 h 35 m
|
| 1966 |
| 20 |
March 16 |
Gemini-8 |
Neil Armstrong,
David Scott |
USA |
The first docking in orbit with a Agena Target Docking vehicle. |
10 h 41 m |
| 21 |
June 3 |
Gemini-9A |
Thomas Stafford,
Eugene Cernan |
USA |
Cernan came out into outer space.
|
3 d 0 h 21 m |
| 22 |
July 18 |
Gemini-10 |
John Young,
Michael Collins |
USA |
Docking with Agena Target Docking vehicle.
Collins made spacewalk.
|
2 d 22 h 47 m |
| 23 |
September 12 |
Gemini-11 |
Charles Conrad,
Richard Gordon |
USA |
Record of altitude of the orbit - 1.372 km .
Gordon made spacewalk.
|
2 d 23 h 17 m |
| 24 |
November 11 |
Gemini-12 |
James Lovell,
Edwin Aldrin |
USA |
Aldrin mage 3 spacewalks, with a total duration of 5.5 hours.
|
3 d 22 h 35 m |
| Year Summary
|
- The first docking in orbit
- Cosmonauts of the USSR - 11 (+0 per year)
- Manned flights of the USSR - 8 (+0 per year)
- US astronauts - 19 (+6 per year)
- US Manned flights - 16 (+5 per year)
- Total astronauts and cosmonauts - 30 (+6 per year)
- Total manned flights - 24 (+5 per year)
- Record flight duration = 330 h 35 m
|
| |
1967
|
| 25 |
April 23 |
Soyuz-1 |
Vladimir Komarov
|
USSR |
The first flight of a new Soviet spacecraft - Soyuz.
First Soviet cosmonaut commits two space flights.
For the first time an astronaut dies while performing a space flight. |
1 d 2 h 37 m |
| Year Summary
|
- The first flight of a new Soviet spacecraft - Soyuz
- First Soviet cosmonaut commits two space flights
- For the first time an astronaut dies while performing a space flight
- Cosmonauts of the USSR - 11 (+0 per year)
- Manned flights of the USSR - 9 (+1 per year)
- US astronauts - 19 (+0 per year)
- US Manned flights - 16 (+0 per year)
- Total astronauts and cosmonauts - 30 (+0 per year)
- Total manned flights - 25 (+1 per year)
- Record flight duration = 330 h 35 m
|
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1968
|
| 26 |
October 11 |
Apollo 7 |
Walter Shirra,
Don Eisel,
Walter Cunningham
|
USA |
The first flight of a new American spacecraft Apollo.
First three American astronauts in one crew.
Walter Shirra is the first to make three space flights.
|
10 d 20 h 9 m |
| 27 |
October 26 |
Soyuz-3 |
George Beregovoy
|
USSR
|
The rapprochement with the unmanned ship Soyuz -2. |
3 d 22 h 51 m |
| 28 |
December 21 |
Apollo 8 |
Frank Borman,
James Lovell,
William Anders
|
USA |
The first flight to the moon.
For the first time, three American astronauts entered the near-moon orbit.
|
6 d 3 h 1 m |
| Year Summary
|
- The first flight of a new American ship - Apollo
- A year and a half after the death of Kovrov, manned flights are resumed in the USSR
- The first manned moon flight
- Cosmonauts of the USSR - 12 (+1 for the year)
- Manned flights of the USSR - 10 (+1 per year)
- US astronauts - 22 (+3 per year)
- US Manned flights - 18 (+2 per year)
- Total astronauts and cosmonauts - 34 (+4 per year)
- Total manned flights - 28 (+3 per year)
- Record flight duration = 330 h 35 m
|
| |
1969
|
| 29 |
January 14 |
Soyuz-4 |
Vladimir Shatalov
|
USSR |
The first docking of two manned spaceships. |
2 d 23 h 23 m |
| 30 |
January 15 |
Soyuz-5 |
Boris Volynov,
Alexey Eliseev,
Evgeny Khrunov
|
USSR |
The first docking of two manned ships.
Eliseev and Khrunov crossed the open space to Soyuz-4.
For the first time astronauts started on one, and landed on another spaceship. |
3 d 0 h 56 m |
| 31 |
March 3 |
Apollo 9 |
James McDivitt,
David Scott,
Russell Svejkart
|
USA |
Maneuvers with a lunar cabin at the near-Earth orbit.
|
10 d 1 h 1 m |
| 32 |
May 18 |
Apollo-10 |
Thomas Stafford,
John Young,
Eugene Cernan
|
USA |
The second flight to the Moon. General dress rehearsal landing on the moon.
|
8 d 0 h 3 m |
| 33 |
July 16 |
Apollo 11 |
Neil Armstrong,
Michael Collins
Edwin Aldrin
|
USA |
Armstrong and Aldrin are the first astronauts on the Moon.
|
8 d 3 h 9 m |
| 34 |
October 11 |
Soyuz-6 |
George Shonin,
Valery Kubasov
|
USSR
|
The first group flight of three spaceships. |
4 d 22 h 42 m |
| 35 |
October 12 |
Soyuz-7 |
Anatoly Filipchenko,
Viktor Gorbatko,
Vladislav Volkov
|
USSR |
Mutual maneuvers of three spaceships. |
4 d 22 h 41 m |
| 36 |
October 13 |
Soyuz-8 |
Vladimir Shatalov,
Alexey Eliseev
|
USSR |
For the first time in space, seven cosmonauts. |
4 d 22 h 50 m |
| 37 |
November 14 |
Apollo-12 |
Charles Conrad,
Richard Gordon,
Alan Bean
|
USA |
The second expedition with landing on the Moon .
|
10 d 4 h 36 m |
| Year Summary
|
- The first docking of manned spacecraft
- The first and second landing of American astronauts on the moon
- Group flight of three spaceships. For the first time in space, seven astronauts simultaneously
- Cosmonauts of the USSR - 21 (+9 per year)
- Manned flights of the USSR - 15 (+5 per year)
- US astronauts - 24 (+2 per year)
- US Manned flights - 22 (+4 per year)
- Total astronauts and cosmonauts - 45 (+11 per year)
- Total manned flights - 37 (+9 per year)
- Record flight duration = 330 h 35 m
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