| Vostok 1 |
USSR |
Yuri A. Gagarin |
April 12, 1961 |
April 12, 1961 |
1 hr. 48 min. |
First manned flight, 1 orbit around Earth. |
| Mercury/Redstone 3 |
USA |
Alan B. Shepard, Jr |
May 5, 1961 |
May 5, 1961 |
0 hr. 15 min. |
First American in space, suborbital flight. |
| Mercury/Redstone 4 |
USA |
Virgil I. Grissom |
July 21, 1961 |
July 21, 1961 |
0 hr. 16 min. |
Suborbital flight. |
| Vostok 2 |
USSR |
Gherman S. Titov |
Aug. 8, 1961 |
Aug. 7, 1961 |
25 hrs. 14 min. |
More than a day in space. |
| Mercury/Atlas 6 |
USA |
John H. Glenn, Jr |
Feb. 20, 1962 |
Feb. 20, 1962 |
4 hrs. 55 min. |
First American in orbit, 3 orbits. |
| Mercury/Atlas 7 |
USA |
M. Scott Carpenter |
May 24, 1962 |
May 24, 1962 |
4 hrs. 56 min. |
Three orbits. |
| Vostok 3 |
USSR |
Andrian G. Nikolayev |
Aug. 11, 1962 |
Aug. 15, 1962 |
94 hrs. 22 min. |
Vostok 3 and 4, first group flight-Vostok 4 came within 5 km (3.1 miles) of Vostok 3. |
| Vostok 4 |
USSR |
Pavel R. Popovich |
Aug. 12, 1962 |
Aug. 15, 1962 |
70 hrs. 57 min. |
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| Mercury/Atlas 8 |
USA |
Walter M. Schirra, Jr. |
Oct. 3, 1962 |
Oct. 3, 1962 |
9 hrs. 13 min. |
Landod 8 km (5 miles) from target. |
| Mercury/Atlas 9 |
USA |
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. |
May 15, 1963 |
May 16, 1963 |
34 hrs. 20 min. |
First long flight by American, |
| Vostok 5 |
USSR |
Valery F. Bykovsky |
June 14, 1963 |
June 19, 1963 |
119 hrs. 6 min. |
Vostok 5 and 6, second group flight-Vostok 6 came within 4.8 km (3 miles) of Vostok 5. |
| Vostok 6 |
USSR |
Valentina V. Tereshkova |
June 16, 1963 |
June 19, 1963 |
70 hrs. 50 min. |
First woman in space. |
| Voskhod 1 |
USSR |
Vladimir M. Komarov, Konstantin P. Feoktestov, Dr. Boris G. Yogorov |
Oct. 12, 1964 |
Oct. 13, 1964 |
24 hrs. 17 min. |
First three-man crew. |
| Voskhod 2 |
USSR |
Aleksei A. Leonov, Pavel I. Belyayev |
Mar. 18, 1965 |
Mar. 19, 1965 |
26 hrs. 2 min. |
First man to “spacewalk” outside spacecraft (Leonov). |
| Gemini 3 |
USA |
VirgilI. Grissom, John W. Young |
Mar. 23, 1965 |
Mar. 23, 1965 |
4 hrs. 53 min. |
First manned orbital maneuvers. |
| Gemini 4 |
USA |
James A. McDivitt, Edward H. White, 2nd. |
June 3, 1965 |
June 7, 1965 |
97 hrs. 48 min.. |
First U.S. “spacewalk,” 21 minutes (White). |
| Gemini 5 |
USA |
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., Charles Conrad, Jr. |
Aug. 21, 1965 |
Aug. 29, 1965 |
190 hrs. 56 min. |
First extended manned flight. |
| Gemini 7 |
USA |
Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr. |
Dec. 4, 1965 |
Dec. 18, 1965 |
330 hrs. 35 min. |
Longest space flight prior to Soyuz 9. |
| Gemini 6 |
USA |
Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Thomas P. Stafford |
Dec. 15, 1965 |
Dec. 16, 1965 |
25 hrs. 52 min. |
Rendezvous within 0.3 meters (1 foot) of Gemini 7. |
| Gemini 8 |
USA |
Neil A. Armstrong, David R. Scott |
Mar. 16, 1966 |
Mar. 16, 1966 |
10 hrs. 42 min. |
First docking to “Agena” target, mission eut short. |
| Gemini 9 |
USA |
Thomas P. Stafford, Eugene A. Cernan |
June 3, 1966 |
June 6, 1966 |
72 hrs. 21 min. |
Rendezvous, extravehicular activity tests; precision landing. |
| Gemini 10 |
USA |
John W. Young, Michael Collins |
July 18, 1966 |
July 21, 1966 |
70 hrs. 47 min. |
Rendezvous with two targets |
| Gemini 11 |
USA |
Charles Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon, Jr. |
Sept. 12, 1966 |
Sept. 15, 1966 |
71 hrs. 14 min. |
Rendezvous and docking with Atlas-Agena target vehicle. |
| Gemini 12 |
USA |
James A. Lovell, Jr., Edwin A. Aldrin, Jr. |
Nor. 11, 1966 |
Nov. 15, 1966 |
94 hrs. 33 min. |
Three successful extravehicular trips. |
| Soyuz 1 |
USSR |
Vladimir M. Komarov |
Apr. 23, 1967 |
Apr. 24, 1967 |
26 hrs. 40 min. |
Crashed on reentry, killing Komarov. |
| Apollo 7 |
USA |
Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, R. Walter Cunningham |
Oct, 11, 1968 |
Oct. 22, 1968 |
260 hrs. 9 min. |
First manned flight of Apollo. |
| Soyuz 3 |
USSR |
Georgi T. Beregovoy |
Oct. 26, 1968 |
Oct. 28, 1968 |
94 hrs. 51 min. |
Rendezvous with unmanned Soyuz 2. |
| Apollo 8 |
USA |
Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., Willian. A. Anders |
Dec. 21, 1968 |
Dec. 27, 1968 |
147 hrs. |
First manned flight around the Moon. |
| Soyuz 4 |
USSR |
Vladimir A. Shatalov |
Jan. 14, 1969 |
Jan. 17, 1969 |
71 hrs. 14 min. |
Rendezvous with Soyuz 5. |
| Soyuz 5 |
USSR |
Boris V. Volynov, Aleksey S. Yeliseyev, Yevgeni V. Khrunov |
Jan. 15, 1969 |
Jan. 18, 1969 |
72 hrs. 45 min. |
Rendezvous with Soyuz 4; Yeliseyev and Khrunov transfer to Soyuz 4. |
| Apollo 9 |
USA |
James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, Russell I. Schweikart |
Mar. 3, 1969 |
Mar. 13, 1969 |
241 hrs. 1 min. |
Docking with lunar module. |
| Apollo 10 |
USA |
Thomas R. Stafford, Eugene A. Cernan, John W. Young |
May 18, 1969 |
May 26, 1969 |
192 hrs. 3 min. |
Descent to within 14.5 km (9 miles) of lunar surface. |
| Apollo 11 |
USA |
Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Michael Collins |
July 16, 1969 |
July 24, 1969 |
195 hrs. 18 min. |
First lunar landing; Armstrong, Aldrin land on Moon. |
| Soyuz 6 |
USSR |
Georgiy Shonin, Valeriy Kubasov |
Oct. 11, 1969 |
Oct. 16, 1969 |
118 hrs. 44 min. |
Began first triple launch of manned spacecraft, followed by Soyuz 7 and 8. |
| Soyuz 7 |
USSR |
Anatoly Filipchenko, Viktor Gorbatko, Vladisov Volko |
Oct. 12, 1969 |
Oct. 17, 1969 |
118 hrs. 41 min. |
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| Soyuz 8 |
USSR |
Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksey Yeliseyev |
Oct. 13, 1969 |
Oct. 18, 1969 |
118 hrs. 50 min. |
- |
| Apollo 12 |
USA |
Charles Conrad, Jr., Alan L. Bean, Richard F. Gordon, Jr. |
Nov. 14, 1969 |
Nov. 24, 1969 |
224 hrs. 36 min. |
Two EVA's on Moon by Conrad, Bean. |
| Apollo 13 |
USA |
James A. Lovell, Jr., Fred W. Haise, Jr., John L. Swigert |
Apr. 11, 1970 |
Apr. 17, 1970 |
142 hrs. 54 min. |
Failure of spacecraft oxygen tank about 56 hours into mission caused mission cancellation and return to Earth. |
| Soyuz 9 |
USSR |
Andrian G. Nikolayev, Vitali Sevastyanov |
June 2, 1970 |
June 19, 1970 |
424 hrs. 59 min. |
Longest space flight to date. |
| Apollo 14 |
USA |
Edgar A. Mitchell, Stuart A.Roosa, Alan B. Shepard |
Jan. 31, 1971 |
Feb. 9, 1971 |
216 hrs. 2 min. |
Lunar landing, first wheeled lunar vehicle- Modularized Equipment Transporter (hand-pulled cart). |
| Soyuz 10 |
USSR |
Vladimar A. Shatalow, Alexei S.Yeliseyev, Nikolai N. Rukavishnikov |
Apr. 22, 1971 |
Apr. 24, 1971 |
47 hrs. 46 min. |
Docked with Salyut 1, a prototype manned space station launched unmanned. |
| Soyuz 11 |
USSR |
Georgiy T. Dobrovolskiy, Valadis-Jov N. Volkor, Viktor I. Patsayev |
June 6, 1971 |
June 30, 1971 |
569 hrs. 47 min. |
Cosmonauts died during reentry. |
| Apollo 15 |
USA |
James Irwin, Alfred Worden, David R. Scott |
July 26, 1971 |
Aug. 7, 1971 |
294 hrs. 44 min. |
Lunar landing, first use of Lunar Rover Vehicle, a motor-driven astronaut conveyance. |
| Apollo 16 |
USA |
John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II, Charles M. Duke |
Apr. 16, 1972 |
Apr. 27, 1972 |
265 hrs. 51 min. |
Lunar landing, second mission with LRV. |
| Apollo 17 |
USA |
Eugene Cernan, Harrison H. Schmitt, Ronald E. Evans |
Dec. 7, 1972 |
Dec. 19, 1972 |
301 hrs. 52 min. |
Lunar landing, third mission with LRV, final Apollo mission, first scientist-astronaut (Schmitt). |