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Print/export Download as PDF; ... Timeline of spaceflight ... First orbital launch Juno II United States: 3: 1: 2: 0: Retired Kosmos-2I 63S1
Launch spacecraft Habitation Return spacecraft Brief mission summary 1 Yuri Gagarin: 12 April 1961 Vostok 1: First crewed spaceflight. Reached Low Earth Orbit (LEO), flew around the Earth one time. 2 Alan Shepard (1) 5 May 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3 : First American crewed spaceflight. Did not reach Earth orbit, maximum altitude: 187 km (116 miles).
The list for the year 2024 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches. For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line , the FAI -recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL) . [ 1 ]
A chart showing relative accomplishments in human spaceflights (along with probes) visually graphing how the U.S. had far surpassed the Soviet Union in the 1970s with lunar missions, yet lagged years behind in space station activity. A chart showing U.S. astronaut assignments during the 1970s as graduated from the Mercury and Gemini programs.
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The see also section should follow the orbital launch summary if present, or otherwise the table of launches. It should contain links to the appropriate page of the list of human spaceflights (if the article is for 1961 or later), an article providing more details of suborbital flights in that year (Suborbital spaceflight in [year]), and the ...
Rocket Country Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks Atlas LV-3A Agena-B United States 13: 10: 3: 0: Atlas LV-3B United States 3: 3: 0: 0: Delta A United States 2: 2: 0: 0: Only flights
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