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19 June 1963 Vostok 6: First woman in space. 13 Joseph A. Walker: 19 July 1963 Flight 90, X-15: First winged craft in space. Reached altitude of 106 km. 14 Joseph A. Walker: 22 August 1963 Flight 91, X-15: Reached altitude of 108 km. Walker becomes first person to fly into space twice. X-15-3 (serial 56-6672) becomes first vehicle to fly into ...
The Spacefacts list includes most flights listed here, but omits twelve: The three failed launches of STS-51-L, Soyuz T-10a and Soyuz MS-10, none of which achieved human spaceflight, the uncrewed launch of Soyuz 34 (which nevertheless returned a crew to Earth), and the eight sub-orbital human spaceflights: Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4, X-15 flights ...
Date/Time (UTC) Source object Event type Pieces tracked Remarks 9 May [1]: Westford-2: Communications experiment 46 [1]: As part of an experiment to facilitate international telecommunications, the US Military deployed an artificial space ring consisting of hundreds of millions of tiny copper needles [2] which would act as antennas reflecting radio signals at the target wavelength of 8 GHz.
The first space rendezvous was accomplished by Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 in 1965.. Records and firsts in spaceflight are broadly divided into crewed and uncrewed categories. Records involving animal spaceflight have also been noted in earlier experimental flights, typically to establish the feasibility of sending humans to outer space.
There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951. The 2024 list and lists for subsequent years contain planned launches, but statistics 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 ...
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union.
1963 June 16 USSR First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova) First civilian in space Vostok 6: 1963 June 19 USSR First Mars flyby, although contact was lost Mars 1: 1963 July 19 USA First reusable piloted spacecraft First spaceplane (suborbital) X-15 Flight 90: 1963 July 26 USA First geosynchronous satellite: Syncom 2: 1964 August 19 USA
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then a United States Air Force major.