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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).
Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks Atlas LV-3A Agena-A United States: 1: 1: 0: 0: Retired Atlas LV-3A Agena-B United States: 7: 2: 4: 1: Maiden flight Atlas LV-3B United States: 3: 2: 1: 0: First orbital launch RM-90 Blue Scout II United States: 1: 0: 1: 0: First orbital launch Juno II United States: 3: 1: 2: 0: Retired Kosmos ...
The United States awards astronaut wings to qualified personnel who pilot a spaceflight above an altitude of 50 miles (80 km). As of the launch of SpaceX Crew-9 on 28 September 2024, there have been 391 human spaceflight launches. Two missions did not cross either the Kármán line or the U.S. definition of space and therefore do not qualify as ...
The last orbital launch from San Marco was on 25 March 1988 by US Scout G-1 and there are no further launches scheduled. Australia with the first successful launch from Woomera Test Range of its first satellite WRESAT on 29 November 1967 by US Sparta . [ 11 ]
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.
Space Launch System (2022-present) RS1 (2023-present) Terran 1 (2023) SpaceX Starship (2023-present) Vulcan Centaur (2024-present) New Glenn (Under development, expected 2024) Rocket 4 (Under development, expected 2025) Neutron (Under development, expected 2025) Red Dwarf (Under development, expected 2024) Nova (Under development, expected 2025)
Toggle Orbital launch summary subsection. 2.1 By country. 2.2 By rocket. 2.3 By orbit. ... United States: Orbital launch attempts by country in 1962: Country Launches
Start date/time Duration End time Spacecraft Crew Remarks 18 March 08:34 12 minutes: 08:47 Voskhod 2: Alexei Leonov: First EVA in history. [1] Leonov had difficulty fitting back into the spacecraft due to spacesuit stiffness in vacuum.