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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 space twice. 15 Vladimir ...
Final flight of Atlas-Able, first stage exploded during ascent 20 December 20:32 Thor DM-21 Agena-B Vandenberg LC-75-3-5 US Air Force Discoverer 19 (MIDAS prototype) ARPA Low Earth (Polar) Technology: 23 January 1961: Successful 22 December 07:45:19 Vostok-K 8K72K Baikonur Site 1/5 RVSN Vostok-1K-4: RVSN Low Earth Test flight: 22 December ...
The replacement, Redstone #7, did not arrive at the Cape until late March; by this time, however, the mission had already been postponed to await the results of another test flight. [6] In late 1960, there had been a growing number of concerns about the safety of the Redstone launch vehicle; the MR-2 test flight, carrying Ham the chimpanzee ...
Mercury-Atlas 1 (MA-1) was the first attempt to launch a Mercury capsule and occurred on July 29, 1960 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was unmanned and carried no launch escape system . The Atlas rocket suffered a structural failure 58 seconds after launch at an altitude of approximately 30,000 feet (9.1 km) and 11,000 feet (3.4 km ...
This is a list of spaceflights launched between January and June 1960. For launches between July and December, see 1960 in spaceflight (July–December). For an overview of the whole year, see 1960 in spaceflight.
Vostok 1 (Russian: Восток, East or Orient) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 12 April 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to reach orbital velocity around the Earth and to complete a full orbit around the Earth.
Enos the Chimpanzee travels to space on NASA's Mercury Atlas 5 1960, YouTube video "Voyage of space chimpanzee Enos ended in Bermuda" by Gail Westerfield; A film clip Chimp into space (no title), 1961/11/30 (1961) is available for viewing at the Internet Archive