Mission |
Spacecraft |
Crew |
Mission duration [UTC] |
Landing site |
Purpose / mission highlights / noticeable events |
no. |
designation |
callsign |
|
lift-off |
landing |
|
|
|
Mercury |
|
1 |
MR-3 |
Freedom 7 |
1 |
05/05/1961 |
05/05/1961 |
Atlantic Ocean |
ballistic/suborbital test flight of 15 min, 22 sec duration; Redstone rocket; apogee reached was 187.5 km; landing only 486 km downrange; Alan Shepard |
2 |
MR-4 |
Liberty Bell 7 |
1 |
21/07/1961 |
21/07/1961 |
Atlantic Ocean |
ballistic/suborbital test flight of 15 min, 37 sec duration; Redstone rocket; apogee reached was 190.3 km; landing only 420 km downrange; capsule drowned after splashdown; Virgil Grissom safely recovered |
3 |
MA-6 |
Friendship 7 |
1 |
20/02/1962 |
20/02/1962 |
Atlantic Ocean |
first orbital flight of 4 hrs, 55 min duration (three orbits); Mercury-Atlas rocket; John Glenn |
4 |
MA-7 |
Aurora 7 |
1 |
24/05/1962 |
24/05/1962 |
Atlantic Ocean |
second orbital flight of 4 hrs, 56 min duration (three orbits); Scott Carpenter |
5 |
MA-8 |
Sigma 7 |
1 |
03/10/1962 |
03/10/1962 |
Pacific Ocean |
third orbital flight of 9 hrs, 13 min duration (six orbits); Walter Schirra |
6 |
MA-9 |
Faith 7 |
1 |
15/05/1963 |
16/05/1963 |
Pacific Ocean |
fourth orbital and last Mercury flight of 1 day, 10 hrs, 19 min duration (22 orbits); Gordon Cooper |
|
Mission |
Spacecraft |
Crew |
Mission duration [UTC] |
Landing site |
Purpose / mission highlights / noticeable events |
no. |
designation |
callsign |
|
lift-off |
landing |
|
|
|
Gemini |
|
1 |
Gemini III |
Molly Brown (unofficial) |
2 |
23/03/1965 |
23/03/1965 |
Atlantic Ocean |
first two men crew test flight of 4 hrs, 53 min duration (three orbits); Titan-II rocket; Virgil Grissom, John Young |
2 |
Gemini IV |
Gemini 4 |
2 |
03/06/1965 |
07/06/1965 |
Atlantic Ocean |
first US extravehicular activity (EVA) by Ed White; duration 4 days, 1 hour, 56 minutes (62 orbits); James McDivitt, Edward White |
3 |
Gemini V |
Gemini 5 |
2 |
21/08/1965 |
28/08/1965 |
Atlantic Ocean |
first weeklong mission; rendezvous with Agena fails; duration 7 days, 22 hours, 55 minutes (120 orbits); Gordon Cooper, Charles Conrad |
4 |
Gemini VII |
Gemini 7 |
2 |
04/12/1966 |
18/12/1966 |
Atlantic Ocean |
double mission with Gemini VI-A; rendezvous up to 0.3 m distance; duration 13 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes (206 orbits); Frank Bormann, James Lovell |
5 |
Gemini VI-A |
Gemini 6A |
2 |
15/12/1966 |
16/12/1966 |
Atlantic Ocean |
7.5 hrs formation flight with Gemini VII; several mission delays; duration 1 day, 1 hour, 51 minutes (16 orbits); Walter Schirra, Thomas Stafford |
6 |
Gemini VIII |
Gemini 8 |
2 |
16/03/1966 |
16/03/1966 |
Atlantic Ocean |
first docking with Agena; critically tumbling spacecraft teminates mission; duration 10 hours, 41 minutes (six orbits); Neil Armstrong, David Scott |
7 |
Gemini IX-A |
Gemini 9A |
2 |
03/06/1966 |
06/06/1966 |
Atlantic Ocean |
three rendezvous manoeuvres with Agena; troublesome EVA; duration 3 days, 20 minutes (47 orbits); Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan |
8 |
Gemini X |
Gemini 10 |
2 |
18/07/1966 |
21/07/1966 |
Atlantic Ocean |
several successful docking and rendezvous manoeuvres with Agena; duration 2 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes (43 orbits); John Young, Michael Collins |
9 |
Gemini XI |
Gemini 11 |
2 |
12/09/1966 |
15/09/1966 |
Atlantic Ocean |
successful repeat of Gemini X mission; troublesome EVAs; duration 2 days, 23 hours, 17 minutes (44 orbits); Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon |
10 |
Gemini XII |
Gemini 12 |
2 |
11/11/1966 |
15/11/1966 |
Atlantic Ocean |
final and most successful Gemini flight preparing for Apollo programme; duration 3 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes (59 orbits); James Lovell, Edwin Aldrin |
|
Mission |
Spacecraft |
Crew |
Mission duration [UTC] |
Landing site |
Purpose / mission highlights / noticeable events |
no. |
designation |
callsign (CSM / LM) |
|
lift-off |
landing |
|
|
|
Apollo |
|
- |
Apollo 1 |
- |
3 |
27/01/1967 |
- |
- |
catastrophic fire during launch pad test kills astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee |
1 |
Apollo 7 |
Apollo 7 |
3 |
11/10/1968 |
22/10/1968 |
Atlantic Ocean |
first three man spacecraft; Saturn 1B rocket; Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham |
2 |
Apollo 8 |
Apollo 8 |
3 |
21/12/1968 |
27/12/1968 |
Pacific Ocean |
first manned voyage to the moon (ten lunar orbits); Saturn V rocket; Frank Bormann, James Lovell, William Anders |
3 |
Apollo 9 |
Gumdrop / Spider |
3 (2) |
03/03/1969 |
13/03/1969 |
Atlantic Ocean |
all lunar rendezvous manoeuvres tested in Earth orbit; James McDivitt, David Scott, Russell Schweickart |
4 |
Apollo 10 |
Charlie Brown / Snoopy |
3 (2) |
18/05/1969 |
26/05/1969 |
Pacific Ocean |
moon voyage including simulated descent; Eugene Cernan, John Young, Thomas Stafford |
5 |
Apollo 11 |
Columbia / Eagle |
3 (2) |
16/07/1969 |
23/07/1969 |
Pacific Ocean |
first successful landing on moon; Neil Armstrong (1st), Edwin Aldrin (2nd), Michael Collins |
6 |
Apollo 12 |
Yankee Clipper / Intrepid |
3 (2) |
14/11/1969 |
24/11/1969 |
Pacific Ocean |
second moon landing; lightning strike after lift-off; Charles Conrad, Alan Bean, Richard Gordon |
7 |
Apollo 13 |
Odyssee / Aquarius |
3 |
11/04/1970 |
17/04/1970 |
Pacific Ocean |
oxygen tank explodes on the way to the moon; James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise rescued |
8 |
Apollo 14 |
Kitty Hawk / Antares |
3 (2) |
31/01/1971 |
08/02/1971 |
Pacific Ocean |
third successful landing on moon; Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Stuart Roosa |
9 |
Apollo 15 |
Endeavour / Falcon |
3 (2) |
26/07/1971 |
07/08/1971 |
Pacific Ocean |
fourth moon landing and first use of lunar rover; David Scott, James Irwin, Alfred Worden |
10 |
Apollo 16 |
Casper / Orion |
3 (2) |
16/04/1972 |
27/04/1972 |
Pacific Ocean |
fifth moon landing and second use of lunar rover; John Young, Charles Duke, Thomas Mattingly |
11 |
Apollo 17 |
America / Challenger |
3 (2) |
07/12/1972 |
19/12/1972 |
Pacific Ocean |
final and longest successful moon mission; Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ronald Evans |
12 |
Skylab 2 |
Skylab |
3 |
25/05/1973 |
22/06/1973 |
Pacific Ocean |
docking to first US space station Skylab-1; Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, Paul Weitz |
13 |
Skylab 3 |
Skylab |
3 |
28/07/1973 |
26/09/1973 |
Pacific Ocean |
second visit to Skylab-1; more than 13 hrs EVA; Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma |
14 |
Skylab 4 |
Skylab |
3 |
16/11/1973 |
08/02/1974 |
Pacific Ocean |
final and record breaking (long endurance) Skylab-1 visit; Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson, William Pogue |
15 |
Apollo ASTP |
Apollo |
3 |
15/07/1975 |
24/07/1975 |
Pacific Ocean |
only rendezvous with Russian spacecraft (Soyuz-19); Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, Donald Slayton |
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