This decade saw Neil Armstrong become the first man to stand on the moon. It also saw flybys of Mars and atmospheric sampling of VenusThere were robotic soft landings on the moon and a manned flight rounded it. |
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Mission |
Launch |
End |
Details |
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| Luna 1960A |  |
1960 | Failed | ||
| Luna 1960B |
|
1960 | Failed | ||
| Pioneer P-30 |
|
1960 | Failed | ||
| Marsnik 1 |
|
1960 | Failed | ||
| Marsnik 2 |
|
1960 | Failed | ||
| Pioneer P-31 |
|
1960 | Failed | ||
| Korabl-Sputnik 1 |
|
1960 | Partial Failure | ||
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Korabl-Sputnik 2 |
|
1960 | 1960 | ||
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Korabl-Sputnik 3 |
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1960 | Partial Fail | ||
|
Korabl-Sputnik 4 |
|
1960 | Failed | ||
| Sputnik 7 |
|
1961 | Failed | ||
| Venera 1 |
|
1961 | Failed | Mission to Venus. Contact was lost but craft achieved orbit | |
| Ranger 1 |
|
1961 | Failed | ||
| Ranger 2 |
|
1961 | Failed | ||
| Vostok 1 |
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1961 | 1961 | Yuri Gagarin first man in space | |
| Vostok 2 |
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1961 | 1961 | First manned mission lasting a full day | |
| Ranger 3 |
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1962 | Failed | ||
| Ranger 4 |
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1962 | 1962 | Disabled craft crashed into moon | |
| Mariner 1 |
|
1962 | Failed | ||
| Sputnik 19 |
|
1962 | Failed | ||
| Mariner 2 |
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1962 | 1963 | Measured solar wind and interplanetary dust. Flyby and measurements of Venus | |
| Sputnik 20 |
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1962 | Failed | ||
| Sputnik 21 |
|
1962 | Failed | ||
| Ranger 5 |
|
1962 | Failed | ||
| Sputnik 22 |
|
1962 | Failed | ||
| Mars 1 |
|
1962 | Failed | ||
| Sputnik 24 |
|
1962 | Failed | ||
| Friendship 7 |
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1962 | 1962 | First American in Space | |
| Vostok 3 & 4 |
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1962 | 1962 | First simultaneous flight of two manned spacecraft. | |
| Sputnik 25 |
|
1963 | Failed | ||
| Luna 1963B |
|
1963 | Failed | ||
| Luna 4 |
|
1963 | Failed | ||
| Cosmos 21 |
|
1963 | Failed | ||
| Vostok 5 |
|
1963 | 1963 | ||
| Vostok 6 |
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1963 | 1963 | Valentina Tereshkova first woman in space | |
| Ranger 6 |
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1964 | 1964 | Impacted with moon as planned | |
| Venera 1964A |
|
1964 | Failed | ||
| Venera 1964B |
|
1964 | Failed | ||
| Luna 1964A |
|
1964 | Failed | ||
| Cosmos 27 |
|
1964 | Failed | ||
| Zond 1 |
|
1964 | Failed | ||
| Luna 1964B |
|
1964 | Failed | ||
| Zond 1964A |
|
1964 | Failed | ||
| Ranger 7 |
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1964 | 1964 | Took pictures during it’s planned lunar impact | |
| Mariner 3 |
|
1964 | Failed | ||
| Mariner 4 |
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1964 | 1968 | First flyby and pictures of Mars | |
| Zond 2 |
|
1964 | Failed | ||
| Ranger 8 |
|
1965 | 1965 | Took pictures during it’s planned lunar impact | |
| Cosmos 60 |
|
1965 | Failed | ||
| Ranger 9 |
|
1965 | 1965 | Took pictures during it’s planned lunar impact | |
| Luna 1965A |
|
1965 | Failed | ||
| Luna 5 |
|
1965 | 1965 | Lunar Impact | |
| Luna 6 |
|
1965 | Failed | ||
| Zond 3 |
|
1965 | 1965 | Lunar flyby | |
| Luna 7 |
|
1965 | Failed | ||
| Venera 2 |
|
1965 | Failed | ||
| Venera 3 |
|
1965 | Failed | Spacecraft failed but became first to impact Venus | |
| Cosmos 96 |
|
1965 | Failed | ||
| Venera 1965A |
|
1965 | Failed | ||
| Luna 8 |
|
1965 | 1965 | Lunar Impact | |
| Luna 9 |
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1966 | 1966 | First soft landing and pictures from the moon | |
| Cosmos 111 |
|
1966 | Failed | ||
| Luna 10 |
|
1966 | 1966 | Lunar orbiter | |
| Luna 1966A |
|
1966 | Failed | ||
| Surveyor 1 |
|
1966 | 1967 | First US soft landing and pictures from the moon | |
| Explorer 33 |
|
1966 | Failed | ||
| Lunar Orbiter 1 |
|
1966 | 1966 | Lunar orbiter | |
| Luna 11 |
|
1966 | 1966 | Lunar orbiter | |
| Surveyor 2 |
|
1966 | Failed | ||
| Luna 12 |
|
1966 | 1967 | Lunar orbiter | |
| Lunar Orbiter 2 |
|
1966 | 1967 | Lunar orbiter | |
| Luna 13 |
|
1966 | 1967 | Lunar lander | |
| Lunar Orbiter 3 |
|
1967 | 1967 | ||
| Surveyor 3 |
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1967 | 1967 | moon landing and pictures. Took and analysed soil sample | |
| Lunar Orbiter 4 |
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1967 | 1967 | Lunar orbiter | |
| Venera 4 |
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1967 | 1967 | Sampled Venus atmosphere until broke up | |
| Mariner 5 |
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1967 | 1967 | Venus flyby | |
| Cosmos 167 |
|
1967 | Failed | ||
| Surveyor 4 |
|
1967 | Failed | ||
| Explorer 35 (IMP-E) |
|
1967 | 1973 | Interplanetary research mission | |
| Lunar Orbiter 5 |
|
1967 | 1968 | Lunar orbiter | |
| Surveyor 5 |
|
1967 | 1967 | As surveyor 3 at different site | |
| Zond 1967A |
|
1967 | Failed | ||
| Surveyor 6 |
|
1967 | 1967 | As surveyor 3 at different site | |
| Zond 1967B |
|
1967 | Failed | ||
| Surveyor 7 |
|
1968 | 1968 | As surveyor 3 at different site | |
| Luna 1968A |
|
1968 | Failed | ||
| Zond 4 |
|
1968 | 1968 | Flight aimed away from Moon to test systems | |
| Luna 14 |
|
1968 | 1968 | Lunar orbiter | |
| Zond 1968A |
|
1968 | Failed | ||
| Zond 5 |
|
1968 | 1968 | Mission rounded Moon and successfully returned to an Earth splashdown | |
| Zond 6 |
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1968 | 1968 | Mission rounded Moon and successfully returned to a landing in USSR | |
| Apollo 8 |
|
1968 | 1968 | First manned mission to round Moon | |
| Venera 5 |
|
1969 | 1969 | Sampled Venus atmosphere until broke up | |
| Venera 6 |
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1969 | 1969 | Sampled Venus atmosphere until broke up | |
| Zond 1969A |
|
1969 | Failed | ||
| Luna 1969A |
|
1969 | Failed | ||
| Zond LIS-1 |
|
1969 | Failed | ||
| Mariner 6 |  |
1969 | 1969 | Mars flyby | |
| Mariner 7 |
|
1969 | 1969 | Mars flyby | |
| Mars 1969A |
|
1969 | Failed | ||
| Mars 1969B |
|
1969 | Failed | ||
| Luna 1969B |
|
1969 | Failed | ||
| Apollo 10 |
|
1969 | 1969 | Crewed lunar orbiting mission | |
| Luna 1969C |
|
1969 | Failed | ||
| Zond LIS-2 |
|
1969 | Failed | ||
| Luna 15 |
|
1969 | 1969 | Lunar orbiter | |
| Apollo 11 |
|
1969 | 1969 | First landing of man on the Moon by Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin | |
| Zond 7 |
|
1969 | 1969 | Rounded Moon and successful landing in USSR | |
| Cosmos 300 |
|
1969 | Failed | ||
| Cosmos 305 |
|
1969 | Failed | ||
| Apollo 12 |  |
1969 | 1968 | Crewed lunar landing | |