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Soyuz | Soyuz 1
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 23, 1967, 12:35 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Soyuz 1 was the first crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, it carried the Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov to orbit. The mission goal was to rendezvous with Soyuz 2 and move crew members between the spacecrafts, the goal was not met due to Soyuz 2 launch being called off due to thunderstorms. Vladimir Komarov was killed when the parachutes of his Soyuz capsule failed during descent to earth becoming the first in-flight fatality of spaceflight.
Low Earth OrbitThor Delta E | ESSA 5
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 20, 1967, 11:21 a.m.
Atlas SLV-3 | PRIME 3
Convair | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 20, 1967, 1:35 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Martin X-23 PRIME (Precision Recovery Including Maneuvering Entry) was a small uncrewed lifting body re-entry vehicle tested by the United States Air Force in the late 1960s. PRIME 3 mission was flown on 19 April 1967 and simulated reentry from low-earth orbit with a 1143 km cross-range. This time, all systems performed perfectly, and the X-23 was successfully recovered.
SuborbitalAtlas Centaur D | Surveyor 3
Convair | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 17, 1967, 7:05 a.m.
Scout A | Transit-O 12
Vought | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 14, 1967, 3:25 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Transit-O series of satellites that closely followed the design of Transit 5C-1 were also called “Oscars” (Oscar is the phonetic alphabet for “O”, i. e., operational). They were also called NNS (Navy Navigation Satellite) or shortened NavSat.
Polar OrbitLambda 4S | Ohsumi 3
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science | JapanUchinoura Space Center, Japan
April 13, 1967, 2:40 a.m.
Voskhod | Zenit-4 28
Soviet Space Program | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 12, 1967, 10:51 a.m.
Proton / UR-500 K/D | Kosmos 154
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 8, 1967, 9 a.m.
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | ATS 2
Convair | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 6, 1967, 3:23 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
ATS 2 (Applications Technology Satellite) was a medium altitude, gravity-gradient-stabilized spacecraft designed to test new concepts in spacecraft design, propulsion, and stabilization, take high-quality cloudcover pictures, provide in situ measurements of the aerospace environment, and test improved communication systems.
Medium Earth OrbitVostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 48
RKK Energiya | RussiaPlesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 4, 1967, 2 p.m.
