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Juno II | S-45

Army Ballistic Missile Agency | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 25, 1961, 12:13 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Unknown Mission

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Thor DM-21 Ablestar | Transit 3B & LOFTI-1

United States Air Force | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 22, 1961, 3:45 a.m.
Status: Launch was a Partial Failure
Unknown Mission

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Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 2

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 21, 1961, 2:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) was an unmanned test flight of the Mercury program using the Atlas rocket. It launched on February 21, 1961 at 14:10 UTC, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Suborbital
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Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 21 (MIDAS RM-2)

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Feb. 18, 1961, 10:57 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-5 1

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Feb. 17, 1961, 8:25 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

KH-5 (Keyhole 5, codenamed Argon) was the area survey component of the Corona program.

Low Earth Orbit
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Scout X-1 | Explorer 9

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Feb. 16, 1961, 1:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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Molniya 8K78 | Venera-1VA 2

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 12, 1961, 12:34 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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Molniya 8K78 | Venera-1VA 1

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Feb. 4, 1961, 1:18 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Unknown Mission

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Atlas LV-3A | Samos 2

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 31, 1961, 8:21 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 2

Chrysler | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Jan. 31, 1961, 4:55 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) was the test flight of the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle just prior to the first crewed American space mission in Project Mercury. Carrying a chimpanzee named Ham on a suborbital flight, Mercury spacecraft Number 5 was launched at 16:55 UTC on January 31, 1961 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The capsule and Ham landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes and 39 seconds after launch.

Suborbital
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