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Trailblazer 1 | Trailblazer 1g

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
April 21, 1961, 5:56 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

An experiment where an actual 'artificial meteorite' was flown. This was a 5.8 g steel pellet, which was driven into the atmosphere at 6 km/sec by a 'seventh stage', a shaped charge that accelerated the pellet after burnout of the rocket's six stage. This experiment provided a known reference by which the size of actual meteoroids could be measured according to the luminance of their trails.

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Vostok-K | Vostok 1

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 12, 1961, 6:07 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The first crewed space launch & the first orbital launch. It carried the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who completed 1 orbit before safely re-entering the atmosphere, he ejected from his capsule at an altitude of 7 km in order to parachute safely to the ground. The mission lasted 108 minutes.

Low Earth Orbit

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Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-5 2

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 8, 1961, 7:21 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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Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 22

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 30, 1961, 8:34 p.m.

Status: Launch Failure

Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.

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Delta DM-19 | Explorer 10

United States Air Force | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 25, 1961, 3:17 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.

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Vostok-K | Sputnik 10

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 25, 1961, 5:54 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.

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Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone BD

Chrysler | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 24, 1961, 5:30 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Mercury-Redstone BD was an uncrewed booster development flight in the U.S. Mercury program. It was launched on March 24, 1961 from Launch Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission used a boilerplate Mercury spacecraft and Redstone MRLV-5.

Suborbital

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Little Joe | LJ-5A

North American Aviation | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
March 18, 1961, 4:49 p.m.

Status: Launch was a Partial Failure

Mission:

Uncrewed launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. It was an attempted re-test of the failed Little Joe 5 flight.

Suborbital

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