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Voskhod | Voskhod 1
Soviet Space Program | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 12, 1964, 7:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Voskhod 1 was the seventh manned Soviet space flight(Commander-Vladimir Komarov, Engineer Konstantin Feoktistov, and Medical Doctor Boris Yegorov) . It achieved a number of "firsts" in the history of manned spaceflight, being the first space flight to carry more than one crewman into orbit, the first flight without the use of spacesuits, and the first to carry either an engineer or a physician into outer space. It also set a manned spacecraft altitude record of 336 km (209 mi).
Low Earth OrbitScout X-4 | Beacon Explorer B
Vought | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 10, 1964, 3:01 a.m.
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 12
Convair | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 7, 1964, 7:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:
The Program 206 satellite, carrying the KH-7 (Keyhole 7) camera system (codenamed Gambit-1), was the first successful high resolution space reconnaissance program. It was managed by NRO's Program A, the USAF-led segment of the National Reconnaissance Program managed from Los Angeles AFB in El Segundo, California.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Thor DM-21 Ablestar | Transit-O 1
United States Air Force | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 6, 1964, 5:04 p.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 OrbitVoskhod | Voskhod-3KV 1
Soviet Space Program | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 6, 1964, 7 a.m.
Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 11
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 5, 1964, 9:50 p.m.
Thor Delta C | Explorer 21
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Oct. 4, 1964, 3:45 a.m.
Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 22
RKK Energiya | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 24, 1964, 12:04 p.m.
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 11
Convair | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 23, 1964, 8:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Program 206 satellite, carrying the KH-7 (Keyhole 7) camera system (codenamed Gambit-1), was the first successful high resolution space reconnaissance program. It was managed by NRO's Program A, the USAF-led segment of the National Reconnaissance Program managed from Los Angeles AFB in El Segundo, California.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Saturn I | Saturn-SA 7
Chrysler | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Sept. 18, 1964, 4:22 p.m.
