Previous Spaceflight Launches
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Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 29
United States Air Force | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 30, 1961, 8 p.m.
Scout X-1 | Explorer 13
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaWallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Aug. 25, 1961, 6:29 p.m.
Atlas LV-3A | Ranger 1
United States Air Force | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Aug. 23, 1961, 10:04 a.m.
Blue Scout Jr | O-1
Vought | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Aug. 17, 1961, 2:29 p.m.
Delta DM-19 | Explorer 12
United States Air Force | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Aug. 16, 1961, 3:21 a.m.
Vostok-K | Vostok 2
Soviet Space Program | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Aug. 6, 1961, 6 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The second crewed space launch carrying the Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov to orbit. The mission lasted 25 hours and 18 minutes and completed 17.5 orbits. He remains the youngest person to reach space, being a month short of 26 at the time of the launch.
Low Earth OrbitThor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 28
United States Air Force | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 4, 1961, 12:01 a.m.
Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-5 4
United States Air Force | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
July 21, 1961, 10:35 p.m.
Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 4
Chrysler | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
July 21, 1961, 12:20 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft, Mercury capsule #11, was nicknamed the Liberty Bell 7, and it was piloted by the astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom.
SuborbitalAtlas LV-3A | MIDAS 3
United States Air Force | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
July 12, 1961, 3:11 p.m.
