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Launches
This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1964.
| Launch date and time | Rocket | Launch site |
Launch contractor | Payload | Operator | Orbit | Mission function |
Re-entry or destruction |
Outcome | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 January, 16:25 GMT | Saturn I (C1) | LC-37B, Cape Canaveral | NASA | SA-5 | NASA | LEO | Test Saturn I rocket | 30 April 1966 | Successful | First all-up test of Saturn I, first flight of S-IV stage |
| 8 April, 16:00 GMT | Titan II | LC-19, Cape Canaveral | NASA | Gemini 1 | NASA | LEO | Test Gemini spacecraft | 12 April 1964 | Successful | First Gemini flight, first orbital Titan II launch |
| 28 May, 17:07 GMT | Saturn I (C1) | LC-37B, Cape Canaveral | NASA | A-101 (Apollo BP-13) | NASA | LEO | Apollo Boilerplate test. | 2 June 1964 | Successful | First Apollo boilerplate launch |
| 18 September, 16:22 GMT | Saturn I (C1) | LC-37B, Cape Canaveral | NASA | A-102 (Apollo BP-15]]) | NASA | LEO | Apollo Spacecraft Boilerplate test. | 22 September 1964 | Successful | |
| 12 October, 07:30 GMT | Voskhod (R-7 11A57/A1) | LC-1/5, Baikonur | RVSN | Voskhod 1, 3 Cosmonauts | MOM | LEO | Manned orbital flight | 13 October 1964, 07:47 GMT | Successful | First multi-person spaceflight |
Deep Space Rendezvous in 1964
- 2 February — Ranger 6 deliberately impacted Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon, no pictures taken
- 14 July — Zond 1 flyby of Venus, communication lost en route
- 31 July — Ranger 7 deliberately impacted Mare Nubium on the Moon, 4,308 pictures taken
References
- Encyclopedia Astronautica
- Gunter's Space Page - Chronology of Space Launches
- JAXA
- Jonathan's Space Report (SatCat.txt and Launchlog.txt)
- Mission Set Database (NASA GFC)
- NASA
- NASA SpaceFlight.com
- Orbital Report News Agency's Launch Logs
- Space Calendar (NASA JPL)
- Southwest Space Archive
- SPACE.com Launch Forecast
- SpaceFlightNow
- Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive
- U.S. Space Objects Registry
- Хроника освоения космоса (Russian)
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