List of human spaceflights, 1961–70

This is a detailed listing of human spaceflights from 1961 to 1970, spanning the Soviet Vostok and Voskhod programs, the start of the Soviet Soyuz program, the American Mercury and Gemini programs, and the first lunar landings of the American Apollo program.

• Red indicates fatalities.
• Green indicates sub-orbital spaceflight (including flights that failed to attain intended orbit).
• Grey indicates flights to the Moon.
• Note: The USA defines spaceflight as any flight reaching an altitude of 50 miles, while the FAI definition requires an altitude of 100 km. During the 1960s, 13 manned flights of the U.S. North American X-15 rocket plane met the U.S. criteria and only two the FAI's. This list includes only the latter two flights. (See the North American X-15 article for a list of all 13 flights.)

#	Crew	Launch Spacecraft	Habitation		Return Spacecraft	Brief Mission Summary
1	Yuri Gagarin	12 April 1961 Vostok 1				First manned spaceflight. Completed one Earth orbit.
2	Alan B. Shepard	5 May 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7)				First American manned suborbital spaceflight (altitude 187 kilometres, 116 miles).
3	Virgil I. Grissom	21 July 1961 Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7)				Second American manned suborbital flight (altitude 118.26 mi, 190 km).
4	Gherman Titov	6 August 1961 Vostok 2		7 August 1961 Vostok 2		Day-long flight. Completed 17 Earth orbits. Brief manual control by pilot.
5	John H. Glenn	20 February 1962 Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)				First American manned orbital flight. Completed three orbits.
6	M. Scott Carpenter	24 May 1962 Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7)				First manual retrofire. Earth photography and study of liquids in weightless conditions.
7	Andriyan Nikolayev	11 August 1962 Vostok 3		15 August 1962 Vostok 3		First instance of two manned spacecraft in orbit simultaneously.
8	Pavel Popovich	12 August 1962 Vostok 4		15 August 1962 Vostok 4		First instance of two manned spacecraft in orbit simultaneously.
9	Walter M. Schirra	3 October 1962 Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7)				First flawless Mercury mission.
10	L. Gordon Cooper	15 May 1963 Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7)		16 May 1963 Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7)		First live TV from U.S. astronaut.
11	Valery Bykovsky	14 June 1963 Vostok 5		19 June 1963 Vostok 5		Longest solo spaceflight.
12	Valentina Tereshkova	16 June 1963 Vostok 6		19 June 1963 Vostok 6		First woman in space.
13	Joseph A. Walker	19 July 1963 Flight 90, X-15				First winged craft in space. Reached altitude of 106 km.
14	Joseph A. Walker	22 August 1963 Flight 91, X-15				Reached altitude of 108 km. Walker becomes first person to fly into space twice. X-15 #3 (serial 56-6672) becomes first vehicle to fly into space twice.
15	Vladimir Komarov Konstantin Feoktistov Boris Yegorov	12 October 1964 Voskhod 1		13 October 1964 Voskhod 1		First multiple person spaceflight. Biomedical research.
16	Alexey Leonov Pavel Belyayev	18 March 1965 Voskhod 2		19 March 1965 Voskhod 2		First EVA.
17	Virgil I. Grissom John W. Young	23 March 1965 Gemini 3				First to perform orbital maneuvers.
18	James A. McDivitt Edward H. White	3 June 1965 Gemini 4		7 June 1965 Gemini 4		First American EVA.
19	L. Gordon Cooper Charles P. Conrad	21 August 1965 Gemini 5		29 August 1965 Gemini 5		First one week spaceflight. Cooper becomes the first person to orbit the Earth on two different missions.
20	Frank F. Borman James A. Lovell	4 December 1965 Gemini 7		18 December 1965 Gemini 7		First two-week spaceflight. First space rendezvous in history with Gemini 6A.
21	Walter M. Schirra Thomas P. Stafford	15 December 1965 Gemini 6A		16 December 1965 Gemini 6A		First space rendezvous in history with Gemini 7.
22	Neil A. Armstrong David R. Scott	16 March 1966 Gemini 8		17 March 1966 Gemini 8		First docking in space in history with Agena Target Vehicle Planned EVA canceled due to early re-entry necessitated by stuck thruster.
23	Thomas P. Stafford Eugene A. Cernan	3 June 1966 Gemini 9A		6 June 1966 Gemini 9A		First backup crew to fly space mission.
24	John W. Young Michael Collins	18 July 1966 Gemini 10		21 July 1966 Gemini 10		First rendezvous with two different objects.
25	Charles P. Conrad Richard F. Gordon, Jr.	12 September 1966 Gemini 11		15 September 1966 Gemini 11		Held altitude record prior to lunar missions (1374 km).
26	James A. Lovell Edwin E. Aldrin	11 November 1966 Gemini 12		15 November 1966 Gemini 12		First manual rendezvous. Miscellaneous scientific experiments.
27	Vladimir Komarov	23 April 1967 Soyuz 1		24 April 1967 Soyuz 1		Crashed on re-entry. First fatality during spaceflight.
28	Walter M. Schirra Donn F. Eisele R. Walter Cunningham	11 October 1968 Apollo 7		22 October 1968 Apollo 7		First three person U.S. crew. Launched over 20 months after Apollo 1 fatalities.
29	Georgy Beregovoy	26 October 1968 Soyuz 3		30 October 1968 Soyuz 3		Failed to dock with unmanned Soyuz 2.
30	Frank F. Borman James A. Lovell William A. Anders	21 December 1968 Apollo 8		27 December 1968 Apollo 8		First manned lunar orbit.
31	Vladimir Shatalov	14 January 1969 Soyuz 4		17 January 1969 Soyuz 4		First crew transfer between space vehicles. First docking of two manned spacecraft.
32	Aleksei Yeliseyev Yevgeny Khrunov	15 January 1969 Soyuz 5		17 January 1969 Soyuz 4		First crew transfer between space vehicles. First docking of two manned spacecraft.
	Boris Volynov			18 January 1969 Soyuz 5
33	James A. McDivitt David R. Scott Russell L. Schweickart	3 March 1969 Apollo 9		13 March 1969 Apollo 9		Tested Lunar Module in low Earth orbit.
34	Thomas P. Stafford John W. Young Eugene A. Cernan	18 May 1969 Apollo 10		26 May 1969 Apollo 10		Tested Lunar Module in low lunar orbit.
35	Neil A. Armstrong Michael Collins Edwin E. Aldrin	16 July 1969 Apollo 11	Moon		24 July 1969 Apollo 11	First lunar landing.
36	Georgy Shonin Valeri Kubasov	11 October 1969 Soyuz 6		16 October 1969 Soyuz 6		First three-craft spaceflight.
37	Anatoly Filipchenko Vladislav Volkov Viktor Gorbatko	12 October 1969 Soyuz 7		17 October 1969 Soyuz 7		First three-craft spaceflight.
38	Vladimir Shatalov Aleksei Yeliseyev	13 October 1969 Soyuz 8		18 October 1969 Soyuz 8		First three-craft spaceflight.
39	Charles P. Conrad Richard F. Gordon, Jr. Alan Bean	14 November 1969 Apollo 12	Moon		24 November 1969 Apollo 12	Second lunar landing. Precision landing near Surveyor 3.
40	James A. Lovell John L. Swigert Fred W. Haise	11 April 1970 Apollo 13		17 April 1970 Apollo 13		Lunar landing aborted following explosion en route.
41	Andriyan Nikolayev Vitaliy Sevastyanov	1 June 1970 Soyuz 9		19 June 1970 Soyuz 9		Investigations into effects of prolonged spaceflight. Record duration mission for single spacecraft.

See also

A chart showing relative accomplishments in human spaceflights (along with probes) visually graphing how the Soviet Union was far ahead of the U.S. in the early 1960s, but lost that lead in the middle of the decade. By the end of the decade, the U.S. had established unquestioned superiority by accomplishing President Kennedy's Moon challenge.

A chart showing U.S. astronaut assignments during the 1960s through the Apollo era.