1964 in spaceflight

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Contents 1 Launches 2 Deep Space Rendezvous in 1964 3 References 3.1 Footnotes

Launches

This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1964.

Date/Time (UTC)	Rocket	Site	LSP	Payload	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome	Remarks
6 January[1]	Nike Zeus	Kwajalein	US Army		US Army	Sub-orbital	Test missile	6 January	Successful	Apogee: 200 kilometres (120 mi)
8 January 00:00[1]	Polaris A3	LC-29A, Canaveral	US Navy		US Navy	Sub-orbital	Test missile	8 January	Successful	Apogee: 1,000 kilometres (620 mi)
8 January 13:15[1]	Nike Apache	Thumba	NASA		ISRO	Sub-orbital	Aeronomy	8 January	Successful	Apogee: 187 kilometres (116 mi)
11 January 20:07[2]	Thor-Agena SLV-2A	SLC-1E, Vandenberg	US Air Force	Ferret	US Air Force	LEO	ELINT	In orbit	Successful
				GGSE-1	NRL	LEO	Technology	In orbit	Successful
				SECOR-1	US Army	LEO	Geodetics	In orbit	Successful
				Solrad-7A	NRL	LEO	SIGINT	In orbit	Successful
				NRL-135	NRL	LEO	ELINT	In orbit	Successful
29 January 16:25	Saturn I	LC-37B, Canaveral	NASA	SA-5	NASA	LEO	Test rocket	30 April 1966	Successful	First all-up test of Saturn I, first flight of S-IV stage
8 April 16:00	Titan II	LC-19, Canaveral	NASA	Gemini 1	NASA	LEO	Test Gemini spacecraft	12 April	Successful	First Gemini flight, first orbital Titan II launch
28 May 17:07	Saturn I	LC-37B, Canaveral	NASA	A-101	NASA	LEO	Boilerplate Apollo spacecraft	2 June	Successful	First Apollo boilerplate test Apollo BP-13
18 September 16:22	Saturn I	LC-37B, Canaveral	NASA	A-102	NASA	LEO	Boilerplate Apollo spacecraft	22 September	Successful	Apollo BP-15
12 October 07:30	Voskhod 11A57	LC-1/5, Baikonur	RVSN	Voskhod 1	MOM	LEO	Manned orbital flight	13 October 07:47	Successful	First multi-person spaceflight 3 cosmonauts
Unknown	Sidewinder-Raven	White Sands	ERDL		ERDL	Suborbital	Test flight	10-15 minutes after launch	Successful	Apogee: 113 kilometres (70 mi)

← Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec →

[edit] 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

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

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