1960 in spaceflight

none March 2022 August 2021 January 2014 1960 Escape rocket of Mercury-Redstone 1.jpg The launch escape system fires following the failed launch of Mercury-Redstone 1 4 February 22 December 38 19 19 0 19 Atlas-AgenaMolniyaScout X-1Thor DM-18 Able-IVThor DM-21 AblestarThor DM-21 Agena-BThor DM-19 DeltaVostok-LVostok-K Atlas-AbleLunaThor-AbleThor DM-18 Agena-AVostok-L Japan 1870China 1960 in spaceflight featured a majority of launches conducted by the United States, with the Soviet Union launching less than a fourth of flights that year. The majority of flights this year were sub-orbital. Timeline of spaceflight 1959 1961 2 Orbital and Suborbital launches 1960 in spaceflight (January–April) 1960 in spaceflight (May–August) 1960 in spaceflight (September-December) Orbital launch statistics By country 120 false left [ {"value":290, "color":"#484785", "label": "United States: 29 (76.32%)"}, {"value":90, "color":"#a52a2a", "label": "Soviet Union: 9 (23.68%) "}, ] Country Launches Successes Failures Partialfailures 9 3 6 0 29 16 13 0 World 38 19 19 0 By rocket Rocket Country Family Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks Atlas-Able Atlas 2 0 2 0 Retired Atlas LV-3A Agena-A Atlas 3 1 2 0 Maiden flight Juno II Jupiter 2 1 1 0 Luna 8K72 USSR 1955 R-7 2 0 2 0 Retired Molniya 8K78 USSR 1955 R-7 2 0 2 0 Maiden flight Scout X-1 Scout 1 0 1 0 Maiden flight Thor DM-18 Able-II Thor 1 1 0 0 Retired Thor DM-18 Able-IV Thor 1 1 0 0 Only flight Thor DM-21 Ablestar Thor 5 3 2 0 Maiden flight Thor DM-18 Agena-A Thor 7 4 3 0 Retired Thor DM-21 Agena-B Thor 4 3 1 0 Maiden flight Thor DM-19 Delta Thor 3 2 1 0 Maiden flight Vostok-L 8K72 USSR 1955 R-7 4 3 1 0 Only flights Vostok-K 8K72K USSR 1955 R-7 1 0 1 0 Maiden flight By family Rocket Country Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks Atlas 5 1 4 0 Jupiter 2 1 1 0 R7 USSR 1955 9 3 6 0 Scout 1 0 1 0 Thor 21 14 7 0 By orbit Orbital regime Launches Successes Failures AccidentallyAchieved Remarks Low Earth 26 16 10 0 Medium Earth 4 2 2 0 High Earth 1 0 1 0 Including Highly elliptical orbits Heliocentric 7 1 6 0 References Further reading Bergin Chris NASASpaceFlight.com http://www.nasaspaceflight.com none Clark Stephen Spaceflight Now http://www.spaceflightnow.com none Kelso T.S. Satellite Catalog (SATCAT) https://celestrak.com/satcat/search.php CelesTrak none Krebs Gunter Chronology of Space Launches http://space.skyrocket.de/directories/chronology.htm none Kyle Ed Space Launch Report http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20091005063125/http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/ 2009-10-05 2022-08-13 none McDowell Jonathan GCAT Orbital Launch Log https://planet4589.org/space/gcat/data/derived/launchlog.html none Pietrobon Steven Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/ none Wade Mark Encyclopedia Astronautica http://www.astronautix.com none Webb Brian Southwest Space Archive http://www.spacearchive.info/index.htm none Zak Anatoly Russian Space Web http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ none ISS Calendar http://spaceflight101.com/iss/iss-calendar/ Spaceflight 101 29 October 2025 3 January 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180103010821/http://spaceflight101.com/iss/iss-calendar/ dead NSSDCA Master Catalog https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/ NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Хроника освоения космоса Chronicle of space exploration http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/chrono/index.shtml CosmoWorld Russian Rocket Launch Manifest https://nextspaceflight.com/ Next Spaceflight Space Launch Plans https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/index.php?board=21.0 Novosti Kosmonavtiki Space Satellite Tracking https://www.n2yo.com/ N2YO center on 1960 no 1960 on expanded Category:Spaceflight by year