 A North American X-15 made two suborbital flights in July and August, becoming the first reusable spacecraft |
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| Fact Sheet | |
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| Orbital Launches | |
| First | 4 January |
| Last | 21 December |
| Total | 70 |
| Successes | 50 |
| Failures | 17 |
| Partial Failures | 3 |
| Catalogued | 55 |
| Rockets | |
| Maiden Flights | Atlas LV-3A Agena-D Atlas LV-3C Centaur-B Polyot 11A59 Scout X-2B Scout X-3M Scout X-4 Thor DSV-2A Ablestar TAT SLV-2A Agena-B TAT SLV-2A Agena-D Voskhod 11A57 |
| Retirements | Atlas LV-3B Atlas LV-3C Centaur-B Scout X-2B Scout X-2M Scout X-3M |
| Manned flights | |
| Orbital | 3 |
| Suborbital | 2 |
| Total travellers | 4 |
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| ← Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec → |
| Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April | Luna 4 | Flyby of the Moon | Failed lander, closest approach: 8,336 kilometres (5,180 mi) |
| 19 June | Mars 1 | Flyby of Mars | Closest approach: 193,000 kilometres (120,000 mi), communications system failed before flyby |
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| Orbital launch attempts by country in 1963 | ||||||
| Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Soviet Union |
24 | 15 | 9 | 0 | |
 United States |
46 | 35 | 8 | 3 |
| Rocket | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlas LV-3A Agena-B | United States |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Atlas LV-3A Agena-D | United States |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Atlas LV-3B | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Atlas LV-3C Centaur-B | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Only flight |
| Delta B | United States |
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Delta C | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kosmos-2I 63S1 | Soviet Union |
8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| Molniya 8K78 | Soviet Union |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Molniya-L 8K78L | Soviet Union |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Polyot 11A59 | Soviet Union |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Scout X-2B | United States |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Only flight |
| Scout X-2M | United States |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Retired |
| Scout X-3 | United States |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Scout X-3M | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Only flight |
| Scout X-4 | United States |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Maiden flight |
| Thor DSV-2A Ablestar | United States |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Thor DM-21 Agena-B | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thor SLV-2 Agena-D (Thor DM-21 Agena-D) | United States |
8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | Redesignated midyear |
| Thrust Augmented Thor SLV-2A Agena-B | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Thrust Augmented Thor SLV-2A Agena-D | United States |
10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Voskhod 11A57 | Soviet Union |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Vostok-K 8K72K | Soviet Union |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vostok-2 8A92 | Soviet Union |
8 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Orbital regime | Launches | Achieved | Not Achieved | Accidentally Achieved |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low Earth | 57 | 44 | 13 | 2 | |
| Medium Earth | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| High Earth | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | Including Highly elliptical orbits |
| Geosynchronous/transfer | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heliocentric | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1940s | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | |||||||
| 1950s | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | |||
| 1960s | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | |||
| 1970s | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | |||
| 1980s | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | |||
| 1990s | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | |||
| 2000s | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |||
| 2010s | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |||
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