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Launches

This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1965.

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Launch Date/Time Rocket Launch
Site		 Launch Contractor Payload Operator Orbit Mission/
Function		 Re-Entry/
Destruction		 Outcome Remarks
January 19
14:04 GMT		 Titan II LC-19, Cape Canaveral US Air Force Gemini 2 NASA Sub-orbital Test heatshield January 19, 1965 Successful
February 16
14:37 GMT		 Saturn I LC-37B, Cape Canaveral NASA Pegasus 1 NASA LEO Micrometeoroid Detection Satellite September 17, 1978 Successful
Apollo CSM Boilerplate 16 NASA LEO Apollo Spacecraft Boilerplate test July 10, 1985 Successful Used as payload fairing
March 18
07:00 GMT		 Voskhod (R-7 11A57) LC-1/5, Baikonur RVSN Voskhod 2, 2 cosmonauts RVSN LEO Manned Orbital Flight March 19, 1965 Successful Performed first EVA (Spacewalk)
March 23
14:24 GMT		 Titan II LC-19, Cape Canaveral US Air Force Gemini 3, 2 Astronauts NASA LEO Manned Orbital Flight March 23, 1965 Successful First American spaceflight with multiple crew members
May 25
07:35 GMT		 Saturn I LC-37B, Cape Canaveral NASA Pegasus 2 NASA LEO Micrometeoroid Detection Satellite November 3, 1979 Successful
Apollo CSM Boilerplate 26 NASA LEO Apollo Spacecraft Boilerplate test July 8, 1989 Successful Used as payload fairing
June 3
15:16 GMT		 Titan II LC-19, Cape Canaveral US Air Force Gemini 4, 2 Astronauts NASA LEO Manned Orbital Flight June 7, 1965 Successful First American EVA
July 30
13:00 GMT		 Saturn I LC-37B, Cape Canaveral NASA Pegasus 3 NASA LEO Micrometeoroid Detection Satellite August 4, 1969 Successful Final launch of Saturn I
Apollo CSM Boilerplate 9A NASA LEO Apollo Spacecraft Boilerplate test November 22, 1975 Successful Final launch of Saturn I
Spacecraft used as payload fairing
August 21
14:00 GMT		 Titan II LC-19, Cape Canaveral US Air Force Gemini 5, 2 Astronauts NASA LEO Manned Orbital Flight August 29, 1965 Successful
October 25
15:00 GMT		 Atlas D LC-14, Cape Canaveral US Air Force GATV 5002 NASA LEO Gemini 6 docking target T + 6 minutes Failure Exploded during ascent to orbit
November 26
GMT		 A-1 Asterix French space agency France Low Earth orbit Technology November 26, 1965 Successful First French launched satellite
December 4
19:30 GMT		 Titan II LC-19, Cape Canaveral US Air Force Gemini 7, 2 Astronauts NASA LEO Manned Orbital Flight December 18, 1965 Successful
December 15
13:37 GMT		 Titan II LC-19, Cape Canaveral US Air Force Gemini 6A, 2 Astronauts NASA LEO Manned Orbital Flight December 16, 1965 Successful

Deep Space Rendez-vous in 1965

  • February 20 — Ranger 8, 7,137 pictures before deliberate impact at Mare Tranquillitatis
  • March 24 — Ranger 9, 5,814 pictures before deliberate impact at Alphonsus Crater
  • May 12 — Luna 5 impacted the Moon (lander mission)
  • June 11 — Luna 6 missed the Moon by 160,000 km (lander mission)
  • July 15 — Mariner 4 flyby of Mars, 21 pictures
  • July 20 — Zond 3 flyby of the Moon, 25 very good pictures
  • August 6 — Zond 2 flyby of Mars, communication lost en route
  • October 7 — Luna 7 impacted the Moon (lander mission)
  • December 6 — Luna 8 impacted the Moon (lander mission)

References
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