MANNED SPACEFLIGHT REACHING EARTH ORBIT

Listed below are the 44 people that had their first journey into Earth orbit during the decade of the 1960s. Also 22 repeat trips from the Earth to orbit happened in this period, giving a total of 66 trips from the Earth into orbit in the 1960's.

When multiple spacecraft launch on the same day, I may not have everyone listed in the correct order. When several people launch on the same spacecraft together, the order they are listed is arbitrary.

Spelling of all non-English names is arbitrary, and may not conform with other reference works. Nicknames may or may not be used here, titles are not used. The focus is on tracking the numbers of the people and not on worrying about the etiquette of addressing them. Many of these people are holders of medical degrees, military ranks and academic doctorates, but no attempt is being made to track that sort of information here.

Comments also show other space related events, so as to provide a more complete timeline.

New Rep Tot Craft        Pro  Name                   Date

 1   -   1  Vostok        R   Gagarin, Yuri          12-Apr-61
                          A   (Alan Shepard has a suborbital flight 5/5/61)
                          A   (Virgil 'Gus' Grissom has a suborbital flight 7/21/61)
 2   -   2  Vostok 2      R   Titov, Gherman         06-Aug-61
 3   -   3  Friendship 7  A   Glenn, John            02-Feb-62
 4   -   4  Aurora 7      A   Carpenter, M Scott     24-May-62
                          A   (First X-15 flight to earn 'Astronaut Wings' 7/17/62)
 5   -   5  Vostok 3      R   Nikolayev, Andrian     11-Aug-62
 6   -   6  Vostok 4      R   Popovich, Pavel        12-Aug-62
 7   -   7  Sigma 7       A   Schirra, Walter        03-Oct-62
 8   -   8  Faith 7       A   Cooper, L Gordon       15-May-63
 9   -   9  Vostok 5      R   Bykovski, Valeri       14-Jun-63
10   -  10  Vostok 6      R   Tereshkova, Valentina  16-Jun-63
                          A   (Highest altitude flight of the X-15 program,
                               reaches 107960 meters 8/22/63)
11   -  11  Voskhod       R   Feoktistov, Konstantin 12-Oct-64
12   -  12  Voskhod       R   Komarov, Vladimir      12-Oct-64
13   -  13  Voskhod       R   Yegorov, Boris         12-Oct-64
14   -  14  Voskhod 2     R   Belayev, Pavel         18-Mar-65
15   -  15  Voskhod 2     R   Leonov, Alexei         18-Mar-65
16   -  16  Gemini 3      A   Grissom, Virgil "Gus"  23-Mar-65
17   -  17  Gemini 3      A   Young, John            23-Mar-65
18   -  18  Gemini 4      A   McDivitt, James        03-Jun-65
19   -  19  Gemini 4      A   White, Edward          03-Jun-65
20   -  20  Gemini 5      A   Conrad, Charles "Pete" 21-Aug-65
 -   1  21  Gemini 5      A   Cooper, L Gordon       21-Aug-65
21   -  22  Gemini 7      A   Borman, Frank          04-Dec-65
22   -  23  Gemini 7      A   Lovell, James          04-Dec-65
23   -  24  Gemini 6      A   Stafford, Thomas       15-Dec-65
 -   2  25  Gemini 6      A   Schirra, Walter        15-Dec-65
24   -  26  Gemini 8      A   Armstrong, Neil        16-Mar-66
25   -  27  Gemini 8      A   Scott, David           16-Mar-66
26   -  28  Gemini 9      A   Cernan, Eugene         03-Jun-66
 -   3  29  Gemini 9      A   Stafford, Thomas       03-Jun-66
27   -  30  Gemini 10     A   Collins, Michael       18-Jul-66
 -   4  31  Gemini 10     A   Young, John            18-Jul-66
28   -  32  Gemini 11     A   Gordon, Richard        12-Sep-66
 -   5  33  Gemini 11     A   Conrad, Charles "Pete" 12-Sep-66
29   -  34  Gemini 12     A   Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz"   11-Nov-66
 -   6  35  Gemini 12     A   Lovell, James          11-Nov-66
                          A   (Apollo 1 ground fire kills three astronauts, 1/27/67)
 -   7  36  Soyuz 1       R   Vladimir Komarov       23-Apr-67 (ends in fatality)
                          A   (Fatal crash in X-15 program, kills pilot Michael Adams, 11/15/67)
30   -  37  Apollo 7      A   Cunningham, R Walter   11-Oct-68
31   -  38  Apollo 7      A   Eisele, Donn           11-Oct-68
 -   8  39  Apollo 7      A   Schirra, Walter        11-Oct-68
                          A   (last flight of the X-15, 10/24/68)
32   -  40  Soyuz 3       R   Beregevoi, Georgi      26-Oct-68 
33   -  41  Apollo 8      A   Anders, William        21-Dec-68
 -   9  42  Apollo 8      A   Borman, Frank          21-Dec-68
 -  10  43  Apollo 8      A   Lovell, James          21-Dec-68
34   -  44  Soyuz 4       R   Shatalov, Vladimir     14-Jan-69
35   -  45  Soyuz 5       R   Khrunov, Yevgeni       15-Jan-69
36   -  46  Soyuz 5       R   Volynov, Boris         15-Jan-69
37   -  47  Soyuz 5       R   Yeliseyev, Alexei      15-Jan-69
38   -  48  Apollo 9      A   Schweikart, Russell    03-Mar-69
 -  11  49  Apollo 9      A   McDivitt, James        03-Mar-69
 -  12  50  Apollo 9      A   Scott, David           03-Mar-69
 -  13  51  Apollo 10     A   Cernan, Eugene         18-May-69
 -  14  52  Apollo 10     A   Stafford, Thomas       18-May-69
 -  15  53  Apollo 10     A   Young, John            18-May-69
 -  16  54  Apollo 11     A   Armstrong, Neil        16-Jul-69
 -  17  55  Apollo 11     A   Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz"   16-Jul-69
 -  18  56  Apollo 11     A   Collins, Michael       16-Jul-69
                          A   (First Moon landing, 7/20/69)
39   -  57  Soyuz 6       R   Kubasov, Valeri        11-Oct-69
40   -  58  Soyuz 6       R   Shonin, Georgi         11-Oct-69
41   -  59  Soyuz 7       R   Filipchenko, Anatoli   12-Oct-69
42   -  60  Soyuz 7       R   Gorbatko, Viktor       12-Oct-69
43   -  61  Soyuz 7       R   Volkov, Vladislav      12-Oct-69
 -  19  62  Soyuz 8       R   Shatalov, Vladimir     13-Oct-69
 -  20  63  Soyuz 8       R   Yeliseyev, Alexei      13-Oct-69
44   -  64  Apollo 12     A   Bean, Alan             14-Nov-69
 -  21  65  Apollo 12     A   Conrad, Charles "Pete" 14-Nov-69
 -  22  66  Apollo 12     A   Gordon, Richard        14-Nov-69
                          A   (Second Moon landing, 11/19/69)

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