1970 in spaceflight

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[edit] Launches

This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1970.

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Launch Date/Time Rocket Launch
Site		 Launch Contractor Payload Operator Orbit Mission/
Function		 Re-Entry/
Destruction		 Outcome Remarks
March 3
21:15 GMT		 Black Arrow Woomera RAE (none) N/A N/A Test LV N/A Successful
April 11
19:13 GMT		 Saturn V (C-5) LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center NASA Apollo 13 CSM Odyssey NASA Intended: Lunar orbit
Actual: Lunar free return		 Manned Lunar orbit. April 15, 1970 Failure Explosion in Service Module crippled spacecraft, resulting in mission abort.
Apollo 13 LM Aquarius NASA Intended: Lunar landing
Actual: Lunar free return		 Manned lunar landing April 15, 1970 Failure Mission aborted due to CSM malfunction. LM used to help bring crew back to Earth.
April 24 Long March 1 Rocket North West Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center PRC Dong Fang Hong I PRC LEO Test satellite Unknown Successful First satellite launched by China
June 1
19:00 GMT		 Soyuz
(R-7/A-2)		 Gagarin's Start, Baikonur RVSN Soyuz 9
2 Cosmonauts		 RVSN LEO Manned Orbital Spaceflight June 19, 1970
11:58 GMT		 Successful Longest Manned flight involving only one spacecraft.
(As of 09/06/06)
June 1
19:00 GMT		 Black Arrow Woomera RAE Orba RAE LEO Micrometeoroid detection satellite June 19, 1970
11:58 GMT		 Failure First British attempt to launch a satellite. Failed to reach orbit after premature 2nd stage cutout.
December 12
10:54 GMT		 Scout B San Marco mobile range, Kenya CRA Uhuru NASA LEO X-ray astronomy Still in orbit Successful First satellite dedicated to X-ray astronomy.

[edit] Deep Space Rendez-vous in 1970

[edit] References

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Preceded by
1969		 Timeline of spaceflight
1970		 Succeeded by
1971