List of human spaceflights, 1960s

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This is a detailed listing of human spaceflights from 1961 to 1969, spanning the Soviet Vostok and Voskhod programs, the start of the Soviet Soyuz program, the American Mercury and Gemini programs, and the the first lunar landings of the American Apollo program.

Note: The USA defines spaceflight as any flight reaching an altitude of 50 miles, while the FAI definition requires an altitude of 100 km. During the 1960s, 13 manned flights of the US X-15 rocket plane met the US criteria and only two the FAI's. This list includes only the latter two flights (see the X-15 article for a list of all 13).

• Red indicates fatalities.
• Green indicates suborbital flights (including flights that failed to attain intended orbit).
• Grey indicates flights to the Moon.

Crew	Launch Spacecraft	Habitation		Return Spacecraft	Brief Mission Summary
1961 launches
Yuri Gagarin	12 April 1961 Vostok 1				First manned spaceflight; completed one earth orbit.
Alan Shepard	5 May 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7)				First American manned spaceflight; suborbital (altitude 116 miles).
Virgil "Gus" Grissom	21 July 1961 Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7)				Second American manned suborbital flight (altitude 118 miles).
Gherman Titov	6 August 1961 Vostok 2		7 August 1961 Vostok 2		Day-long flight; completed 17 earth orbits. Brief manual control by pilot.
1962 launches
John Glenn	20 February 1962 Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)				First American manned orbital flight; completed 3 orbits.
Scott Carpenter	24 May 1962 Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7)				First manual retrofire. Earth photography and study of liquids in weightless conditions.
Andrian Nikolayev	11 August 1962 Vostok 3		15 August 1962 Vostok 3		First instance of two manned spacecraft in orbit simultaneously.
Pavel Popovich	12 August 1962 Vostok 4		15 August 1962 Vostok 4
Wally Schirra	3 October 1962 Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7)				First flawless Mercury mission.
1963 launches
Gordon Cooper	15 May 1963 Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7)				First live TV from U.S. astronaut.
Valery Bykovsky	14 June 1963 Vostok 5		19 June 1963 Vostok 5		Longest solo spaceflight.
Valentina Tereshkova	16 June 1963 Vostok 6		19 June 1963 Vostok 6		First woman in space.
Joseph A. Walker	19 July 1963 X-15 Flight 90				First winged craft in space; reached altitude of 106 km.
Joseph A. Walker	23 August 1963 X-15 Flight 91				Reached altitude of 108 km. Walker becomes first person to fly into space twice.
1964 launches
Vladimir Komarov  Konstantin Feoktistov Boris Yegorov	12 October 1964 Voskhod 1		13 October 1964 Voskhod 1		First multiple person spaceflight. Biomedical research.
1965 launches
Aleksei Leonov Pavel Belyayev	18 March 1965 Voskhod 2		19 March 1965 Voskhod 2		First EVA.
Virgil "Gus" Grissom John W. Young	23 March 1965 Gemini 3				First to perform orbital maneuvers.
James McDivitt Edward White	3 June 1965 Gemini 4		7 June 1965 Gemini 4		First American EVA.
Gordon Cooper Charles Conrad	21 August 1965 Gemini 5		29 August 1965 Gemini 5		First one week spaceflight.
Frank Borman James Lovell	4 December 1965 Gemini 7		18 December 1965 Gemini 7		First two week spaceflight. First space rendezvous (with Gemini 6A).
Walter Schirra Thomas Stafford	15 December 1965 Gemini 6A		16 December 1965 Gemini 6A		First space rendezvous (with Gemini 7).
1966 launches
Neil Armstrong David Scott	16 March 1966 Gemini 8		17 March 1966 Gemini 8		First docking in space (with Agena Target Vehicle).
Thomas Stafford Eugene Cernan	3 June 1966 Gemini 9A		6 June 1966 Gemini 9A		First backup crew to fly space mission.
John W. Young Michael Collins	18 July 1966 Gemini 10		21 July 1966 Gemini 10		First rendezvous with two different objects.
Pete Conrad Richard Gordon	12 September 1966 Gemini 11		15 September 1966 Gemini 11		Held altitude record prior to lunar missions (1374 km).
Jim Lovell Buzz Aldrin	11 November 1966 Gemini 12		15 November 1966 Gemini 12		First manual rendezvous. Miscellaneous scientific experiments.
1967 launches
Vladimir Komarov	23 April 1967 Soyuz 1		24 April 1967 Soyuz 1		Crashed on re-entry; first fatality during spaceflight.
1968 launches
Wally Schirra Donn Eisele Walter Cunningham	11 October 1968 Apollo 7		22 October 1968 Apollo 7		First three person U.S. crew. Launched over 20 months after Apollo 1 fatalities.
Georgi Beregovoi	26 October 1968 Soyuz 3		30 October 1968 Soyuz 3		Failed to dock with unmanned Soyuz 2.
Frank Borman Jim Lovell William A. Anders	21 December 1968 Apollo 8		27 December 1968 Apollo 8		First manned lunar orbit.
1969 launches
Vladimir Shatalov	14 January 1969 Soyuz 4		17 January 1969 Soyuz 4		First crew transfer between space vehicles. First docking of two-man spacecraft.
Aleksei Yeliseyev Yevgeny Khrunov	15 January 1969 Soyuz 5
Boris Volynov			18 January 1969 Soyuz 5
James McDivitt David Scott Rusty Schweickart	3 March 1969 Apollo 9		13 March 1969 Apollo 9		Tested Lunar Module in low Earth orbit.
Tom Stafford John W. Young Gene Cernan	18 May 1969 Apollo 10		26 May 1969 Apollo 10		Tested Lunar Module in low lunar orbit.
Neil Armstrong Michael Collins Buzz Aldrin	16 July 1969 Apollo 11		24 July 1969 Apollo 11		First lunar landing.
Georgi Shonin Valeri Kubasov	11 October 1969 Soyuz 6		16 October 1969 Soyuz 6		First three craft spaceflight
Anatoli Filipchenko Vladislav Volkov Viktor Gorbatko	12 October 1969 Soyuz 7		17 October 1969 Soyuz 7
Vladimir Shatalov Aleksei Yeliseyev	13 October 1969 Soyuz 8		18 October 1969 Soyuz 8
Pete Conrad Dick Gordon Alan Bean	14 November 1969 Apollo 12		24 November 1969 Apollo 12		Second lunar landing; precision landing near Surveyor 3.
Continued at List of human spaceflights, 1970s