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{{Infobox Year in spaceflight
|year = 1966
|image = Gemini 8 docking.jpg
|caption = [[Gemini 8]] about to dock with its [[Agena target vehicle]], the first time two spacecraft dock in orbit.
|first = 7 January
|last = 29 December
|total = 131
|success = 111
|failed = 13
|partial = 7
|catalogued = 118
|maidens = <!--TBD-->
|retired = <!--TBD-->
|orbital = 5
|totalcrew = 10
|firstsat = <!--TBD-->
|firsttrav = <!--TBD-->
}}
{{Infobox spaceflight
| programme          = [[Timeline of spaceflight]]
| previous_mission   = [[1965 in spaceflight|1965]]
| next_mission       = [[1967 in spaceflight|1967]]
}}
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The year '''1966''' saw the peak and the end of the [[Project Gemini|Gemini program]]. The program proved that [[Space rendezvous|docking]] in space and human [[Extravehicular activity|EVA's]] could be done safely. It saw the first launch of the [[Saturn IB|Saturn IB rocket]], an important step in the Apollo program, and the launch of [[Luna 9]], the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on a celestial object (the Moon).

==Orbital launches==
{{TLS-M|1966}}
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|colspan=8|

===January===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 7 January|time = 04:48:23
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Thor-Burner|Thor-Burner 1]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 10|LC-75-2-6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}[[United States Air Force|USAF]]
|remarks = Second stage failed to ignite
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 2394]] ([[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP 4A-F5]])
|user = USAF
|orbit= Planned: [[Low Earth orbit|Low Earth]]
|function = Meteorology
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 7 January
}}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 7 January|time = 08:24
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Vostok-2 (rocket)|Vostok-2]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = Third stage failed to put spacecraft in correct orbit
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 104]] ([[Zenit (satellite)|Zenit-2]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Partial Failure
|d-date = 15 January
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 19 January|time = 20:10
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas-Agena|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|PALC-2-4]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}[[United States Air Force|USAF]]
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 24]] (KH-7 Gambit)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = ???
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 3179]] ([[RM-81 Agena|Agena Pickaback]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Technology
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 23 January 1966
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 7253]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 25 January 1966
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 22 January|time = 08:38
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}Vostok-2
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 105]] ([[Zenit (satellite)|Zenit-2]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 30 January
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 25 January|time = 12:28
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos-2I]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kapustin Yar]] LC-86/1
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 106]] ([[Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik|DS-P1-I]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Radar calibration
|outcome = Successful
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 28 January|time = 17:06:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Scout (rocket)|Scout-A]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|PALC-D]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 1593]] ([[Transit (satellite)|Transit-O 7]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Navigation
|outcome = Successful
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 31 January|time = 11:41:37
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Molniya-M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = First spacecraft to soft land on the surface of the Moon and of any planetary object.
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Luna 9]]
|user = 
|orbit= Lunar transfer
|function = Lunar lander
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 3 February <br> 18:45
 }}
}}
|colspan=8|

===February===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 2 February|time = 21:32:13
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Thor-Agena|Thor-SLV2A Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3|PALC-1-1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 7291]] ([[KH-4|KH-4A Corona 1029]])
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 27 February
}}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 3 February|time = 07:41:23
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Delta C]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17A]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[ESSA-1]] ([[Television Infrared Observation Satellite#TIROS Operational System|Tiros]])
|user = [[Environmental Science Services Administration|ESSA]]
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Meteorology
|outcome = Successful
}}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 5 February|time = 12:19:49
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[R-36 (missile)#R-36ORB|R-36O]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}Baikonur [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 67|Site 67/21]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}RVSN
|remarks = Maiden flight of R-36O, apogee: {{convert|200|km}}
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[OGCh 02L|OGCh #02L]]
  |user = RVSN
  |orbit = Suborbital
  |function = Missile test
  |d-date = 5 February
  |outcome = Successful
  }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 9 February|time = 19:45:01
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Thor-SLV2A Agena-D
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2|LC-75-1-2]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 1439]] ("Heavy Ferret")
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = ELINT
|outcome = Successful
}}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 10 February|time = 08:52
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}Vostok-2
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 107]] ([[Zenit (satellite)|Zenit-2]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 18 February
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 11 February|time = 18:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos (rocket)|Kosmos]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}Kapustin Yar LC-86/1
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 108]] ([[Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik|DS-U1-G]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Atmospheric research
|outcome = Successful
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=4
|date = 15 February|time = 20:32
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas-Agena|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|PALC-2-4]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 25]] (KH-7 Gambit)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = ???
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 1184]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 22 February 1966
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 3011]] (Bluebell 2 cylinder)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Radar calibration
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 17 February 1966
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 3031]] (Bluebell 2 sphere)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Radar calibration
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 22 February 1966
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 17 February |time = 08:33:36
|rocket = {{flagicon|FRA}}[[Diamant|Diamant A]]
|site = {{flagicon|ALG}}Hammaguira Brigitte
|LSP = {{flagicon|FRA}}[[French Army|Armée de Terre]]
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|FRA}}[[:fr:Dipason (satellite)|Dipason]] (D-1A)
  |user = Armée de Terre
  |orbit = Low Earth
  |function = [[Geodetic science]]
  |outcome = Successful
  }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 19 February|time = 08:52
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 109]] ([[Zenit (satellite)|Zenit-4 #14L]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 27 February
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 21 February|time = 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}Kosmos (63S1)
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}Kapustin Yar LC-86/1
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = First stage failure at T+83 seconds
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik|DS-K-40 No.2]]
|user = 
|orbit= Planned: Low Earth
|function = ELINT
|outcome = Failure
|d-date = 21 February
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 22 February|time = 20:09:36
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}Voskhod
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 110]] ([[Voskhod (spacecraft)|Voskhod]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Uncrewed spacecraft
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 16 March
 }}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 26 February|time = 16:12:01
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Saturn IB]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34|LC-34]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}NASA
|remarks = First flight of the [[Apollo Spacecraft]] and [[launch vehicle]]
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Apollo Spacecraft|Apollo]] [[AS-201]]
|user = [[NASA]]
|orbit= Sub-orbital
|function = Test spacecraft
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 26 February <br>16:49:21
}}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 28 February|time = 13:58:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Delta E]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral LC-17B
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[ESSA-2]] ([[Television Infrared Observation Satellite#TIROS Operational System|Tiros]])
|user = [[Environmental Science Services Administration|ESSA]]
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Meteorology
|outcome = Successful
}}
}}
|colspan=8|

===March===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 1 March|time = 11:03:49
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Molniya-M|Molniya 8K78M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 111]] ([[E-6S|Luna E-6S series]])
|user = 
|orbit= Intended: Lunar transfer
|function = Lunar orbiter
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 1 March
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 9 March|time = 22:02:03
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Thor-Agena|Thor-SLV2A Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3|PALC-1-1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 3488]] (KH-4A Corona 1030)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 29 March
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 16 March |time = 15:00:03
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Agena target vehicle|GATV 5003]]
|user = US Air Force
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Docking target
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 15 September 1967
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 16 March |time = 16:41:02
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Titan II GLV
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19|LC-19]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks = First docking with the [[Agena target vehicle]]
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Gemini 8|Gemini VIII]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Technology/Biological/Target
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 17 March |d-time = 03:22:28
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 17 March|time = 10:28:42
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}Vostok-2
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 41|Plesetsk LC-41/1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 112]] ([[Zenit (satellite)|Zenit-2]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 25 March 1966|d-time = 05:31
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 18 March|time = 20:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas-Agena|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|PALC-2-4]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 26]] (KH-7 Gambit)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = ???
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 0879]]
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 23 March 1966
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 0974]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 24 March 1966
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 21 March|time = 09:40
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 113]] (Zenit-4 #17L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 29 March
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 24 March|time = 14:39
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Proton (rocket family)|UR-500]] (Proton)
|site = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}Baikonur Site 81/23
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}
|remarks = 2nd stage engine failure T+122 seconds. Suspected collision with the first stage following separation. 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[List of Proton launches (1965–69)|Proton N-4 #3]] (N-4 #3)
|user = 
|orbit = Intended: Low Earth
|function = Physics
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 24 March
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 26 March|time = 03:31:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Scout (rocket)|Scout-A]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5 (PALC-D)
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} Transit-O 8
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Navigation
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 27 March|time = 07:20
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Molniya-M|Molniya 8K78M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}
|remarks = Booster failure
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Molniya (satellite)|Molniya-1 #5]]
|user =
|orbit = Intended: [[Molniya orbit|Molniya]]
|function = Communications technology
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 27 March
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=2|
|date = 30 March |time = 09:20:12
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}SM-65D Atlas D
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg ABRES-B-3
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} [[OV1-4]]
|user = US Air Force
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = REV test
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} [[OV1-5]]
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = REV test
|outcome = Successful
}} 
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 31 March|time = 05:41:04
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Thor-Burner|Thor-Burner 1]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 10|LC-75-2-6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}[[United States Air Force|USAF]]
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 0340]] ([[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP-Block-4A F6]])
|user = USAF
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Meteorology
|outcome = Successful
|d-date =
|-
}}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 31 March|time = 10:46:59
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Molniya-M|Molniya 8K78M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = First Soviet lunar orbiter, first discoverer of lunar [[mass concentration (astronomy)|mascons]]; Last contact: 30 May 1966
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Luna 10]]
|user = 
|orbit= Lunar transfer
|function = Lunar orbiter
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 30 May (last contact)
}}
}}
|colspan=8|

===April===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 6 April|time = 11:40
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 41|Plesetsk LC-41/1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 114]] (Zenit-4 #19L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 14 April<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/TKsigs/TKsigs.htm|title=Recovery Beacon Signals from Kosmos Satellites|access-date=14 April 2019}}</ref>
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 7 April|time = 22:02:55
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Thor SLV-2A Agena D 
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg PALC1-1
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 1612]] (KH-4 Corona 1031)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 26 April 1966
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 1031-1 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = ???
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = ???
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 1031-2
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = ???
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 8 April |time = 01:00:02
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas-Centaur|Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Canaveral [[Spaceport Florida Launch Complex 36|LC-36B]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}NASA
|remarks =  Launch vehicle development flight. It carried a mass model of the Surveyor spacecraft. The second Centaur engine firing was unsuccessful.
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas Centaur 8]] [[Surveyor SM-2]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = Highly elliptical
|function = Technology
|outcome = Failure<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/167422main_majorlaunch.pdf|title=Major NASA Launches|access-date=14 April 2019}}</ref>
|d-date = 14 April
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 8 April |time = 19:35:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12|LC-12]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Orbiting Astronomical Observatory|OAO 1]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = 
|outcome = Spacecraft failure
|d-date = 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=2
|date = 19 April|time = 19:15
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas-Agena|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|PALC-2-4]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 27]] (KH-7 Gambit SV 977)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 26 April 1966
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 0910]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 22 April 1966
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 20 April|time = 10:40
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}Vostok-2
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}Baikonur LC-31
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 115]] (Zenit-2 No. 35L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 28 April 1966
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 22 April |time = 09:45
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Scout (rocket)|Scout-B]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg PALC-D
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OV3-1]]
|user = USAF
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Radiation belt particle and fields experiments
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}} 
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 25 April|time = 07:10
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Molniya-M|Molniya 8K78M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}Baikonur LC-31
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}
|remarks = Third successful Molniya; also transmitted cloud cover images
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Molniya (satellite)|Molniya-1 #6]]
|user =
|orbit = [[Molniya orbit|Molniya]]
|function = Communications technology
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 11 June 1973
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 26 April|time = 10:04
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos-2I]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kapustin Yar]] LC-86/1
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 116]] ([[Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik|DS-P1-Yu No. 6]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Radar calibration
|outcome = Successful
}}
}}
|colspan=8|


===May===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 3 May|time = 19:25:25
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Thor SLV-2A Agena D
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg 75-3-5
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 1508]] ([[KH-4A Corona 1032]])
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Failure
|d-date = 3 May
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 1032-1  
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Failure
|d-date = 3 May
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 1032-2  
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Failure
|d-date = 3 May
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 6 May|time = 10:58
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}Vostok-2
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}Baikonur LC-31
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 117]] (Zenit-2 No. 39L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 14 May 1966
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 11 May |time = 14:10
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Vostok-2M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Kosmos 118]] (Meteor #4L)
  |user = 
  |orbit = Low Earth
  |function = Weather
  |d-date = 23 November 1988
  |outcome = Successful
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 14 May|time = 19:02
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas-Agena|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|PALC-2-4]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 28]] (KH-7 Gambit SV 978)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 27 October 1970
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 1950]]
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 17 May 1966
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 6785]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 21 May 1966
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 15 May |time = 07:55:34
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Thor-Agena|Thor SLV-2 Agena-B]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg AFB Launch Complex 75|Vandenberg LC-75-1-1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Nimbus 2]] (Nimbus C)
  |user = NASA
  |orbit = Low Earth
  |function = Weather<br/>Technology
  |outcome = Successful
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 17 May|time = 11:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 41|Plesetsk LC-41/1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Zenit (satellite)|Unnamed Kosmos]] (Zenit-4 #18L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Failure
|d-date = 17 May
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 17 May |time = 15:15:03
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Agena target vehicle|GATV 5004]]
|user = US Air Force
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Docking target
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 17 May
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 19 May|time = 02:27:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Scout (rocket)|Scout-A]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5 (PALC-D)
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}Transit-O 9
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Navigation
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 19 May|time = 19:30
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[R-36 (missile)#R-36ORB|R-36O]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}Baikonur [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 67|Site 67/22]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}RVSN
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[OGCh 04L|OGCh #04L]]
  |user = RVSN
  |orbit = Suborbital
  |function = Missile test
  |d-date = 19 May
  |outcome = Successful
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 24 May|time = 02:00:33
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Thor SLV-2A Agena D
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3 (PALC-1-1)
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} OPS 1778 [[KH-4A|KH-4A Corona 1033]]
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 9 June 1966
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 1033-1  
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = ???
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 1033-2  
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = ???
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 24 May|time = 05:31?
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}Kosmos-2I
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}Kapustin Yar LC-86/1
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 119]] ([[Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik|DS-U2-I No. 1]])
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Ionospheric research
|outcome = Successful
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 25 May|time = 14:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Delta C|Thor Delta C1]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17|LC-17B]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Explorer 32]] (AE-B)
  |user = NASA
  |orbit = Low Earth
  |function = Atmospheric
  |outcome = Successful
  |d-date = 22 February 1985
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 30 May |time = 14:41:01
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D |flight=AC-10
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Canaveral [[Spaceport Florida Launch Complex 36|LC-36A]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}NASA
|remarks =  First American lunar soft-lander
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Surveyor 1]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = [[Translunar injection]]
|function = Lunar lander
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 2 June 1966
}}
}}
|-
|colspan=8|

===June===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 1 June |time = 15:00:02
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = Shroud failed to come off target adapter precluding docking
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Agena target vehicle|ATDA No. 02186]]
|user = US Air Force
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Docking target
|outcome = Spacecraft failure
|d-date = 11 June
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 3 June |time = 13:39:33
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Titan II GLV
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19|LC-19]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks = Failed attempt to dock with [[Augmented Target Docking Adapter|ATDA]]; two hour [[Extravehicular activity|EVA]] by [[Eugene Cernan]]
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Gemini 9A|Gemini IX-A]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Technology/Biological/Target
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 6 June |d-time = 02:00:23
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 3 June|time = 19:25
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|PALC-2-4]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 29]] (KH-7 Gambit SV 979)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 6 June 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|OPS 1577]]
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 9 June
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|OPS 1856]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 9 June
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 7 June |time = 02:48
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-B]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 112|LC-12]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks = Routine spacecraft operation was discontinued on 1 December 1969, after which only data from Heppner's experiment (E-11) was acquired. All spacecraft support terminated on 29 February 1972.
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Orbiting Geophysical Observatory|OGO-3]] (OGO-B)
  |user = NASA
  |orbit = Low Earth
  |function = Ionospheric<br/>Magnetospheric
  |outcome = Successful
  |d-date = 14 September 1981
  }} 
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 8 June|time = 11:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}Baikonur LC-31
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 120]] (Zenit-2 No. 41L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 16 June
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 9 June|time = 20:15
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2|PALC-1-2]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Missile Defense Alarm System|Midas 10]] (Midas RTS-I F1)
|user = USAF
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Early Warning
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 3 December 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}ERS 16 (ORS 2)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Technology (performed metal-to-metal bonding experiments)
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 12 March 1967
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[SECOR|SECOR 6]] (Secor Type II S/N 7, EGRS VI)                        
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geodetic
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 6 July 1967
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 10 June |time = 04:15
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Scout (rocket)|Scout-B]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Wallops Flight Facility Launch Area 3|Wallops Flight Facility Launch Area 3A]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Orbiting Vehicle|OV3-4]] (Personnel Hazards Associated with Space Radiation (PHASR)), OPS-1427<ref name=designationsystems>{{cite web|url=http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app3/ov.html|title=OV}}</ref>
|user = USAF
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Tissue equivalent radiation chamber, linear energy transfer spectrometer, electron and proton spectrometers, a solid state charged particle spectrometer and a tri-axial magnetometer. 
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}} 
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=8
|date = 16 June|time = 14:01
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Titan IIIC]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41|LC-41]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = GGTS experiment partially failed because magnetic field in one of the dampers was compromised
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Gravity Gradient Technology Satellite|GGTS]]
|user = USAF
|orbit= Geosynchronous
|function = Gravity Gradient stabilization test
|outcome = Partial spacecraft failure<ref name=gunter>{{cite web|url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ggts-1.htm|title=GGTS 1,2|publisher=Gunter's Space Report|access-date=22 Nov 2019}}</ref>
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 1
|user = 
|orbit= Geosynchronous
|function = Military communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 2
|user = 
|orbit= Geosynchronous
|function = Military communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 3
|user = 
|orbit= Geosynchronous
|function = Military communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 4
|user = 
|orbit= Geosynchronous
|function = Military communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 5
|user = 
|orbit= Geosynchronous
|function = Military communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 6
|user = 
|orbit= Geosynchronous
|function = Military communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 7
|user = 
|orbit= Geosynchronous
|function = Military communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 17 Jun|time = 11:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 41|Plesetsk LC-41/1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 121]] (Zenit-4 #20L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 25 Jun
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 21 Jun|time = 21:23:30
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Thor SLV-2A Agena D
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg 75-3-5
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 1599]] ([[KH-4A Corona 1034]])
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 14 July
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 1034-1  
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = Before 14 July
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 1034-2  
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = Before 14 July
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 24 Jun|time = 21:31:30
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Thor-SLV2A Agena-D
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 1|LC-75-1-1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[PAGEOS]]
|user = NASA
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geodetic
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 1975 - 2016 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 25 Jun |time = 10:30
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Vostok-2M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Kosmos 122]] (Meteor #5L)
  |user = 
  |orbit = Low Earth
  |function = Weather
  |d-date = 14 November 1989
  |outcome = Successful
  }}
}}
|-
|colspan=8|

===July===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 1 Jul|time = 16:02:25
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Delta E|Thor Delta E1]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17|LC-17A]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Explorer 33]] (AIMP D)
  |user = NASA
  |orbit = High Earth
  |function = [[Magnetospheric]] research
  |outcome = Successful
  |d-date = 
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 5 July|time = 16:12:01
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Saturn IB]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 37|LC-37B]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}NASA
|remarks = The spacecraft inadvertently destroyed after four orbits
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Apollo Spacecraft|Apollo]] [[AS-203]]
|user = [[NASA]]
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = [[S-IVB]] test
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 5 July
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 6 July|time = 12:57
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Proton (rocket family)|UR-500]] (Proton)
|site = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}Baikonur Site 81/23
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Proton (satellite program)|Proton 3]] (N-4 #4)
|user = 
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Cosmic rays and particles research
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 16 September
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 8 July |time = 05:31
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Kosmos (rocket)|Kosmos]] (63S1)
|site = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}Kapustin Yar Site 86/1
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Kosmos 123]] (DS-P1-Yu #5L)
  |user = 
  |orbit = Low Earth
  |function = Radar calibration
  |outcome = Successful
  |d-date = 
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=2|
|date = 12 July|time = 17:55
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|SLC 4E]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 30]] (KH-7 Gambit SV 980)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 20 Jul 1966 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|OPS 1850]] SRV Mission 4030
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = July
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=2|
|date = 14 July|time = 02:10:02
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[SM-65D Atlas]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Launch Complex 576|Vandenberg ABRES-B-3]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OV1-8]] (PasComSat)
|user = USAF
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 4 Jan 1978 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OV1-7]]
|user = USAF
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = X-Ray Astronomy/Ionosphere
|outcome = Failed to orbit
|d-date = 14 July
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 14 July|time = 10:25
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|Baikonur LC-31]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 124]] (Zenit-2 No. 42L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 22 July
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 18 July |time = 20:39:46
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas-Agena]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Agena target vehicle|TDA-1A]]
|user = US Air Force
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Docking target
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 29 Dec
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 18 July |time = 22:20:27
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Titan II GLV]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19|LC-19]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks = Second successful docking with [[Agena target vehicle]]; First [[Extravehicular activity|EVA]] to another spacecraft, by [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]]
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Gemini 10|Gemini X]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Technology/Biological/Target
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 21 July |d-time = 21:07:05
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 20 July |time = 08:58
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Soyuz/Vostok]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|Baikonur LC-31]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Kosmos 125]] ([[US-A]]) No. 111
  |user = 
  |orbit = Low Earth
  |function = [[ELINT]]
  |outcome = Successful
  |d-date = 2 Aug 1966
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 28 Jul|time = 10:50
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|Baikonur LC-31]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 126]] (Zenit-4 #21L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 2 Aug
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=2|
|date = 29 July|time = 18:30:20
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Titan IIIB]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4W]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} [[KH-8 Gambit 3|KH-8 Gambit #1]] (OPS 3014)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 6 Aug 1966 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} SRV Mission 4301-1
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = before 6 Aug 1966
  }}
}}
|-
|colspan=8|

===August===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 4 Aug |time = 10:45:01
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Scout (rocket)|Scout-B]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 5]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OV3-3]]
|user = USAF
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Radiation belt particle and fields experiments
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}} 
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 8 Aug|time = 11:29
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|Baikonur LC-31]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 127]] (Zenit-4 #22L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 16 Aug
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 9 Aug|time = 20:46:03  
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Thorad-Agena|Thorad SLV-2G Agena D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 1|Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 1W]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 1545]] CORONA J-32
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 11 Sep
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 715 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = Before 11 Sep
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 716  
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = Before 11 Sep
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 10 Aug|time = 19:26:00 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas-Agena|Atlas SLV-3 Agena D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 13]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = First US spacecraft to orbit Moon. First spacecraft to photograph Earth from the Moon.
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Lunar Orbiter 1]]
|user = 
|orbit= Lunar
|function = Mapping
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 29 Oct 13:29 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=4|
|date = 16 Aug|time = 18:30
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4E]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 31]] (OPS 1832)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 24 Aug 1966 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV Mission 4031
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = before 24 Aug 1966 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SAMPAN 1
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = ELINT Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 5 Mar 1970
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SOUSEA 1 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = ELINT Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 5 Mar 1970
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 17 August |time = 15:20:17
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Delta (rocket family)#Delta E|Delta E1]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17|Cape Canaveral LC-17A]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}NASA
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Pioneer 7]] (Pioneer B)
  |user = NASA
  |orbit = Heliocentric
  |function = Scientific
  |outcome = Successful
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 18 Aug|time = 02:25:02 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Scout (rocket)|Scout-A]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5]] (PALC-D)
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}Transit-O 10
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Navigation
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 19 Aug|time = 1925 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3|Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3E]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Missile Defense Alarm System|Midas 11]] (Midas RTS-I F2)
|user = USAF
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Early Warning
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}ERS 15 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Technology (performed metal-to-metal bonding experiments)
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 12 March 1967
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[SECOR|SECOR 7]] (Secor Type II S/N 8, EGRS VII)                        
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geodetic
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 24 Aug|time = 08:03:21 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Molniya-M|Molniya 8K78M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = TV camera failed to return usable images; Last contact: 1 October 1966
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Luna 11]]
|user = 
|orbit= Lunar transfer
|function = Lunar orbiter
|outcome = Partial spacecraft failure
|d-date = 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 25 Aug|time = 17:15:32 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Saturn IB]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34|LC-34]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}NASA
|remarks = Second flight of the [[Apollo Spacecraft]] and [[launch vehicle]]; resulted in man-rating of Block 1 Apollo and Saturn 1B rocket
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Apollo Spacecraft|Apollo]] [[AS-202]]
|user = [[NASA]]
|orbit= Sub-orbital
|function = Test spacecraft
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 25 Aug 
|d-time = 18:48:34
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=8
|date = 26 Aug|time = 13:59:56
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Titan IIIC]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41|LC-41]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geosynchronous Communications
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 26 Aug
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geosynchronous Communications
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 26 Aug
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geosynchronous Communications
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 26 Aug
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geosynchronous Communications
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 26 Aug
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geosynchronous Communications
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 26 Aug
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geosynchronous Communications
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 26 Aug
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geosynchronous Communications
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 26 Aug
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program|IDCSP]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geosynchronous Communications
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 26 Aug
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 27 Aug|time = 09:50  
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 128]] (Zenit-4 #23L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 4 Sep
}}
}}
|-
|colspan=8|

===September===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 12 Sep |time = 13:05:02
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Agena target vehicle|GATV-5006]]
|user = US Air Force
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Docking target
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 30 Dec
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 12 Sep |time = 14:42:27  
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Titan II GLV]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19|LC-19]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks =  First-ever direct-ascent (first orbit) rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, highest apogee orbit for Earth-orbiting crewed mission to date.
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Gemini 11|Gemini XI]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Technology/Biological/Target
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 15 Sep |d-time = 13:59:35
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 16 Sep|time = 09:30  
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Thor-Burner|Thor-Burner 2]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 10|LC-75-2-6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}[[United States Air Force|USAF]]
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP-Block-4A 7]] ([[OPS 6026]])
|user = USAF
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Meteorology
|outcome = Successful
|d-date =
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 16 Sep|time = 09:30 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Zenit (satellite)#Zenit 4|Unnamed Zenit-4]] (Zenit-4 #40L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Failure
|d-date = 16 Sep
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=4|
|date = 16 Sep|time = 17:59
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4E]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 32]] (OPS 1686)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 23 Sep 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV Mission 4032
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = before 23 Sep 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}FANION 2
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = ELINT Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 9 May 1968
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}TRIPOS 2
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = ELINT Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 9 May 1968
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 17 Sep|time = 22:35
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[R-36 (missile)#R-36ORB|R-36O]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] Site 162/36
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}RVSN
|remarks = First attempted orbital Fractional Orbital Bombardment System test.
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[OGCh 05L|OGCh #05L]]
  |user = RVSN
  |orbit = LEO
  |function = Missile test
  |d-date = 11 Nov
  |outcome = Partial launch failure
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 20 Sep |time = 12:32:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Canaveral [[Spaceport Florida Launch Complex 36|LC-36A]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}NASA
|remarks =  Mid-course correction failure resulted in the spacecraft losing control. Contact was lost with the spacecraft at 9:35 UTC, 22 September. 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Surveyor 2]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = Highly elliptical
|function = Lunar Lander
|outcome = Spacecraft failure
|d-date = 23 Sep
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 20 Sep|time = 21:14:05 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Thor SLV-2A Agena D
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3#SLC-3W|Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3W]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Corona (satellite)|KH-4A Corona 1035]] (OPS 1703)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 12 Oct
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 1035-1  
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = Before 12 Oct
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 1035-2  
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = Before 12 Oct
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 26 Sep |time = 02:58
|rocket = {{flagicon|JPN}}[[Lambda 4S]]
|site = {{flagicon|JPN}}[[Uchinoura Space Center|Kagoshima Pad L]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|JPN}}JAXA
|remarks =  
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|JPN}}L-4S-1
|user = JAXA
|orbit = 
|function = 
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 26 Sep
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=2|
|date = 28 Sep|time = 19:07
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Titan IIIB]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4W]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} [[KH-8 Gambit 3|KH-8 Gambit #2]] (OPS 4096)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 7 Oct
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} SRV Mission 4302-1
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = before 7 Oct
  }}
}}
|-
|colspan=8|

===October===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 2 October|time = 10:39:03
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Delta E]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2|Vandenberg SLC 2E]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[ESSA-3]] ([[Television Infrared Observation Satellite#TIROS Operational System|Tiros]])
|user = [[Environmental Science Services Administration|ESSA]]
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Meteorology
|outcome = Successful
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=2
|date = 5 Oct|time = 22:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg]] [[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3|Vandenberg SLC 3E]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Missile Defense Alarm System|Midas 12]] (Midas RTS-I F3)
|user = USAF
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Early Warning
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}EGRS VIII ([[SECOR]] Type II S/N 9 )
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geodetic
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3|
|date = 12 Oct|time = 19:15
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4E]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 33]] (OPS 2055)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 20 Oct
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV Mission 4033
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = before 20 Oct
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}Space Ground Link System (SLGS) 1 (OPS 5345)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Technology
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 21 Oct
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 14 Oct|time = 12:13:08
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Vostok-2 (rocket)|Vostok-2]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 41|Plesetsk LC-41/1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 129]] (Zenit-2 No. 33L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 21 Oct
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 20 Oct|time = 07:50
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Molniya-M|Molniya 8K78M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Gagarin's Start|Baikonur Site 1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Molniya (satellite)|Molniya-1 #7]]
|user =
|orbit = [[Molniya orbit|Molniya]]
|function = Communications technology
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 11 Sep 1968
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 20 Oct|time = 08:46
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 130]] (Zenit-4 #24L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 28 Oct
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 22 Oct|time = 08:42:26
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Molniya-M|Molniya 8K78M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]] [[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = Took high-resolution photos of the Moon's surface from lunar orbit. Last contact: 19 Jan 1967
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Luna 12]]
|user = 
|orbit= Lunar transfer
|function = Lunar orbiter
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 26 Oct |time = 11:12:02
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas-Centaur|Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Canaveral [[Spaceport Florida Launch Complex 36|LC-36B]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}NASA
|remarks =  Launch vehicle development flight. It carried a mass model of the Surveyor spacecraft.
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas Centaur 9]] [[Surveyor SM-3]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = Highly elliptical
|function = Technology
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 26 Oct |time = 23:05:00 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Delta E]]1
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17|Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17B]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}NASA
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|UN}}[[Intelsat II|Intelsat II F-1]] (Blue Bird)
  |user = [[Intelsat]]
  |orbit = Geosynchronous
  |function = Communications
  |outcome = Successful
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 28 Oct |time = 11:56:02
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Scout (rocket)|Scout-B]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 5]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OV3-2]]
|user = USAF
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Radiation belt particle and fields experiments
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 29 Sep 1971
}} 
}}
|-
|colspan=8|

===November===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 2 Nov|time = 00:45:03
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[R-36 (missile)#R-36ORB|R-36O]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] Site 162/36
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}RVSN
|remarks = Second attempted orbital Fractional Orbital Bombardment System test.
|payload = {{TLS-PL
  |name = {{flagicon|USSR|1955}}[[OGCh 06L|OGCh #06L]]
  |user = RVSN
  |orbit = LEO
  |function = Missile test
  |d-date = 29 Nov
  |outcome = Spacecraft failure
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3|
|date = 2 Nov|time = 20:24
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4E]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 34]] (OPS 2070)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 10 Nov
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV Mission 4034
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = before 10 Nov
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}Space Ground Link System (SLGS) 2 (OPS 5424)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Technology
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 16 Nov
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=5
|date = 3 Nov|time = 13:50:42  
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Titan IIIC]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 0855|Manned Orbiting Laboratory mockup]]
|user = USAF
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = MOL mockup
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 9 Jan 1967
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OV4-1|OV4-1R]]
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 5 Jan 1967
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OV4-1|OV4-1T]]
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 11 Jan 1967
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OV1-6|OV1-6S]] 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical target deployment
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 31 Dec
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Gemini SC-2|Gemini B]]
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Geosynchronous Communications
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 3 Nov (suborbital test)
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 6 Nov|time = 23:21:00 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas-Agena|Atlas SLV-3 Agena D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 13]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Lunar Orbiter 2]]
|user = 
|orbit= Lunar
|function = Mapping
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 11 Oct 67 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3
|date = 8 Nov|time = 19:53:02  
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Thorad-Agena|Thorad SLV-2G Agena D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 1|Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 1W]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[OPS 1866]] CORONA J-38
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 29 Nov
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 727 
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = Before 29 Nov
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV 728  
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = Before 29 Nov
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 11 Nov |time = 19:07:59
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Agena target vehicle|GATV-5007]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Docking target
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 23 Dec
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 11 Nov |time = 20:46:33  
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Titan II GLV]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19|LC-19]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks =  Final Gemini flight
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Gemini 12|Gemini XII]]
|user = NASA
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Technology/Biological/Target
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 15 Nov |d-time = 19:21:04
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 12 Nov|time = 09:50
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod 11A57]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 41|Plesetsk LC-41/1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 131]] (Zenit-4 #25L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 20 Nov
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 16 Nov|time = 13:00 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos-3]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 41|Plesetsk LC-41/5]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Strela-2]] #2L
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Communications
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 16 Nov
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 19 Nov|time = 08:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Vostok-2 (rocket)|Vostok-2]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|Baikonur LC-31]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 132]] (Zenit-4 #46L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 27 Nov
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 28 Nov|time = 11:00:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Soyuz (rocket)]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|Baikonur LC-31]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = First test of Soyuz 7K-OK crewed spacecraft
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 133]] ([[Soyuz 7K-OK]] No. 2)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Crewed spacecraft
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 30 Nov 10:21
}}
}}
|-
|colspan=8|

===December===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 3 Dec|time = 08:15
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Vostok-2 (rocket)|Vostok-2]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|Baikonur LC-31]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 134]] (Zenit-4 #26L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 11 Dec
}}
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=3|
|date = 5 Dec|time = 21:09
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4E]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[KH-7 Gambit|KH-7 35]] (OPS 1890)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 14 Dec
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}SRV Mission 4035
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = before 14 Dec
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}Agena Engine Diagnostic 1
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Technology
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 8 Dec
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 7 Dec |time = 02:12:01
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3|Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12|LC-12]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = The first experimental equatorial synchronous satellite.
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[ATS-1]] (Applications Technology Satellite)
|user = NASA
|orbit = Geostationary
|function = Communications/weather
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=2|
|date = 11 Dec |time = 21:09:57
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}SM-65D Atlas D
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Vandenberg ABRES-B-3
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}US Air Force
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} [[OV1-9]]
|user = US Air Force
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Radiation studies
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} [[OV1-10]]
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Radiation studies
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 30 Nov 2002
}} 
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 12 December|time = 20:38?
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos-2I]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kapustin Yar]] LC-86/1
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 135]]
|user = 
|orbit= Planned: Low Earth
|function = Micrometeoroid
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 12 April 1967
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 14 Dec|time = 11:00:00
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Soyuz (rocket)]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|Baikonur LC-31]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = Second test of Soyuz 7K-OK crewed spacecraft
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Soyuz 7K-OK No.1]]
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Crewed spacecraft
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 14 Dec
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=2|
|date = 14 Dec|time = 18:14
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Titan IIIB]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4W]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} [[KH-8 Gambit 3|KH-8 Gambit #3]] (OPS 8968)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical Reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 24 Dec
 }}{{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}} SRV Mission 4303
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Film return
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = before 24 Dec
  }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 14 December|time = 19:20:03
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Delta (rocket family)#Delta G|Delta G]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|Cape Canaveral LC-17A]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Biosatellite 1]]
|user = NASA
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Bioscience
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 15 February 1967
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 19 Dec|time = 12:00:01
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Vostok-2 (rocket)|Vostok-2]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 41|Plesetsk LC-41/1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 136]] (Zenit-4 #47L)
|user = 
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = Optical reconnaissance
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 27 Dec
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 20 Dec |time = 02:20
|rocket = {{flagicon|JPN}}[[Lambda 4S]]
|site = {{flagicon|JPN}}[[Uchinoura Space Center|Kagoshima Pad L]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|JPN}}JAXA
|remarks =  
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|JPN}}L-4S-2
|user = JAXA
|orbit = 
|function = 
|outcome = Launch failure
|d-date = 20 Dec
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 21 Dec|time = 10:17:08
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Molniya-M]]
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Gagarin's Start|Baikonur Site 1]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = Last contact: 28 December 1966, 06:13
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Luna 13]]
|user = 
|orbit= Lunar transfer
|function = Lunar lander
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 24 Dec
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 21 Dec|time = 13:12?
|rocket = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos (rocket)|Kosmos]] (63S1)
|site = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kapustin Yar]] LC-86/1
|LSP = {{flagicon|USSR}}
|remarks = Last contact: 12 May 1967
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USSR}}[[Kosmos 137]]
|user = 
|orbit= Planned: Low Earth
|function = Magnetosphere
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 23 Nov 1967
 }}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1|
|date = 21 Dec |time = 22:15:02 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Atlas SLV-3]]
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}Cape Canaveral [[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3#SLC-3E|Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3E]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = First test of PRIME
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}[[SV-5D]] FV-1
|user = US Air Force
|orbit = Low Earth
|function = Lifting body reentry test
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 21 Dec
}}
}}
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date = 29 Dec|time = 12:00:06 
|rocket = {{flagicon|USA}}Thor SLV-2A Agena D
|site = {{flagicon|USA}}[[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2#SLC-2W|Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2W]]
|LSP = {{flagicon|USA}}
|remarks = 
|payload = {{TLS-PL
|name = {{flagicon|USA}}MULTIGROUP 1/SETTER 1A (OPS 1584)
|user = NRO
|orbit= Low Earth
|function = ELINT
|outcome = Successful
|d-date = 5 Apr 1969
 }}
}}
|colspan=8|
|}
{{TLS-M|1966}}

==Suborbital launches==
{{TLS-M|1966}}
{{TLS-H2}}
|colspan=8|
===January-December===
|-
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date =14 July<ref name="T-7">{{Cite web |last=Wade |first=Mark |title=T-7 |url=http://astronautix.com/t/t-7.html |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=astronautix.com}}</ref>
|time =
|rocket ={{flagicon|PRC}}[[T-7 (rocket)|T-7A-S2]]
|flight =
|site ={{flagicon|PRC}}[[Shijiedu]]
|LSP ={{flagicon|PRC}}[[Shanghai Institute of Electromechanical Design|SIED]]
|remarks =Apogee: 100 km
|empty =
|payload = {{TLS-PL 
  |name ={{flagicon|PRC}}Capsule with a [[animals in space|dog]]
  |cubesat =
  |user =
  |orbit =Suborbital
  |function =Biology experiment
  |d-date =14 July
  |d-time =
  |outcome =Successful
  |d-span =
  |o-span =
  }} 
}}
{{TLS-RL|NoPL=1
|date =28 July<ref name="T-7" />
|time =
|rocket ={{flagicon|PRC}}[[T-7 (rocket)|T-7A-S2]]
|flight =
|site ={{flagicon|PRC}}[[Shijiedu]]
|LSP ={{flagicon|PRC}}[[Shanghai Institute of Electromechanical Design|SIED]]
|remarks =Apogee: 100 km
|empty =
|payload = {{TLS-PL 
  |name ={{flagicon|PRC}}Capsule with a [[animals in space|dog]]
  |cubesat =
  |user =
  |orbit =Suborbital
  |function =Biology experiment
  |d-date =28 July
  |d-time =
  |outcome =Successful
  |d-span =
  |o-span =
  }} 
}}
|colspan=8|
|}
{{TLS-M|1966}}

==Gemini and Apollo launches==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Launch Date/Time
! [[Rocket]]
! Launch <br> Site
! Launch Contractor
! Payload
! Operator
! [[Orbit]]
! Mission/<br>Function
! Re-Entry/<br>Destruction
! Outcome
! Remarks
|-
||16 March <br> 15:00 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas D]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Agena Target Vehicle|GATV 5003]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Project Gemini|Gemini]] docking target.
||15 September 1967
||Successful
||Used by [[Gemini 8]] and [[Gemini 10]]
|-
||16 March <br> 16:41 [[GMT]]
||[[Titan II GLV|Titan II]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19|LC-19]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Gemini 8]], 2 [[Astronaut]]s
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Crewed Orbital Flight
||17 March 1966
||Partial Failure
||First docking in space. (with [[Agena Target Vehicle|GATV]]). <br> [[Orbit attitude and maneuvering system|OAMS]] malfunction caused loss of control. Spacecraft became low on fuel after recovering. Terminated early.
|-
||17 May <br> 15:12 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas D]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Agena Target Vehicle|GATV 5004]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Project Gemini|Gemini]] docking target.
||17 May 1966
||'''Failure'''
||Failed to reach orbit. <br> Intended for use by [[Gemini 9A|Gemini 9]]
|-
||1 June <br> 15:00 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas SLV-3]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[ATDA|ATDA 02186]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Project Gemini|Gemini]] docking target.
||11 June 1966
||'''Failure'''
||Fairing failed to separate <br> Intended for use by [[Gemini 9A]]
|-
||3 June <br> 16:41 [[GMT]]
||[[Titan II GLV|Titan II]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19|LC-19]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Gemini 9A]], 2 [[Astronaut]]s
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Crewed Orbital Flight
||6 June 1966
||Partial Failure
||Unable to complete primary objective - Docking with [[ATDA]] - due to ATDA payload fairing malfunction
|-
||5 July <br> 14:53 [[GMT]]
||[[Saturn IB]] (C-1B)
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 37B|LC-37B]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||(none)
||N/A
||N/A
||Test [[launch vehicle]]
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||18 July <br> 20:39 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas D]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Agena Target Vehicle|GATV 5005]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Project Gemini|Gemini]] docking target.
||29 December 1966
||Successful
||Used by [[Gemini 10]]
|-
||18 July <br> 22:20 [[GMT]]
||[[Titan II GLV|Titan II]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19|LC-19]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Gemini 10]], 2 [[Astronaut]]s
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Crewed Orbital Flight
||21 July 1966
||Successful
||
|-
||25 August <br> 17:15 [[GMT]]
||[[Saturn IB]] (C-1B)
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34|LC-34]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Apollo Spacecraft]] ([[AS-202]])
||[[NASA]]
||[[Sub-orbital]]
||Test [[Apollo Spacecraft]] and Launch Vehicle
||25 August 1966 <br> 18:48 [[GMT]]
||Successful
||
|-
||12 September <br> 13:05 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas D]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Agena Target Vehicle|GATV 5006]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Project Gemini|Gemini]] docking target.
||30 December 1966
||Successful
||Used by [[Gemini 11]]
|-
||12 September <br> 14:42 [[GMT]]
||[[Titan II GLV|Titan II]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19|LC-19]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Gemini 11]], 2 [[Astronaut]]s
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Crewed Orbital Flight
||15 September 1966
||Successful
||Altitude record for crewed Earth-Orbit flight
|-
||11 November <br> 20:46 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas D]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14|LC-14]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Agena Target Vehicle|GATV 5001A]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Project Gemini|Gemini]] docking target.
||23 December 1966
||'''Failure'''
||Failed to ignite. <br> Used by [[Gemini 12]]
|-
||11 November <br> 20:46 [[GMT]]
||[[Titan II GLV|Titan II]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19|LC-19]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Gemini 12]], 2 [[Astronaut]]s
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Crewed Orbital Flight
||15 November 1966
||Successful
||Final [[Gemini Program|Gemini]] flight
|-
|}

== Deep Space Rendezvous ==
{| class=wikitable width="100%"
!Date (UTC)
!Spacecraft
!Event
!Remarks
|-
| 3 February || [[Luna 9]] || First [[Moon|lunar]] landing || in ''[[Oceanus Procellarum]]''; first [[soft landing (rocketry)|soft landing]] on a celestial body and first images from lunar surface
|-
| 27 February || [[Venera 2]] || Flyby of [[Venus]] || Communication lost en route
|-
| 1 March || [[Venera 3]] || First Venus impact || Communication lost en route
|-
| 3 April || [[Luna 10]] || [[Selenocentric orbit]] insertion || first orbiter of the Moon
|-
| 2 June || [[Surveyor 1]] || Lunar landing || in ''Oceanus Procellarum''
|-
| 14 August || [[Lunar Orbiter 1]] || Selenocentric orbit insertion || Returned 211 images
|-
| 27 August || [[Luna 11]] || Selenocentric orbit insertion ||
|-
| 23 September || [[Surveyor 2]] || Lunar impact || Failed lander, impacted ''[[Sinus Medii]]''
|-
| 25 October || [[Luna 12]] || Selenocentric orbit insertion ||
|-
| 29 October || Lunar Orbiter 1 || Lunar impact ||
|-
| 10 November || [[Lunar Orbiter 2]] || Selenocentric orbit injection || Returned 184 images
|-
| 24 December || [[Luna 13]] || Lunar landing || in ''Oceanus Procellarum''
|-
|}

==EVAs==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|-
!Start Date/Time
!Duration
!End Time
!Spacecraft
!Crew
!Remarks
|-
|5 June<br/>15:02
|2 hours<br/>7 minutes
|17:09
|[[Gemini 9A|Gemini IX-A]]
|{{flagicon|USA}}[[Eugene Cernan]]
|A complex EVA was planned.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/gemini/gemini-ix-a/gemini-ix-a.html |title=NASA Project Gemini IX-A (9)|access-date=2009-01-01 |author=Jim Dumoulin |date=2000-08-25 |work=NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions |publisher=NASA| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090119085317/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/gemini/gemini-ix-a/gemini-ix-a.html| archive-date= 19 January 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> Cernan expended four to five times the expected effort, raising his pulse as high as 180 beats per minute. Excess heat and respiration completely fogged visor, causing the EVA to be cut short. Cernan also had difficulty returning to spacecraft and closing the hatch.<ref>Cernan "The Last Man on the Moon", p. 129-144.</ref>
|-
|19 July<br/>21:44
|{{nowrap|49 Minutes}}
|22:33
|[[Gemini 10|Gemini X]]
|{{flagicon|USA}}[[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]]
|Collins performed a stand-up EVA. Instead of climbing completely out of the spacecraft, Collins extended his torso outside the spacecraft to take photos before and after capsule sunrise. Color photography after sunrise was only partly completed due to severe eye irritation of both Collins and Command Pilot [[John Young (astronaut)|Young]]. Handling the camera proved difficult due to stiffness of spacesuit gloves.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19750067644_1975067644.pdf |title=Gemini Program Mission Report: Gemini X |access-date=2009-01-02 |last=Mathews |first=Charles W. |author2=Low, George M.  |publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration |pages=7‑5, 7‑31 |date= August 1966}}</ref>
|-
|20 July<br/>23:01
|39 minutes
|23:40
|Gemini X
|{{flagicon|USA}}Michael Collins
|Umbilical EVA;  with more difficulty than expected, Collins collected the micrometeorite collection package from the outside of Gemini. Then, using the Hand Held Maneuvering Unit, he pushed to the nearby [[RM-81 Agena|Agena]]-8 to collect its micrometeorite collection package. Collins then pulled on the umbilical cord to return and re-enter the spacecraft.<ref>Mathews [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19750067644_1975067644.pdf Gemini Program Mission Report: Gemini X], p. 7-32</ref>
|-
|13 September<br/>14:44
|33 minutes
|15:17
|[[Gemini 11|Gemini XI]]
|{{nowrap|{{flagicon|USA}}[[Richard F. Gordon Jr.]]}}
|Gordon attached a tether between Gemini and Agena 11 for later orbital mechanics testing. While making the attachment, his work load exceeded the spacesuit cooling system, and his vision became obscured by a fogged visor and sweat in his eyes. Planned activities were curtailed by Command Pilot [[Pete Conrad|Conrad]] and Gordon returned to the spacecraft.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1966-081A|title=Gemini 11|access-date=2008-01-03|year=2008|work=National Space Science Data Center|publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration}}</ref>
|-
|{{nowrap|14 September}}<br/>12:49
|2 hours<br/>8 minutes
|14:57
|Gemini XI
|{{flagicon|USA}}Richard F. Gordon Jr.
|Gordon performed a stand-up EVA. He extended through the hatch to take astronomical photos. Conrad reported the spacewalk was so relaxing they both fell asleep for a moment after sunrise.<ref>{{cite book | last =Chaikin | first =Andrew | title =A Man on the Moon | publisher =Penguin Books | year =1998 | location =New York | page =[https://archive.org/details/manonmoonvoyages00chai/page/243 243] | isbn =0-670-81446-6 | url-access =registration | url =https://archive.org/details/manonmoonvoyages00chai }}</ref>
|-
|12 November<br/>16:15
|2 hours<br/>29 minutes
|18:44
|[[Gemini 12|Gemini XII]]
|{{flagicon|USA}}[[Buzz Aldrin]]
|Aldrin performed a stand-up EVA. Aldrin stood, took UV still photos and 16&nbsp;mm color movie pictures, collected external experimental samples, and conducted a light exercise routine.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790076631_1979076631.pdf |title=Gemini XII Program Mission Report |access-date=2008-01-05 |last=Mathews |first=Charles W. |author2=Low, George M. |date=January 1967 |publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration |pages=7–27}}</ref>
|-
|13 November<br/>15:34
|2 hours<br/>6 minutes
|17:40
|Gemini XII
|{{flagicon|USA}}Buzz Aldrin
|First completely successful umbilical EVA, with all objectives achieved. Aldrin was able to control his movements and restrict his work load using techniques developed using underwater zero gravity simulations. He also benefited from experiences of the previous American EVAs and was able to move around the outside of the craft, deploy and recover various experimental packages, install and remove cameras, and practice work techniques using a ratchet-type wrench.<ref>Mathews, [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790076631_1979076631.pdf Gemini XII Program Mission Report], p. 7-28, 7-29, 7-43</ref>
|-
|14 November<br/>14:52
|55 minutes
|15:47
|Gemini XII
|{{flagicon|USA}}Buzz Aldrin
|Aldrin performed a second stand-up EVA.  He again extended outside the hatch to take photographs and repeat the light exercise experiment. Exertion levels during exercise were comparable to preflight simulations. Equipment and waste food containers not needed for reentry were jettisoned from the spacecraft.<ref>Mathews, [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790076631_1979076631.pdf Gemini XII Program Mission Report], p. 7-30</ref>
|}

==Orbital launch statistics==
===By country===
{{Pie chart
| radius = 120
| legend = false
| thumb = left
| label1 = United States:
| value1 = 80
| color1 = #484785
| label2 = Soviet Union:
| value2 = 53
| color2 = #a52a2a
| label3 = Japan:
| value3 = 2
| color3 = #ffffff
| label4 = France:
| value4 = 1
| color4 = #318ce7
}}

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ {{sronly|Launches by country}}
! scope=col colspan=2 | Country
! scope=col | Launches
! scope=col | Successes
! scope=col | Failures
! scope=col | Partial<br/>failures
|-
! scope=row style="background:#318ce7;" | || style="text-align:left;" | {{FRA}}
| 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 
|-
! scope=row style="background:#ffffff;" | || style="text-align:left;" | {{JPN|1870}} 
| 2{{efn|First launch attempt}} || 0 || 2 || 0 
|-
! scope=row style="background:#a52a2a;" | || style="text-align:left;" | {{flagcountry|USSR|1955}}
| 53 || 42 || 9 || 2 
|-
! scope=row style="background:#484785;" | || style="text-align:left;" | {{USA}}
| 80 || 74 || 7 || 0 
|-
! colspan="2" | World || {{sum|1|2|53|80}} || {{sum|1|0|42|74}} || {{sum|0|2|9|7}} || {{sum|0|0|2|0}} 
|}
{{clear}}

==References==
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===Footnotes===
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