List of human spaceflights, 1961-1986

Detailed listing of human spaceflights from 1961 to 1986, spanning the Russian Vostok, Voskhod, and Salyut programs and the American Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, as well as the Space Shuttle program through the Challenger disaster.

Name Launch
Vehicle
Habitation Return
Vehicle
Brief Mission Summary
Yuri Gagarin 12 April 1961
Vostok 1
First human spaceflight
Alan Shepard 5 May 1961
Mercury 3
First American spaceflight; suborbital.
Virgil Grissom 21 July 1961
Mercury 4
Second American suborbital flight.
Gherman Titov 6 August 1961
Vostok 2
7 August 1961
Vostok 2
Day-long orbital flight;
brief manual control by pilot.
John Glenn 20 February 1962
Mercury 6
First American orbital flight.
Scott Carpenter 24 May 1962
Mercury 7
First manual retrofire.
Andrian Nikolayev 11 August 1962
Vostok 3
15 August 1962
Vostok 3
First instance of two simultaneous manned spacecraft.
Pavel Popovich 12 August 1962
Vostok 4
15 August 1962
Vostok 4
Wally Schirra 3 October 1962
Mercury 8
First flawless Mercury mission.
Gordon Cooper 15 May 1963
Mercury 9
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.
Joseph A. Walker 23 August 1963
X-15 Flight 91
First person to fly into space twice.
Vladimir Komarov
Konstantin Feoktistov
Boris Yegorov
12 October 1964
Voskhod 1
13 October 1964
Voskhod 1
First multiple person spaceflight.
Aleksei Leonov
Pavel Belyayev
18 March 1965
Voskhod 2
19 March 1965
Voskhod 2
First EVA
Virgil 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.
Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
15 December 1965
Gemini 6A
16 December 1965
Gemini 6A
First space rendezvous.
Neil Armstrong
David Scott
16 March 1966
Gemini 8
17 March 1966
Gemini 8
First docking in space.
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.
Jim Lovell
Buzz Aldrin
11 November 1966
Gemini 12
15 November 1966
Gemini 12
First manual rendezvous.
Vladimir Komarov 23 April 1967
Soyuz 1
24 April 1967
Soyuz 1
First fatality during spaceflight.
Wally Schirra
Donn Eisele
Walter Cunningham
11 October 1968
Apollo 7
22 October 1968
Apollo 7
First three person U.S. crew.
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 lunar orbit
Vladimir Shatalov 14 January 1969
Soyuz 4
17 January 1969
Soyuz 4
First crew transfer between space vehicles.
Aleksei Yeliseyev
Yevgeny Khrunov
15 January 1969
Soyuz 5
First docking of two manned spacecraft.
Boris Volynov 18 January 1969
Soyuz 5
First crew transfer between space vehicles.
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
First three craft spaceflight.
Vladimir Shatalov
Aleksei Yeliseyev
13 October 1969
Soyuz 8
18 October 1969
Soyuz 8
First three craft spaceflight.
Pete Conrad
Dick Gordon
Alan Bean
14 November 1969
Apollo 12
24 November 1969
Apollo 12
Presicion moon landing near Surveyor 3.
Jim Lovell
Jack Swigert
Fred Haise
11 April 1970
Apollo 13
17 April 1970
Apollo 13
Lunar landing aborted following accident en route.
Andrian Nikolayev
Vitali Sevastyanov
1 June 1970
Soyuz 9
19 June 1970
Soyuz 9
Record duration mission for single spacecraft.
Alan Shepard
Stuart Roosa
Edgar Mitchell
31 January 1971
Apollo 14
9 February 1971
Apollo 14
Shepard only one of Mercury Astronauts to walk on moon.
Vladimir Shatalov
Aleksei Yeliseyev
Nikolai Rukavishnikov
23 April 1971
Soyuz 10
25 April 1971
Soyuz 10
Failed to board Salyut space station.
Georgi Dobrovolski
Viktor Patsayev
Vladislav Volkov
6 June 1971
Soyuz 11
Salyut 1 29 June 1971
Soyuz 11
First manned space station. Died on reentry due to air leak.
David Scott
Alfred Worden
James Irwin
26 July 1971
Apollo 15
7 August 1971
Apollo 15
Drove Lunar Rover on moon.
John W. Young
Ken Mattingly
Charles Duke
16 April 1972
Apollo 16
27 April 1972
Apollo 16
 
Gene Cernan
Ron Evans
Harrison Schmitt
7 December 1972
Apollo 17
19 December 1972
Apollo 17
Last lunar landing
Pete Conrad
Paul Weitz
Joseph Kerwin
25 May 1973
Skylab 2
Skylab 22 June 1973
Skylab 2
Spent almost one month in space.
Alan Bean
Jack Lousma
Owen Garriott
28 July 1973
Skylab 3
Skylab 25 September 1973
Skylab 3
Spent almost two months in space.
Vasili Lazarev
Oleg Makarov
27 September 1973
Soyuz 12
29 September 1973
Soyuz 12
 
Gerald Carr
William Pogue
Edward Gibson
16 November 1973
Skylab 4
8 February 1974
Skylab 4
Spent almost three months in space.
Valentin Lebedev
Pyotr Klimuk
18 December 1973
Soyuz 13
26 December 1973
Soyuz 13
 
Yuri Artyukhin
Pavel Popovich
3 July 1974
Soyuz 14
Salyut 3 19 July 1974
Soyuz 14
 
Lev Demin
Gennadi Sarafanov
26 August 1974
Soyuz 15
28 August 1974
Soyuz 15
 
Anatoli Filipchenko
Nikolai Rukavishnikov
2 December 1974
Soyuz 16
Apollo-Soyuz 8 December 1974
Soyuz 16
 
Georgi Grechko
Aleksei Gubarev
11 January 1975
Soyuz 17
Salyut 4 10 February 1975
Soyuz 17
 
Vasili Lazarev
Oleg Makarov
5 April 1975
Soyuz 18a
 
Pyotr Klimuk
Vitali Sevastyanov
24 May 1975
Soyuz 18
Salyut 4 26 July 1975
Soyuz 18
 
Alexei Leonov
Valery Kubasov
15 July 1975
Soyuz 19
Apollo-Soyuz 21 July 1975
Soyuz 19
First joint Soviet - U.S. spaceflight.
Tom Stafford
Vance Brand
Deke Slayton
15 July 1975
Apollo 18
Apollo-Soyuz 24 July 1975
Apollo 18
First joint U.S. - Soviet spaceflight.
Boris Volynov
Vitali Zholobov
6 June 1976
Soyuz 21
Salyut 5 24 August 1976
Soyuz 21
 
Valery Bykovsky
Vladimir Askyonov
9 September 1976
Soyuz 22
23 September 1976
Soyuz 22
 
Vyacheslav Zudov
Valeri Rozhdestvenski
14 October 1976
Soyuz 23
16 October 1976
Soyuz 23
 
Viktor Gorbatko
Yuri Glazkov
7 February 1977
Soyuz 24
Salyut 5 25 February 1977
Soyuz 24
 
Vladimir Kovalyonok
Valeri Ryumin
9 October 1977
Soyuz 25
11 October 1977
Soyuz 25
 
Georgi Grechko
Yuri Romanenko
10 December 1977
Soyuz 26
Salyut 6 16 March 1978
Soyuz 27
 
Vladimir A. Dzhanibekov
Oleg G. Makarov
10 January 1978
Soyuz 27
Salyut 6 16 January 1978
Soyuz 26
 
Aleksey A. Gubarev
Vladimír Remek
2 March 1978
Soyuz 28
Salyut 6 10 March 1978
Soyuz 28
Remek: first astronaut from Czechoslovakia
Vladimir V. Kovalenok
Alexander S. Ivanchenkov
16 June 1978
Soyuz 29
Salyut 6 3 September 1987
Soyuz 29
 
Pyotr I. Klimuk
Miroslaw Hermaszenski
28 June 1978
Soyuz 30
Salyut 6 4 July 1978
Soyuz 30
Hermaszenski: first astronaut from Poland
Valeri F. Bykovsky
Sigmund Jaehn
26 June 1978
Soyuz 31
Salyut 6 2 November 1978
Soyuz 31
Jaehn: first astronaut from East Germany
Vladmir A. Lyakhov
Valeri V. Ryumin
25 February 1979
Soyuz 32
Salyut 6 19 August 1979
Soyuz 34
 
Nikolai N. Rukavishnikov
Georgi I. Ivanov
11 April 1979
Soyuz 33
Salyut 6 12 April 1979
Soyuz 33
Ivanov: first astronaut from Bulgaria
Leonid I. Popov
Valeri V. Ryumin
9 April 1980
Soyuz 35
Salyut 6 11 October 1980
Soyuz 37
 
Valeri N. Kubasov
Bertalan Farkas
26 May 1980
Soyuz 36
Salyut 6 3 June 1980
Soyuz 35
Farkas: First Hungarian in space
Yuri V. Malyshev
Valdimir V. Askenov
5 June 1980
Soyuz T-2
Salyut 6 9 June 1980
Soyuz T-2
 
Viktor V. Gorbatko
Pham Tuan
23 July 1980
Soyuz 37
Salyut 6 31 July 1980
Soyuz 36
 
Yuri V. Romanenko
Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez
18 September 1980
Soyuz 38
Salyut 6 26 September 1980
Soyuz 38
Tamayo-Mendez - First person of African descent to fly in space.
Leonid D. Kizim
Oleg G. Makarov
Gennadi M. Strekalov
27 November 1980
Soyuz T-3
Salyut 6 10 December 1980
Soyuz T-3
 
Vladimir V. Kovalenok
Viktor P. Savinykh
13 March 1981
Soyuz T-4
Salyut 6 26 May 1981
Soyuz T-4
 
Valdimir A. Dzanibekov
Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha
22 March 1981
Soyuz 39
Salyut 6 29 March 1981
Soyuz 39
 
John W. Young
Robert L. Crippen
12 April 1981
STS-1, Columbia
14 April 1981
STS-1, Columbia
First space shuttle flight; systems test.
Leonid I. Popov
Dumitru Prunariu
14 May 1981
Soyuz 40
Salyut 6 22 May 1981
Soyuz 40
 
Joseph H. Engle
Richard H. Truly
12 November 1981
STS-2, Columbia
14 November 1981
STS-2, Columbia
 
Jack R. Lousma
C. Gordon Fullerton
22 March 1982
STS-3, Columbia
30 March 1982
STS-3, Columbia
 
Anatoli Brergovoy
Valentine V. Lebedev
12 May 1982
Soyuz T-5
Salyut 7 10 December 1982
Soyuz T-7
 
Vladmiri A. Dzanibekov
Alexander S. Ivanchenkov
Jean-Loup Chrétien
24 June 1982
Soyuz T-6
Salyut 7 2 July 1982
Soyuz T-6
 
Thomas K. Mattingly
Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr.
27 June 1982
STS-4, Columbia
4 July 1982
STS-4, Columbia
Final space shuttle R&D flight
Leonid I. Popov
Alexander A. Serebov
Svetlana Y. Savitskaya
19 August 1982
Soyuz T-7
Salyut 7 27 August 1982
Soyuz T-5
 
Vance D. Brand
Robert F. Overmyer
Joseph P. Allen
William B. Lenoir
11 November 1982
STS-5, Columbia
16 November 1982
STS-5, Columbia
Launched commercial ANIK C-3
and SBS-C communications satellites
Paul J. Weitz
Karol J. Bobko
Donald H. Peterson
F. Story Musgrave
4 April 1983
STS-6, Challenger
9 April 1983
STS-6, Challenger
First shuttle-based space walk.
Vladimir G. Titov
Gennadi M. Strekalov
Alexander A. Serebrov
20 April 1983
Soyuz T-8
22 April 1983
Soyuz T-8
 
Robert L. Crippen
Frederick H. Hauck
John M. Fabian
Sally K. Ride
Norman E. Thagard
18 June 1983
STS-7, Challenger
24 June 1983
STS-7, Challenger
First American woman in space;
microgravity experiments.
Vladimir A. Lyakhov
Alexander P. Alexandrov
26 June 1983
Soyuz T-9
Salyut 7 23 November 1983
Soyuz T-9
 
Richard H. Truly
Daniel C. Brandenstein
Dale A. Gardner
Guion Bluford
William E. Thornton
30 August 1983
STS-8, Challenger
5 September 1983
STS-8, Challenger
First African-American in space;
deployed INSAT-1B for India
John W. Young
Brewster H. Shaw
Owen K. Garriott
Robert A. Parker
Byron K. Lichtenberg
Ulf Merbold
28 November 1983
STS-9, Columbia
8 December 1983
STS-9, Columbia
First Spacelab mission;
first ESA astronaut.
Vance D. Brand
Robert L. Gibson
Bruce McCandless II
Ronald E. McNair
Robert L. Stewart
3 February 1984
STS-41-B, Challenger
11 February 1984
STS-41-B, Challenger
First untethered spacewalk.
Leonid D. Kizim
Vladimir A. Solovyev
Oleg Y. Atkov
4 February 1984
Soyuz T-10
Salyut 7 2 October 1984
Soyuz T-11
 
Yuri V. Malyshev
Gennadi M. Strekalov
Rakesh Sharma
3 April 1984
Soyuz T-11
Salyut 7 11 April 1984
Soyuz T-10
 
Robert L. Crippen
Francis R. "Dick" Scobee
George D. Nelson
James D. A. van Hoften
Terry J. Hart
6 April 1984
STS-41-C, Challenger
13 April 1984
STS-41-C, Challenger
LDEF deployed for later retrieval.
Vladimir A. Dzanibekov
Igor P. Volk
Svetlana Y. Savitskaya
17 July 1984
Soyuz T-12
Salyut 7 29 July 1984
Soyuz T-12
First EVA by a female astronaut
Henry W. Hartsfield
Michael L. Coats
Judith A. Resnik
Steven A. Hawley
Richard M. Mullane
Charles D. Walker
30 August 1984
STS-41-D, Discovery
5 September 1984
STS-41-D, Discovery
Testing of experimental solar arrays;
three satellites deployed.
Robert L. Crippen
Jon A. McBride
Kathryn D. Sullivan
Sally K. Ride
David C. Leestma
Marc Garneau
Paul D. Scully-Power
5 October 1984
STS-41-G, Challenger
13 October 1984
STS-41-G, Challenger
First EVA by an American woman;
First Canadian in space;
First flight including two women;
ERBS satellite deployed.
Frederick H. Hauck
David Walker
Anna Fisher
Dale A. Gardner
Joseph P. Allen
8 November 1984
STS-51-A, Discovery
16 November 1984
STS-51-A, Discovery
Deployed 2 communications satellites; retrieved 2 malfunctioning satellites.
Thomas K. Mattingly II
Loren J. Shriver
Ellison S. Onizuka
James F. Buchli
Gary E. Payton
24 January 1985
STS-51-C, Discovery
27 January 1985
STS-51-C, Discovery
 
Karol J. Bobko
Donald E. Williams
M. Rhea Seddon
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
S. David Griggs
Charles D. Walker
E. Jake Garn
12 April 1985
STS-51-D, Discovery
19 April 1985
STS-51-D, Discovery
 
Robert F. Overmyer
Frederick D. Gregory
Don L. Lind
Norman E. Thagard
William E. Thornton
Lodewijk van den Berg
Taylor G. Wang
29 April 1985
STS-51-B, Challenger
6 May 1985
STS-51-B, Challenger
 
Vladimir A. Dzanibekov 5 June 1985
Soyuz T-13
Salyut 7 26 September 1985
Soyuz T-13
 
Viktor P. Savinykh 21 November 1985
Soyuz T-14
 
Daniel C. Brandenstein
John O. Creighton
Shannon W. Lucid
Steven R. Nagel
John M. Fabian
Patrick Baudry
Sultan Salman Al-Saud
17 June 1985
STS-51-G, Discovery
24 June 1985
STS-51-G, Discovery
 
Gordon Fullerton
Roy D. Bridges
F. Story Musgrave
Anthony W. England
Karl G. Henize
Loren W. Acton
John-David F. Bartoe
29 July 1985
STS-51-F, Challenger
6 August 1985
STS-51-F, Challenger
 
Joseph H. Engle
Richard O. Covey
James D. A. van Hoften
John M. Lounge
William F. Fisher
27 August 1985
STS-51-I, Discovery
3 September 1985
STS-51-I, Discovery
 
Vladimir V. Vasyutin
Alexander A. Volkov
17 September 1985
Soyuz T-14
Salyut 7 21 November 1985
Soyuz T-14
 
Georgi M. Grechko 26 September 1985
Soyuz T-13
 
Karol J. Bobko
Ronald J. Grabe
David C. Hilmers
Robert L. Stewart
William A. Pailes
3 October 1985
STS-51-J, Atlantis
7 October 1985
STS-51-J, Atlantis
 
Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr.
Steven R. Nagel
James F. Buchli
Guion Bluford
Bonnie J. Dunbar
Reinhard Furrer
Ernst Messerschmid
Wubbo J. Ockels
30 October 1985
STS-61-A, Challenger
6 November 1985
STS-61-A, Challenger
 
Brewster H. Shaw, Jr.
Bryan D. O'Connor
Mary L. Cleave
Sherwood C. Spring
Jerry L. Ross
Rodolfo Neri Vela
Charles D. Walker
26 November 1985
STS-61-B, Atlantis
3 December 1985
STS-61-B, Atlantis
 
Robert L. Gibson
Charles F. Bolden
Franklin R. Chang-Diaz
Steven A. Hawley
George D. Nelson
Robert J. Cenker
Bill Nelson
12 January 1986
STS-61-C, Columbia
18 January 1986
STS-61-C, Columbia
 
Francis R. "Dick" Scobee
Michael J. Smith
Judith A. Resnik
Ellison S. Onizuka
Ronald E. McNair
Gregory B. Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe
28 January 1986
STS-51-L, Challenger
 Exploded 73 seconds after launch.
Leonid D. Kizim
Vladimir A. Solovyev
13 March 1986
Soyuz T-15
Mir, Salyut 7 16 July 1986
Soyuz T-15
 
Continued in List of human spaceflights, 1987-1999
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