Chronology of U.S. Astronaut Missions (1961 - 1972)

Mission Timeline


| 1961
|-- Mercury Redstone 3 - 5 May 1961 - Earth Suborbital  (Shepard)
|-- Mercury Redstone 4 - 21 July 1961 - Earth Suborbital  (Grissom)
| 1962
|-- Mercury Atlas 6 - 20 February 1962 - Earth Orbiter  (Glenn)
|-- Mercury Atlas 7 - 24 May 1962 - Earth Orbiter  (Carpenter)
|-- Mercury Atlas 8 - 3 October 1962 - Earth Orbiter  (Schirra)
| 1963
|-- Mercury Atlas 9 - 15 May 1963 - Earth Orbiter  (Cooper)
| 1964
| 1965
|-- Gemini 3 - 23 March 1965 - Earth Orbiter  (Grissom, Young)
|-- Gemini 4 - 3 June 1965 - Earth Orbiter  (McDivitt, White)
|-- Gemini 5 - 21 August 1965 - Earth Orbiter  (Cooper, Conrad)
|-- Gemini 7 - 4 December 1965 - Earth Orbiter  (Borman, Lovell)
|-- Gemini 6A - 15 December 1965 - Earth Orbiter  (Schirra, Stafford)
| 1966
|-- Gemini 8 - 16 March 1966 - Earth Orbiter  (Armstrong, Scott)
|-- Gemini 9A - 3 June 1966 - Earth Orbiter  (Stafford, Cernan)
|-- Gemini 10 - 18 July 1966 - Earth Orbiter  (Young, Collins)
|-- Gemini 11 - 12 September 1966 - Earth Orbiter  (Conrad, Gordon)
|-- Gemini 12 - 11 November 1966 - Earth Orbiter  (Lovell, Aldrin)
| 1967
| 1968
|-- Apollo 7 - 11 October 1968 - Earth Orbiter  (Schirra, Eisele, Cunningham)
|-- Apollo 8 - 21 December 1968 - Lunar Orbiter  (Borman, Lovell, Anders)
| 1969
|-- Apollo 9 - 3 March 1969 - Earth Orbiter  (McDivitt, Scott, Schweikart)
|-- Apollo 10 - 18 May 1969 - Lunar Orbiter  (Stafford, Young, Cernan)
|-- Apollo 11 - 16 July 1969 - Lunar Landing  (Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins)
|-- Apollo 12 - 14 November 1969 - Lunar Landing  (Conrad, Bean, Gordon)
| 1970
|-- Apollo 13 - 11 April 1970 - Lunar Mission - Landing Aborted  (Lovell, Haise, Swigert)
| 1971
|-- Apollo 14 - 31 January 1971 - Lunar Landing  (Shepard, Mitchell, Roosa)
|-- Apollo 15 - 26 July 1971 - Lunar Landing  (Scott, Irwin, Worden)
| 1972
|-- Apollo 16 - 16 April 1972 - Lunar Landing  (Young, Duke, Mattingly)
|-- Apollo 17 - 7 December 1972 - Lunar Landing  (Cernan, Schmitt, Evans)

Other Missions

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Last Updated: 20 November 2007, DRW