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The launch escape system fires following the failed launch of ... Orbital launch attempts by country in 1960: ... 29: 16: 13: 0: By rocket. Rocket Country Launches ...
A memorial to the victims of the test was erected in the first half of the 1960s in the Park of Baikonur and is still visited by RKA officials before any manned launch. [ 17 ] Another fatal accident , with the R-9 missile, occurred at Baikonur exactly three years after the Nedelin catastrophe, causing 24 October to be referred to as Baikonur's ...
The investigation found that cold weather conditions caused an O-ring seal to fail, allowing hot gases from the shuttle's solid rocket booster (SRB) to impinge on the external propellant tank and booster strut. The strut and aft end of the tank failed, allowing the top of the SRB to rotate into the top of the tank and causing it to explode.
Rocket S/N Launch Site Payload Function Orbit Outcome Remarks 1960-02-04 18:51:45 Thor DM-18 Agena-A: Thor 218 Agena 1052: VAFB LC-75-3-4 Discoverer 9: Reconnaissance LEO: Failure Premature Thor cutoff. Agena could not attain orbital velocity. 1960-02-19 20:15:14 Thor DM-18 Agena-A Thor 223 Agena 1054 VAFB LC-75-3-5 Discoverer 10 ...
Intended to be an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight, it was launched on November 21, 1960 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The launch failed in an abnormal fashion: immediately after the Mercury-Redstone rocket started to move, it shut itself down and settled back on the pad, after which the capsule jettisoned its escape rocket ...
Ranger 5, launched 18 October 1962, lunar probe, spacecraft failed, missed Moon Block 2 of the Ranger project launched three spacecraft to the Moon in 1962, carrying a TV camera, a radiation detector, and a seismometer in a separate capsule slowed by a rocket motor and packaged to survive its low-speed impact on the Moon's surface.
Launch spacecraft Habitation Return spacecraft Brief mission summary 1 Yuri Gagarin: 12 April 1961 Vostok 1: First crewed spaceflight. Reached Low Earth Orbit (LEO), flew around the Earth one time. 2 Alan Shepard (1) 5 May 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3 : First American crewed spaceflight. Did not reach Earth orbit, maximum altitude: 187 km (116 miles).
Rocket S/N Launch Site Payload Function Orbit Outcome Remarks 1963-01-25 10:44 Atlas D 39D VAFB 576B2: NTMP K-9 Nike-Zeus target missile test Suborbital Failure Loss of sustainer insulation boot at liftoff results in high thrust section temperatures, followed by complete propulsion system shutdown at T+126 seconds. 1963-01-31 08:51 Atlas D 176D ...