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		First instance of two simultaneous manned spacecraft.
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		17 January 1969 Soyuz 4		First docking of two manned spacecraft.
Boris Volynov	15 January 1969 Soyuz 5		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	5 June 1985 Soyuz T-13	Salyut 7		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	17 September 1985 Soyuz T-14	Salyut 7		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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