# 1965 in spaceflight

* ← Jan
* Feb
* Mar
* Apr
* May
* Jun
* Jul
* Aug
* Sep
* Oct
* Nov
* Dec →

## Deep Space Rendezvous

| Date (UTC) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
| 20 February | Ranger 8 | Lunar impact | Impacted Mare Tranquillitatis at 09:57:37, returned 7,137 images |
| 24 March | Ranger 9 | Lunar impact | Impacted Alphonsus Crater at 14:08:20, returned 5,814 images |
| 12 May | Luna 5 | Lunar impact | Failed lander, impacted at 19:10 |
| 11 June | Luna 6 | Lunar flyby | Failed lander, closest approach: 160,000 kilometres (99,000 mi) |
| 15 July | Mariner 4 | Flyby of Mars | Returned 21 images |
| 20 July | Zond 2 | Flyby of Mars | Communications system failed before flyby |
| 6 August | Zond 3 | Lunar Flyby | Returned 25 images |
| 7 October | Luna 7 | Lunar impact | Failed lander, impacted at 22:08 |
| 6 December | Luna 8 | Lunar impact | Failed lander, impacted at 21:51:30 |

## EVAs

| Start date/time | Duration | End time | Spacecraft | Crew | Remarks |
| 18 March 08:34 | 12 minutes | 08:47 | Voskhod 2 | Alexei Leonov | First EVA in history. Leonov had difficulty fitting back into the spacecraft due to spacesuit stiffness in vacuum. He vented air from his spacesuit to bend back into the capsule. |
| 3 June 19:46 | 20 minutes | 20:06 | Gemini IV | Ed White | First US EVA. White also had difficulty returning to the Gemini spacecraft. Although very fit, the effort left White exhausted. |

## Orbital launch summary
### By country

* France
* Soviet Union
* United States
Orbital launch attempts by country in 1965 :
| Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
| France | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | First orbital launch |
| Soviet Union | 53 | 46 | 7 | 0 | |
| United States | 70 | 61 | 8 | 1 | |

### By rocket

| Rocket | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
| Atlas D | United States | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Suborbital component of one failed launch was successful |
| Atlas LV-3A Agena-B | United States | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Atlas LV-3A Agena-D | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D | United States | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | |
| Atlas LV-3C Centaur-C | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Retired |
| Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Delta C | United States | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| Delta D | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Delta E | United States | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Diamant A | France | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Kosmos-1 63S3 | Soviet Union | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Kosmos-2I 63S1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | |
| Kosmos-2M 63S1M | Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Molniya 8K78 | Soviet Union | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | Retired |
| Molniya-L 8K78L | Soviet Union | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Retired |
| Molniya-M 8K78M | Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| Saturn I | United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Scout A | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Scout B | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Scout X-4 | United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Soyuz/Vostok 11A510 | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Thor DSV-2A Ablestar | United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Thor LV-2D Burner-1 | United States | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Thor LV-2D MG-18 | United States | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Only flights |
| Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Retired |
| Thor SLV-2 Agena-D | United States | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Thrust Augmented Thor SLV-2A Agena-D | United States | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Titan II GLV | United States | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Also made one suborbital launch |
| Titan IIIA | United States | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Titan IIIC | United States | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Maiden flight |
| Voskhod 11A57 | Soviet Union | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vostok-2 8A92 | Soviet Union | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
| Vostok-2M 8A92M | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| UR-500 (Proton) 8K72 | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |

### By orbit

| Orbital regime | Launches | Achieved | Not Achieved | Accidentally Achieved | Remarks |
| Low Earth | 96 | 85 | 9 | 2 | |
| Medium Earth | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
| High Earth | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | Including Highly elliptical and Molniya orbits |
| Geosynchronous/transfer | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1* | * - One launch to geosynchronous orbit reached geosynchronous transfer orbit |
| Heliocentric | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |