More Vostok missions

Mercury-Thor 3. Freedom 7. March 25,1961. Alan Shepard. First manned spaceflight. Suborbital. Basic test of manned spacecraft.
Vostok 1. Cedar. April 12,1961. Yuri Gagarin. A single orbit flight test of Vostok systems.
Mercury-Thor 4. Liberty 7. June 18,1961. Virgil Grissom. Repeat of Freedom 7.
Vostok 2. Eagle. August 6-7,1961. Gherman Titov. First long-duration space mission.
Mercury-Thor 5. Eagle 7. October 3,1961. Gordon Cooper. Last Mercury-Thor flight. At apogee,Cooper used his retro-rockets to boost apogee to 158 miles.
Mercury-Atlas 6. Friendship 7. January 27,1962. John Glenn. First American manned orbital mission.
Vostok 3. Wolf. February 20-22,1962. Grigori Nelyubov. Repeat of Vostok 2. Limited human physiology experiments performed.
Mercury-Atlas 7. Aurora 7. May 24,1962. Scott Carpenter. Longer repeat of Friendship 7.
Vostok 4. Falcon. July 26-30,1962. Andrian Nikolayev. First manned group flight.
Vostok 5. Golden Eagle. July 27-August 1,1962. Pavel Popovich. See above.
Mercury-Atlas 8. Sigma 7. Wally Schirra. August 11,1962. Science and engineering experiments conducted. This mission would’ve lasted 15 hours,but a fire broke out which forced an early landing,forcing NASA to abandon the use of pure oxygen.
Vostok 6. Diamond. November 4-6,1962. Pavel Belyayev. High-altitude mission (580 miles).
Vostok 7. Hawk. March 10-15,1963. Valery Bykovsky. Second manned group flight.
Vostok 8. Seagull. March 12-16,1963. Valentina Ponomareva. First spaceflight with a woman.
Mercury-Atlas 9. Delta 7. May 15-16,1963. Deke Slayton. Extended science spaceflight.
Vostok 9. Baikal. August 24-28,1963. Boris Volynov. Repeat of Vostok 6. Achieved 820 miles altitude. Last solo Vostok mission. Landed one day early due to cosmonaut’s health.
Vostok 10. Wolf. December 7-14,1963. Grigori Nelyubov,Georgi Katys. First spaceflight with two crew members. Conducted tether experiments with upper stage.
Kosmos 54. March 16-17,1964. Tested the Vostok 11 airlock.
Mercury-Atlas 10. Faith 7. March 18-20,1964. Gordo Cooper. Last Mercury flight.
Vostok 11. Ruby. May 1-5,1964. Vladimir Komarov,Alexei Leonov. Leonov performed first EVA. Achieved 785 miles altitude.
Vostok 12. Cedar. October 12-15,1964. Yuri Gagarin,Sergei Khrushchev,Zhanna Sergeychik. First spaceflight with three crew members. Intended long duration scientific mission. Aborted early due to political reasons.
Vostok 13. Diamond. January 5-11,1965. Pavel Belyayev,Viktor Gorbatko,Irina Solovyeva. Reflight of Vostok 12 with that mission’s backup crew. Gorbatko performed second EVA.
Gemini 3. Gemini. March 23,1965. Virgil Grissom,Tom Stafford. First manned Gemini mission. First manned launch of a Saturn rocket.
Gemini 4. Eagle. June 3-7,1965. Jim McDivitt,John Young. First American EVA,and multiple science experiments.
Vostok 14. Argon. July 20-26,1965. Georgi Beregovoi,Valentin Yershov. Achieved 1600 miles altitude with use of Blok V rocket booster.
Gemini 5. Conestoga. August 21-29,1965. Gordo Cooper,Pete Conrad. Set long-duration endurance record of eight days.
Gemini 6. Retriever. October 25-28,1965. Alan Shepard,Ed White. First docking with an Agena-G rocket.
Gemini 7. Endurance. December 4-18,1965. Frank Borman,Jim Lovell. Long-duration mission.
Vostok 15. Eagle. December 11-22,1965. Gherman Titov,Mars Rafikov. Scientific mission.
Apollo 1. February 26,1966. Unmanned suborbital CSM test. First flight of Saturn IB.
Gemini 8. Flyer. March 16-20,1966. Deke Slayton,Neil Armstrong. Docked to an Agena rocket and boosted orbit to 480 miles. Armstrong made a spacewalk.
Gemini 9. Intrepid. May 17-25,1966. Tom Stafford,David Scott. Repeat of Gemini 8. The Agena boosted the orbit to 700 miles. Last Gemini mission to splash down.
Gemini 10. America. June 6-19,1966. John Young,Eugene Cernan. Solo scientific mission. First Gemini mission to land under Rogallo wing.
Vostok 16. Falcon. July 2-15,1966. Andrian Nikolayev,Alexander Kisilev,Yuri Senkevich. Last Vostok mission. Tether dynamics experiments were conducted with the upper stage,as well as medical science experiments.
Apollo 2. July 4,1966. Repeat of Apollo 1.
Gemini 11. Albatross. July 18-24,1966. Pete Conrad,Dick Gordon. Docked with an Agena: after a reboost to 920 miles they retrieved the GRAB satellite for return to Earth.
AS-203. August 12,1966. Test of S-IVB upper stage.
Gemini 12. Explorer. September 9-16,1966. Gordo Cooper,Buzz Aldrin. Docked with an Agena:although a reboost was cancelled Aldrin performed two EVAs.
Gemini 13. Voyager. October 24-November 11,1966. Jim Lovell,Michael Collins. Repeat of Gemini 12, docked with two Agenas.
Gemini 14. Falcon. December 6-17,1966. Wally Schirra,Alan Bean. Docked with an Agena for reboost to simulated translunar trajectory (reached 26,000 miles altitude),tether experiments performed. Bean performed three EVAs.
Soyuz 1. Cedar. December 21-23,1966. Yuri Gagarin. First flight test of Soyuz. Experienced minor control problems.
Gemini 15. Selene. January 25-February 1,1967. Elliott See,Charlie Bassett. First manned flight around the Moon. Used a Centaur rocket stage for reboost into translunar trajectory. Closest approach to Moon on January 28 was 1,450 miles.
Soyuz 2. Antaeus. April 23-28,1967. Georgi Shonin,Vladislav Volkov. Repeat of Soyuz 1.
Apollo 3. Endeavour. May 22-June 7,1967. Alan Shepard,Ed White,Roger Chaffee. First manned Apollo mission. Long-duration endurance test.
Apollo 4. June 14,1967. Unmanned LM test.
Gemini 16. Veritas. June 18-27,1967. Tom Stafford,Rusty Schweickart. Last mainstream Gemini mission. Repeat of Gemini 10.
Soyuz 3. Golden Eagle. July 31-August 6,1967. Pavel Popovich. Served as a docking target for Soyuz 4.
Soyuz 4. Amur. August 1-8,1967. Vladimir Shatalov,Sergei Khrushchev,Alexei Yeliseyev . Docked with Soyuz 3, after which Khrushchev and Yeliseyev spacewalked to the other Soyuz.
Apollo 5. November 9,1967. First launch of Saturn V.
Apollo 6. Gumdrop / Spider. January 22-February 1,1968. Jim McDivitt,Dave Scott,Bill Anders. Dual launch of Saturn IBs with LM and CSM. After standup EVA by Anders,McDivitt and Anders transferred to Spider and flew it for systems and propulsion tests.
Soyuz 5. Argon. February 27-March 8,1968. Georgi Beregovoi,Oleg Makarov. Extended Soyuz systems test + communications relay for Zond 5.
Apollo 7. April 4-10,1968. Second launch of Saturn V, unmanned lunar flyby.
Soyuz 6. Baikal. August 13-22,1968. Boris Volynov,Valentina Tereshkova,Valery Kubasov. First Soyuz scientific mission. Kubasov performed welding experiments and on August 19 Tereshkova became the first woman to walk in space.
Skylab. August 22,1968-December 17,1976. The first space station.
Apollo 8. Skylab. August 31-September 27,1968. Wally Schirra,Donn Eisele,Joe Kerwin. First operational visit to Skylab.
Gemini 17. Visitor. November 5-December 11,1968. Charles Bassett,Curt Michel,Al Crews. Performed solar observations from Skylab.
Apollo 9. Jules Verne. December 21-27,1968. Frank Borman,Mike Collins,Gene Cernan. First manned lunar orbital mission.
Zarya 1. January 17,1969-June 30,1971. First Soviet space station.
Soyuz 7. Diamond. January 27-February 14,1969. Pavel Belyayev,Lev Dyomin. First visit to Zarya 1.
Apollo 10. Needle / Haystack. February 28-March 13,1969. Deke Slayton,Al Worden,Fred Haise. Full-up LM test / Skylab visit.
Apollo 11. Charlie Brown / Snoopy. May 18-26,1969. Gus Grissom,Roger Chaffee,Dick Gordon. LM test in lunar orbit.
Gemini 18. Pilgrim. June 1-August 8,1969. Gordo Cooper,Lachlan Macleay,Michael Duke. First handover in space accomplished at end of mission.
Soyuz 8. Ruby. June 14-July 10,1969. Vladimir Komarov,Alexei Sorokin. Second visit to Zarya 1.
Apollo 12. Columbia / Discovery. July 16-25,1969. John Young,Alan Bean,Ken Mattingly. First manned lunar landing. Young and Bean spent 32 hours on the Sea of Tranquillity and retrieved parts of the Surveyor 5 lunar probe.
Gemini 19. Alpha. August 2-October 27,1969. Ed White,Charlie Duke,Owen Garriott. Continued the Skylab endurance record.
Soyuz 9. Snowstorm. September 16-October 7,1969. Anatoli Filipchenko,Vitali Sevastyanov. Long-duration solo Soyuz mission.
Gemini 20. Beta. October 23,1969-February 18,1970. Jim McDivitt,Gerry Carr,Don Elston. Set a new space endurance record.
Apollo 13. Falcon / Eagle. November 14-24,1969. Alan Shepard,Buzz Aldrin,Bruce McCandless. Repeat of Apollo 12,but with the Surveyor 3 probe on the Ocean of Storms.
Soyuz 10. Ural. December 21,1969-March 14,1970. Vasili Lazarev,Georgi Grechko,Alexei Yeliseyev. Third visit to Zarya 1.
Gemini 21. Gamma. February 10-May 28,1970. Frank Borman,Jack Swigert,Ed Gibson. Much scientific work was accomplished on Skylab.
Apollo 14. Auriga / Aquarius. March 12-21,1970. Neil Armstrong,Elliott See,Stuart Roosa. Armstrong and See spent 2 days exploring the Fra Mauro Highlands. First use of the Mobile Equipment Transporter.
Gemini 22. Delta. May 22-September 8,1970. Pete Conrad,Al Worden,Don Holmquest. Last Gemini transport to Skylab before Apollo transports resumed.
Apollo 15. Endurance. May 31-June 17,1970. Charles Bassett,Ron Evans,Don Wilhelms. Lunar orbital I-class mission. Often considered a precursor to the Moonlab station of the 1980s and Gateway station of the 1990s to present.
Soyuz 11. Hawk. July 7-15,1970. Valery Bykovsky,Yuri Ponomarev,Boris Yegorov. Soviet version of Gemini 14. Reached apogee of 78,000 miles. First Soviet manned splashdown.
Skylab 2. Unity. August 31-December 16,1970. Deke Slayton,Ed White,Gene Boudette. Began the era of Apollo station transport.
Apollo 16. Altair / Antares. October 21-November 3,1970. Jim Lovell,Ed McGill,Joe Engle. First J mission,landed in Censorinus Crater.
Soyuz 12. Zenith. October 23-30,1970. Alexei Gubarev,Valery Voloshin. First Soyuz Kontakt mission,rendezvoused with Kosmos 419 (passive Soyuz) in lunar rendezvous simulation. Docking was cancelled due to low propellant levels on the Kosmos.
ART-1. November 17-December 21,1970. Unmanned flight test of the Apollo Resupply Transport Vehicle.
Skylab 3. Cosmos. December 10,1970-March 25,1971. Pete Conrad,Paul Weitz,Story Musgrave. Second Apollo expedition to Skylab.
Apollo 17. Camelot / Little Dipper. January 31-February 12,1971. Dave Scott,Addison Carmichael,Jack Lousma,Josie Selwyn (stowaway). First use of the lunar rover. Landed at Hyginus Rille. First space stowaway.
Gemini 23. American Eagle. February 26-April 2,1971. Lachlan Macleay,Francis Neubeck,Tom Muggs. First MOL mission.
Skylab 4. Galileo. March 17-July 31,1971. Tom Stafford,Ken Mattingly,Gerard O’Neill. Third Apollo expedition to Skylab.
Zarya 2. April 19,1971-April 28,1973. Second Soviet space station.
Soyuz 13. Kestrel. April 23-June 30,1971. Sergei Khrushchev,Georgi Grechko,Valeri Yazdovsky. First visit to Zarya 2.
Apollo 18. Yankee Clipper / Intrepid. April 28-May 12,1971. Pete Conrad,Ed Givens,Bill Thornton. Landed in the Marius Hills.
ART-2. May 14-August 7,1971. First operational ART mission.
Soyuz 14. Antaeus. June 12-24,1971. Georgi Shonin,Aleksandr Skvortsov,Vladimir Fartushny. Second Soyuz scientific mission.
Skylab 5. Kepler. July 22-November 16,1971. Charles Bassett,Henry Hartsfield,Bob Parker. Set new space endurance record. Four EVAs conducted.
Apollo 19. Kitty Hawk / Beagle. July 26-August 11,1971. Gus Grissom,Harrison Schmitt,Don Elston. Landed at Flamsteed Ring. Crew visited Surveyor 1.
Soyuz 15. Danube. August 4-October 25,1971. Gennady Sarafanov,Alexei Leonov,Ordinard Kolomiytsev. Second visit to Zarya 2. First EVA from a Zarya station.
Apollo 20. Odyssey / Adventure. September 3-20,1971. Al Bean,Rusty Schweickart,Joe Kerwin. Landed in the Mare Fecunditatis. First use of the Extended Lunar Module (ELM), which would become (with modifications) the standard LM for the next decade and more.
Apollo 21. Gaia. September 22-October 11,1971. Roger Chaffee,Jack Swigert,Gordon Swann. First Apollo Applications mission.
Gemini 24. Verdun. October 15-November 20,1971. Al Crews,Bob Lawrence,Edward Aldridge. Second MOL mission. First minority in space.
Soyuz 16. Diamond. November 4-14,1971. Pavel Belyayev,Viktor Patsayev. Second Soyuz Kontakt mission. Rendezvoused with Kosmos 557 (unmanned LK module). Patsayev spacewalked over to LK to check out its systems.
Skylab 6. Pathfinder. November 8,1971-February 22,1972. Neil Armstrong,Bill Pogue,Karl Henize. Fifth Apollo expedition to Skylab.
ART-3. December 1,1971-March 14,1972. Second operational ART mission,and first to refuel Skylab.
Selenos 1. Ruby. January 19-28,1972. Vladimir Komarov,Pyotr Klimuk. First Soviet manned lunar flyby.
Apollo 22. Windjammer / Polaris. February 12-27,1972. Dick Gordon,Charlie Duke,Joe Allen. Landed in the Apollonius Highlands.
Skylab 7. Missouri. February 15-July 11,1972. Mike Collins,Curt Michel,Fred Haise. Set a new space endurance record.
ART-4. March 17-May 3,1972.
Soyuz 17. Ural. March 25-July 4,1972. Vasily Lazarev,Oleg Makarov,Evgeny Riabchikov. First journalist in space. Riabchikov conducted several TV broadcasts from Zarya 2.
Apollo 23. Orion / Rigel. April 16-May 1,1972. John Young,Ed McGill,Garrett Breedlove. Landed in Descartes Highlands. First use of the Lunar Flyer Unit.
Gemini 25. Observer. April 27-May 22,1972. Richard Lawyer,Milton Thompson,Max Henry. Third MOL mission,and first civilian MOL mission. Mission was terminated three days early owing to a faulty fuel cell on the Gemini.
ART-5. May 1-August 6,1972.
Skylab 8. California. July 4-October 27,1972. Roger Chaffee,Jim Irwin,Melvin Mays. Seventh Apollo expedition to Skylab. Skylab’s orbit was reboosted during this mission.
Apollo 24. Gaia. July 18-30,1972. Lachlan Macleay,Leon Silver. Repeat of Apollo 21. First reuse of a manned spacecraft.
Selenos 2. Neva. August 10-19,1972. Yevgeni Khrunov,Georgi Dobrovolsky. Originally planned as a repeat of Selenos 1,but converted at last minute and as such became first Soviet manned lunar orbiter.
Apollo 25. Carina / Canopus. August 11-27,1972. Gerry Carr,Don Lind,Edgar Mitchell. Landed in Tycho Crater and retrieved parts from Surveyor 7. Lind used second LFU to inspect the lava lakes of Tycho.
ART-6. August 21-October 16,1972.
Soyuz 18. Falcon. August 23-September 9,1972. Andrian Nikolayev,Viktor Patsayev. Final mission to Zarya 2.
Apollo 26. Nereus. September 16-27,1972. John Finley,Bob Crippen,Owen Garriott. Third Apollo Applications mission. The crew conducted a detailed X-ray survey of the sky.
Skylab 9. Washington. October 20,1972-March 4,1973. Dick Gordon,Vance Brand,Ed McGill (up) / Joe Allen (down). Set a space endurance record,featured first CSM exchange. Considered a stepping stone on the road to the Athena missions.
ART-7. November 10,1972-January 16,1973.
Zarya 3. November 23,1972-September 3,1975. Third Soviet space station.
Soyuz 19. Argon. December 2,1972-January 26,1973. Georgi Beregovoi,Vitaly Sevastyanov. First in-space repair mission. Freed Zarya’s stuck solar panel.
Apollo 27. Draco / Thuban. December 6-22,1972. Frank Borman,Don Wilhelms,Phil Chapman. Landed in Petavius Crater.
Skylab 10. Jefferson. January 17-28,1973. Deke Slayton,Joe Allen (up) / Ed McGill (down). First CSM exchange. Allen replaced McGill due to the latter’s wife’s advanced stage of pregnancy.
ART-8. January 31-March 12,1973.
Apollo 28. Majestic / Moondancer. February 7-22,1973. Ed White,Leon Silver,Bill Pogue. Landed in Erastothenes Crater. White and Silver conducted extensive geological survey.
Skylab 11. New York. February 24-July 12,1973. Dave Scott,Don Peterson,Tony Llewellyn. Continued the Skylab endurance record.
Soyuz 20. Zenith. March 1-May 29,1973. Alexei Gubarev,Yuri Malyshev.Valeri Kubasov. Second mission to Zarya 3.
ART-9. March 18-July 5,1973.
Selenos 3. Pilgrim. April 3-12,1973. Alexei Leonov,Lev Dyomin. Repeat of Soyuz 16 in high Earth orbit. Soviet equivalent of Apollo 6 and 10.
Apollo 29. Owl / Pussycat. April 24-May 10,1973. Jack Lousma,Garrett Breedlove,Story Musgrave. First manned lunar landing on lunar far side (Gagarin Crater).
Starlab 2. Nike. May 13-July 16,1973. Mike Collins,Max Henry,Gerard O’Neill. First Starlab crew,first manned launch of Saturn II. Opened up Starlab for operations.
Starlab. May 14,1973-December 22,2006. Second American space station. First modular space station,and one of the mainstays of NASA.
Soyuz 21. Ural. May 20-31,1973. Vasily Lazarev,Valery Ryumin,Rudolf Gulyayev. Third Soyuz scientific mission. Achieved altitude of 17,000 miles using reboost from upper stage.
Soyuz 22. Radon. May 25-September 22,1973. Vyacheslav Zudov,Pyotr Kolodin,Yuri Ponomarev. Third mission to Zarya 3. First Soviet space handover.
Apollo 30. June 7,1973. Unmanned suborbital test of Block III Command Module.
Progress 1. June 10-July 3,1973. First Progress mission. Docked to and refueled Zarya 3.
Skylab 12. Maine. July 6-November 25,1973. Bill Anders,Ed Givens. First Skylab ‘caretaker’ crew.
ART-10. July 7-October 27,1973.
Selenos 4. Terek. July 8-18,1973. Viktor Gorbatko,Grigori Fomanin. Soviet equivalent of Apollo 11.
ART-11. July 12-September 5,1973. First ART launched to Starlab.
Apollo 31. Hyreus. July 17-August 4,1973. Ron Evans,Charlton Daniel,Ed Gibson. Fourth Apollo Applications mission. Launched into 62 degree orbit for Earth photography.
Starlab 3. Oberth. July 28-October 14,1973. Al Worden,Stuart Roosa,Frank Accette. Began the permanent occupation of Starlab.
Gemini 26. Valley Forge. July 31-September 8,1973. Karol Bobko,Michael Adams,Jim Taylor. Fourth MOL mission,and last to use Gemini. Last Gemini mission.
Apollo 32. Leo / Regulus. August 5-21,1973. Eugene Cernan,Walt Cunningham,Laura Woodsworth. First American woman in space. Landed in Clavius Crater.
Apollo 33. Retriever. August 26-September 1,1973. Russell Schweickart,Gordo Fullerton,Ed Stone. Retrieved and repaired OSO-C as a test of space repair capabilities.
SA-200D. September 9,1973. Delivered the Universal Docking Module to Starlab,where it arrived on September 12.
Soyuz 23. Amber. September 17-December 21,1973. Georgi Dobrovolski,Nikolai Rukavishnikov,Vitaly Zholobov. Fourth mission to Zarya 3. The station was temporarily unmanned with the crew’s departure.
Progress 2. September 29-October 18,1973. Delivered the Spektr space telescope for mounting on the exterior of Zarya 3.
Starlab 4. Freedom. October 4,1973-February 8,1974. Fred Haise,Bruce McCandless,Tony England. Third Starlab expedition.
ART-12. October 9-November 28,1973.
Selenos 5. Hope / Desire. October 30-November 11,1973. Boris Volynov,Leonid Kizim. First Soviet manned lunar landing. Landed in Sinus Medii. Volynov spent 19 hours on the lunar surface.
Skylab 13. Pride of Downey. November 10,1973-May 25,1974. Addison Carmichael,Robert Overmyer,Melvin Mays. Skylab Endurance Expedition. Last permanent Skylab crew/second Skylab caretaker crew. Observed Comet Kohoutek in joint observations with Starlab.
ART-13. November 21-December 15,1973. Last ART to Skylab.
Soyuz 24. Blizzard. December 1-12,1973. Anatoli Filipchenko,Valentin Lebedev. ASTP test mission.
Apollo 34. Cygnus / Deneb. December 3-19,1973. Paul Weitz,Donald Beattie,Hannah Oliver. Landed in Langrenus Crater. Sampling of central peak conducted.
Apollo 35. Bunker Hill. December 16-26,1973. Richard Lawyer,Kazimieras Zemeckis,Daryl Joseph. Fifth MOL mission,first to use Apollo hardware. First manned Saturn IC launch. First use of dual-launch MOL.
Starlab 5. Enterprise. February 1-June 28,1974. Gerry Carr,Charlie Duke,Emmett Benton. Received the first Starlab modules.
Progress 3. February 14-May 2,1974. Raised Zarya 3’s orbit prior to the arrival of Soyuz 25.
Apollo 36. Alioth. February 20-March 8,1974. Jack Lousma,Alma Baker. First Apollo Assembly mission. Delivered the Humboldt Research Module to Starlab.
Soyuz 25. Diamond. March 14-August 17,1974. Pavel Belyayev,Aleksandr Skvortsov,Yuri Karasyov. Fifth and final Zarya 3 expedition.
Selenos 6. Kestrel / Pioneer. March 30-April 11,1974. Sergei Khrushchev,Oleg Makarov,Pyotr Kolodin. Second Selenos landing. Khrushchev and Makarov spent 2 days exploring in Argelander Crater.
Apollo 37. Texas / Austin. April 1-18,1974. Buzz Aldrin,Jeannie West,Richard Truly. First woman on the Moon. Landed at Hadley Rille. Using an LFU,West was able to take samples from the far side of the rille.
Soyuz 26. Dnepr. April 4-18,1974. Leonid Popov,Nikolai Fefelov,Semyon Ivchenko. Fourth Soyuz scientific mission.
Progress 4. April 7-July 6,1974.
Apollo 38. April 12,1974. Orbital repeat of Apollo 30.
Apollo 39. Pegasus. April 29-May 5,1974. Karol Bobko,Ed McGill,Michael Conlig. Rendezvoused with the Pegasus 3 satellite. Conlig retrieved solar cells for return to Earth.
Apollo 40. Flyer. May 22-June 19,1974. Neil Armstrong,Donald Beattie. Second I-class mission. First manned mission in lunar polar orbit.
IRIV-1. July 1-August 25,1974. This Titan-launched docking module served as a berthing port for the ASTP-1 mission.
Soyuz 27. Antaeus. July 2-18,1974. Georgi Shonin,Valery Illarionov,Bela Karolyi. Soviet half of Apollo-Soyuz.
Apollo-Soyuz. Friendship. July 3-26,1974. John Young,Joe Engle,April Sullivan. American half of Apollo-Soyuz. Docked with Soyuz 27 on July 5. 6 days of joint experiments were conducted. Afterwards,the crew spent another few days on Skylab.
Selenos 7. Eridanus / Capella. August 20-September 2,1974. Lev Vorobyov,Valeri Yazdovsky,Anatoly Berezovoi. During the third Soviet lunar landing,Vorobyov and Yazdovsky spent 3 days in the northern Mare Tranquilitatis.
Soyuz T-1. October 31-November 3,1974. Short unmanned test of Soyuz T.
Skylab 14. Perseus. November 17,1974-March 2,1975. Dick Gordon,Bill Lenoir. Second Skylab caretaker crew.
Progress 5. December 6,1974-January 21,1975. Shifted Zarya 3’s orbit to act as a backup/safe haven in case of Zarya 4’s launch failing.
Selenos 8. Zenith / Luna. December 18-27,1974. Alexei Gubarev,Grigori Korzun,Leon Vinogradov. Gubarev and Korzun landed at the Davy Rille and took samples proving recent local volcanism. The trans-Earth injection was performed earlier than normal owing to a fuel leak in the LOK.
Soyuz T-2. Danube. February 20-27,1975. Gennady Sarafanov,Lev Dyomin,Konstantin Feoktistov. Manned repeat of Soyuz T-1.
Selenos 9. Ural / Yenisei. April 12-22,1975. Vasily Lazarev,Eduard Stepanov,Mikhail Sologub. Lazarev and Stepanov landed near the Luna 14 probe in the Mare Crisium and retrieved parts for return to Earth.
Skylab 15. Chicago Belle. June 8-14,1975. Ken Mattingly,Jeannie West. Inspected Skylab (between caretaker crews at the time) and returned pieces to Earth for study.
Apollo -. Canada / Mexico. March 6-24,1976. Dave Scott,Story Musgrave,Roxanne Bojarski. Revisited Apollo 23 landing site at Descartes. Due to sickness,Bojarski replaced Scott for lunar descent,stay,and ascent.
Soyuz -. Caucasus. June 21-July 19,1976. Pyotr Klimuk,Leon Vinogradov,Kazimieras Zemeckis. Docked to Skylab as part of the Soyuz-Skylab mission. Zemeckis was first American to launch and return on a Soviet spacecraft.
Skylab 17. Franklin. June 22-September 8,1976. Mike Collins,Jacqui Benton,Phil Chapman. Fourth and final Skylab caretaker crew. American half of Soyuz-Skylab. Final manned mission to Skylab.
Apollo -. Mankind. June 25-July 7,1976. Bob Crippen,Max Henry,April Sullivan,Susy Feldman. The “Destination Mankind” mission was the first manned mission into geosynchronous orbit,and it was also the first manned spaceflight with four crew members. The crew utilized a CSM-derived Payload Module to conduct experiments utilizing the Apollo Geosynchronous Science Experiments Package (AGSEP). Henry and Feldman performed two EVAs.
TTRS-1 (Tracking and Telemetry Relay Satellite) was launched on a Saturn III rocket on July 26,1977 to provide a preliminary TTRS capability for the Shuttle Orbital Test Mission program.
SLS-0. Pathfinder. January 28-29,1978. First Space Shuttle mission. Unmanned flight test of Shuttle systems.
SLS-1. Columbia. April 6-9,1978. Neil Armstrong,Mike Coats,Elizabeth Taylor. First manned Space Shuttle mission. Test of Shuttle systems and mission profile. Launched into same orbit as Starlab,and the crews contacted each other.
SLS-2. Columbia. July 1-7,1978. John Young,Dan Brandenstein,Danielle Goldwater. Second Space Shuttle mission. Goldwater tested robotic arm. Earth observations were made from the payload bay.
SLS-3. Columbia. September 14-24,1978. Charlton Daniel,Rick Hauck,Bill Lenoir,Terry Hart. Rendezvoused with Starlab. Docking aborted due to communications issues.
SLS-4. Columbia. November 10-18,1978. Deke Slayton,Bruce McCandless,Ed Givens,Ginger Lopez. Successfully docked to Starlab. After undocking,Givens and Lopez conducted first EVA from Shuttle.
SLS-5. Enterprise. January 27-February 3,1979. Bob Crippen,Dick Scobee,Joe Kerwin,Jeannie West. First flight of Enterprise. First satellite deployment from Shuttle (LDEF-1).
SLS-6. Columbia. March 15-22,1979. Fred Haise,Roland McWhorter,Owen Garriott,April Sullivan. Last test flight of the Shuttle. Garriott and Sullivan checked out instrumentation and techniques during extended spacewalk.
SLS-7. Enterprise. April 16-23,1979. Pete Conrad,Fred Gregory,Edgar Mitchell,Mary Patton,George Simon. First operational Shuttle mission deployed the Solar Maximum Mission satellite and featured the first payload specialist.
SLS-8. Columbia. June 4-9,1979. Addison Carmichael,Vince Blake,Don Holmquest,Roxanne Bojarski,Bill Thornton. Rendezvoused with Starlab,but docking aborted due to technical issues forcing early return. First Shuttle mission to land at White Sands.
SLS-9. Challenger. July 5-11,1979. Jack Swigert,Brewster Shaw,Jacqui Benton,Frank Accette,Norman Thagard,Thomas Elroy,Farrah Fawcett. First flight of Challenger. Fawcett was first space tourist. Deployed the TTRS-2 and SBS-1 satellites. First Shuttle mission to land on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway.
SLS-10. Enterprise. August 27-September 6,1979. Henry Hartsfield,Don Williams,Bob Lawrence,Story Musgrave,Laura Bell,Amber Langlois. First night launch of Shuttle (first night landing wasn’t until SLS-12). Carried out experiments of opportunity in zero-g. First Shuttle mission extension,by one day,granted on September 2.
SLS-11. Columbia. September 23-30,1979. Ken Mattingly,George Webb,Patty Doyle,Susy Feldman,John Fabian,Rakesh Sharma. Deployed the Anik B2 and Insat 1A satellites. Sharma was first Indian in space.
SLS-12. Challenger. October 16-22,1979. Joe Engle,Dick Scobee,Marina van de Graaff,Charlie Duke,Michael Lampton. Deployed the GOES-4 weather satellite (renamed Ceres 4 on reaching its geostationary position) and an EVA was performed by Lampton and van de Graaff to test refueling methods in space. Both launch and landing were at night. Mission recalled 1 day early so Lampton could be with his dying father.
SLS-13. Enterprise. November 8-19,1979. Michael Coats,Bob Springer,George Franklin,Andrea Wyler (up) / Ed Gibson (down),David Vidrine,Sandra Mueller. Docked with Starlab:Wyler replaced Gibson as partial crew exchange test. After undocking the Capsat technology demonstrator payload was deployed and Vidrine and Mueller performed a cooperative EVA to retrieve it.
SLS-14. Columbia. December 12-22,1979. Garrett Breedlove,Ron McNair,Michael Boudreaux,Shannon Lucid,Joe Allen,Bonnie Kultgen,Sigmund Jahn. First Spacelab research mission. Columbia flew in 57 degree inclination orbit. Kultgen was first Canadian in space.
SLS-15. Enterprise. January 4-9,1980. Jack Lousma,Jon McBride,Caroline St.Leger,Emmett Benton,Steve Hawley,Josephine Cimino. Deployed the TTRS-3 and Westar 4 satellites. Planned EVA by Benton and Cimino cancelled after Benton developed space sickness.
SLS-16. Challenger. January 24-February 2,1980. Don Peterson,Roland McWhorter,Mike Mullane,Jaime Sommers,Guion Bluford,Anna Tingle,Khosrow Darvish. Deployed the Zohreh 1 and SBS-2 satellites. An Islamophobic terrorist group planted a bomb in the OMS system which was detected and extracted,detonating near the Shuttle and damaging it slightly.
SLS-17. Columbia. February 14-21,1980. Dave Scott,Jim Irwin,Annie Hughes,Terry Hart,Isabella Carey,Joe Duvall,Gary Wells. Retrieved LDEF-1 and deployed the Materials Exposure Solar Array. Duvall was a LaRC employee tasked with examining LDEF and Wells was in charge of the MESA.
SLS-18. Enterprise. March 1-6,1980. Vance Brand,Bryan O’Connor,Dave Leestma,Hannah Oliver,Danielle Goldwater. First DoD Shuttle mission. Deployed the USA-6 satellite,probably an SDS relay satellite.
SLS-19. Discovery. March 22-30,1980. Karol Bobko,Ginger Lopez,Bob Parker,Steve Nagel,John Ferris,Vicky Browning,Valery Polyakov. First flight of Discovery. First cosmonaut on a Space Shuttle. First time a woman piloted the Space Shuttle. Docked to Skylab on March 23,and spent 4 days there.
SLS-20. Challenger. April 12-18,1980. Gordo Fullerton,John Creighton,Alicia Ehrhardt,Kathy Sullivan,Byron Lichtenberg,Wayne Kendall,Marcus Raymond. The Spacelab 2 payload was a test of the Spacelab pallet system,including an Earth viewing telescope derivative of the EREP packages on Skylab and Starlab. Raymond,a fellow of Johns Hopkins University,oversaw the deployment of Gravity Probe A.
SLS-21. Enterprise. April 29-May 6,1980. Rick Hauck,Dylan McKay,Gerard O’Neill,Alma Baker. The crew oversaw deployment of the Westar 5 and 6 satellites.
SLS-22. Columbia. May 14-16,1980. Dan Brandenstein,Vince Blake,John Fabian,Mary Patton. Second DoD Shuttle mission. Decommissioned the Almaz 5 reconnaissance station and returned an unidentified payload to Earth.
SLS-23. Challenger. May 25-June 7,1980. Richard Truly,Hoot Gibson,Don Lind,Ray Jackson,Laura Woodsworth,Thor Dyson. In cooperation with Agena tugs,this mission performed a global environmental survey in response to the Mount St Helens eruption on May 18.
SLS-24. Discovery. June 5-14,1980. John Young,Michael Elmsford,Katherine Daues,Bill Lenoir,Sally Ride,Yuri Isaulov. Attached the Soyuz/Progress Docking Module to Starlab to facilitate international space operations. This was the first time two Shuttles were in space simultaneously.
SLS-25. Enterprise. June 29-July 7,1980. Paul Weitz,Bill Blythe,Tim Wakefield,Kathleen Queiser,Emily Cardman,Franco Malerba,Martin Caidin. Spacelab 3 was the first operational Spacelab mission. Caidin was the first American journalist in space. Malerba was the first Italian in space.
SLS-26. Columbia. July 20-25,1980. Al Worden,Roy Bridges,James Bagian,Richard Terrile,Bill Fisher,Sophie Roper,Melvin Mays. Deployed the NATO-3 satellite from the first ACC module and Leasat 1 from the payload bay.
SLS-27. Challenger. August 5-12,1980. Max Henry,Loren Shriver,Thomas Elroy,Jerry Ross,Frank Casserino,Pamela O’Neill. Third Shuttle DoD mission. Undertook experiments with DoD-80 satellite package and free-flying PDP.
SLS-28. Discovery. August 15-22,1980. Roland McWhorter,Skip Anderson,Tony Llewellyn,Judith Resnik,Sylvia DeJong,Ed Fermoyle. The crew oversaw the deployment of the MARECS-B communications satellite,for which Fermoyle was a payload specialist,as well as the Earth Radiation Budget Observatory.
SLS-29. Enterprise. September 2-15,1980. Neil Armstrong,Bob Springer,Mary Helen Johnston,Louise Kirkbride,Carolyn Griner,Laura Bell,Lodewijk van den Berg. The crew deployed the GOES-5 (renamed Ceres 5 on reaching its operational position) and Dynamics Explorers satellites. First flight of the SPARTAN satellite. Longest Shuttle mission to date. van den Berg was the first Dutchman in space.
SLS-30. Columbia. September 19-30,1980. Stuart Roosa,Fred Gregory,Bill Thornton,Rhea Seddon,Lucia Garcia-Iniguez,Ed McGill,Walter Cronkite. This mission saw the deployment of the Synchronous Observations Satellite. Landed at White Sands due to inclement weather at KSC and Edwards.
SLS-31. Discovery. October 6-15,1980. Bill Pogue,Don Williams,Robert Golden,April Sullivan,Elizabeth Caine,Pinky Nelson,Lawton Chiles. Deployed the Intelsat 504 and ASC-1 satellites. The first Space Tug demonstration retrieved the Telstar satellite for return to Earth and display in the Smithsonian. Chiles was the first politician in space.
SLS-32. Enterprise. October 23-November 5,1980. Bruce McCandless,Charles Parlier,David Leestma,Holly Hills,Lindsay Goldman,Byron Lichtenberg,James Merrill. Spacelab 4,the first operational Spacelab mission,was a life sciences mission. Merrill was the first veterinarian in space.
SLS-33. Pathfinder. October 28-31,1980. The first,unmanned Space Shuttle launch from Vandenberg AFB.
SLS-34. Challenger. November 4-11,1980. Gordo Fullerton,Hoot Gibson,Kerry Killebrew,Norman Thagard,Josephine Cimino,Vince Hartman. The fourth DoD Shuttle mission utilized the DAMON reconnaissance payload as a test for future space-based reconnaissance missions.
SLS-35. Discovery. November 20-December 3,1980. Jack Swigert,Charles Bolden,Shannon Lucid,Owen Garriott,Amber Langlois,Pete McAllister. This was a test flight of the 2MS satellite bus.
SLS-36. Columbia. December 10-22,1980. Buzz Aldrin,Chris Martin,Bob Lawrence,Elizabeth Thomas,Michael Boudreaux,Bonnie Dunbar,Valentin Lebedev. This mission,after deploying the Intelsat 502 satellite,spent five days in a co-inclined orbit with the Zarya 4 space station in order to evaluate mission performance for planned joint Shuttle-Zarya 5 missions. The crew inspected the abandoned station from afar,but per Soviet request they did not attempt to rendezvous or dock.
SLS-37. Atlantis. December 25,1980-January 4,1981. Jack Lousma,Lydia Strand,Bonnie Kultgen,Mike Mullane,Anna Fisher,Tracey Sauerland,George Franklin. This mission,the first of Atlantis,saw the deployment of the TTRS-4 and SBS-3 satellites,various payload bay experiments,and the first time a Space Shuttle stayed in space over the New Year.
SLS-38. Enterprise. January 8-15,1981. Karol Bobko,John Creighton,Jeannie West,Thor Dyson,Vicky Browning,Roy Wilkins. Deployed the Intelsat 503 and Astrolink 1A satellites.
SLS-39. Challenger. January 13-22,1981. Charlton Daniel,Bill Anders,Story Musgrave,Liz Glover,Jaime Sommers. Retrieved Spider’s ascent stage from LEO prior to what would’ve been an uncontrolled reentry.