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Launches |colspan=8| January |- |colspan=8| February |- |colspan=8| March |- |colspan=8| April |- |colspan=8| May |- |colspan=8| June |- |colspan=8| July |- |colspan=8| August |- |colspan=8| September |- |colspan=8| October |- |colspan=8| November |- |colspan=8| December |- |} Deep Space Rendezvous | Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks | | 4 January | Luna 1 | Lunar flyby | Failed impactor, closest approach: | | 4 March | Pioneer 4 | Lunar flyby | Closest approach: | | 14 September | Luna 2 | Lunar impact | Landed in Mare Imbrium, first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon | | 6 October | Luna 3 | Lunar flyby | Circumlunar flight, returned 29 pictures, closest approach | Orbital launch summary By country | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial
failures | Remarks | | | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | | | | 19 | 8 | 9 | 2 | |
By rocket By orbit References Footnotes
bg: 1959 fr:1959 en astronautique lv:1959. gads kosmonautik ja:1959 ru: 1959 sk:Zoznam kozmick ch letov (1959) uk: 1959 zh:1959
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