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1964 in spaceflight

Date (UTC)	Spacecraft	Event	Remarks
2 February	Ranger 6	Lunar impact	Impacted Mare Tranquillitatis at 09:24:32, failed to return images
14 July	Zond 1	Flyby of Venus	Closest approach: , communications system failed before flyby
31 July	Ranger 7	Lunar impact	Impacted Mare Nubium at 13:25:48, returned 4,308 images

Country	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
	36	29	7	0
	64	53	8	3

Rocket	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
Atlas LV-3A Agena-B	3	3	0	0
Atlas LV-3A Agena-D	9	8	1	0
Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D	4	3	1	0	Maiden flight
Atlas LV-3C Centaur-C	2	0	1	1	Maiden flight
Delta B	2	1	1	0	Retired
Delta C	2	1	0	1
Delta D	1	1	0	0	Maiden flight
Kosmos-1 63S3	2	1	1	0	Maiden flight
Kosmos-2I 63S1	8	7	1	0
Molniya 8K78	3	2	1	0
Molniya-M 8K78M	5	1	4	0	Maiden flight
Polyot 11A59	1	1	0	0	Retired
Saturn I	3	3	0	0	First orbital launch
Scout X-3	1	1	0	0	Retired
Scout X-4	7	6	1	0
Thor DSV-2A Ablestar	3	2	1	0
Thor SLV-2 Agena-B	2	1	0	1
Thor SLV-2 Agena-D	2	2	0	0
Thrust Augmented Thor SLV-2A Agena-D	20	19	1	0
Titan II GLV	1	1	0	0	Maiden flight
Titan IIIA	2	1	1	0	Maiden flight
Voskhod 11A57	5	5	0	0
Vostok-K 8K72K	2	2	0	0	Retired
Vostok-2 8A92	9	9	0	0
Vostok-2M 8A92M	1	1	0	0	Maiden flight

Orbital regime	Launches	Achieved	Not Achieved	Accidentally Achieved	Remarks
Low Earth	77	68	8	2
Medium Earth	4	3	1	0
High Earth	11	8	3	0	Including Highly elliptical orbits
Geosynchronous/transfer	2	1	1	0
Heliocentric	6	4	2	0

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