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1965 in spaceflight

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:
15 July	Mariner 4	Flyby of Mars	Returned 21 images
20 July	Zond 3	Lunar flyby	Returned 25 images
6 August	Zond 4	Flyby of Mars	Communications system failed before flyby
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

Start Date/Time	Duration	End Time	Spacecraft	Crew	Remarks
18 March 08:34		08:47	Voskhod 2		First EVA in history.^[1] 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.^[2]
3 June 19:46	20 minutes	20:06	Gemini IV	Edward White	First US EVA.^[3] White also had difficulty returning to the Gemini spacecraft. Although very fit, the effort left White exhausted.^[4]

Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
1	1	0	0	First orbital launch
53	46	7	0
70	61	8	1

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

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

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