1956 in spaceflight explained

Year:	1956
Maidens:	Aerobee AJ10-34 Nike-Cajun Terrapin Jupiter-C R-1UK R-5RD R-5R
Retired:	Aerobee XASR-SC-1 Deacon rockoon Nike-Nike-T40-T55 R-1E R-1UK R-5RD R-5R

Programme:	Timeline of spaceflight
Previous Mission:	1955
Next Mission:	1957

This is a list of spaceflight related events which occurred in 1956.

• Crewed orbital spaceflight studied
• First nuclear warhead launched on a missile
• Atlas, Titan, Redstone programs going strong
• China begins missile development
• The race to launch a satellite heats up
• Japan's first substantial sounding rocket launched, the Kappa-1, but nation wouldn't go to space until the Kappa-8 in 1960
• First spaceflight launches from Canadian facility at Churchill

Launches

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Suborbital launch summary

By country

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Launches	scope=col	Successes	scope=col	Failures	scope=col	Partial failures	scope=col	Unknown
scope=row style="background:#484785;"			76	63	12	0	1
scope=row style="background:brown;"			69	67	2	0	0

By rocket

Rocket! scope=col

Country	scope=col	Launches	scope=col	Successes	scope=col	Failures	scope=col	Partial failures	scope=col	Unknown	scope=col	Remarks
scope=row	Viking (second model)		1	1	0	0	0
scope=row	Aerobee RTV-N-10		1	0	1	0	0
scope=row	Aerobee RTV-N-10c		1	1	0	0	0
scope=row	Aerobee Hi (NRL)		8	4	3	0	1
scope=row	Aerobee XASR-SC-1		2	2	0	0	0	Retired
scope=row	Aerobee RTV-A-1a		5	4	1	0	0
scope=row	Aerobee Hi (USAF)		2	1	1	0	0
scope=row	Aerobee AJ10-34		9	9	0	0	0	Maiden flight
scope=row	Deacon rockoon (NRL)		10	8	2	0	0	Retired
scope=row	Nike-Nike-T40-T55		1	1	0	0	0	Retired
scope=row	Nike-Cajun		11	11	0	0	0	Maiden flight
scope=row	Terrapin		2	1	1	0	0	Maiden flight
scope=row	X-17		20	17	3	0	0
scope=row	HJ-Nike		2	2	0	0	0
scope=row	Jupiter-C		1	1	0	0	0	Maiden flight
scope=row	R-1		17	15	2	0	0
scope=row	A-1		1	1	0	0	0
scope=row	R-1E		3	3	0	0	0	Retired
scope=row	R-1UK		10	10	0	0	0	Maiden flight, retired
scope=row	R-2		11	11	0	0	0
scope=row	R-5M		14	14	0	0	0
scope=row	R-5RD		10	10	0	0	0	Maiden flight, retired
scope=row	R-5R		3	3	0	0	0	Maiden flight, retired

See also

• Timeline of spaceflight

References

Footnotes