Spacecraft launched in 1966

lander in the Soviet Union's Luna programme

spacecraft in the Soviet Union's Luna programme

sixth crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program

US unmanned lunar lander

first American robotic spacecraft to orbit the Moon

1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program

Soviet lunar lander

1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini

Soviet lunar orbiter

crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program

failed lunar lander launched in 1966

Soviet lunar orbiter

ninth crewed spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini

space probe

AS-203 (also known as SA-203 or Apollo 3) was an uncrewed flight of the Saturn IB rocket on July 5, 1966. It carried no command and service module, as its purpose was to verify the design of the S-IVB rocket stage restart capability that would later be used in the Apollo program to boost astronauts from Earth orbit to a trajectory towards the Moon. It achieved its objectives, but the S-IVB was inadvertently destroyed after four orbits during a differential pressure test that exceeded the design limits.

uncrewed flight of the Soyuz programme

Artificial Russian satellite

Soviet spacecraft

Soviet satellite model

American scientific satellite from Explorer programme, forth in the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform series

Soviet military satellite

Soviet satellite

Soviet satellite

Soviet satellite

Soviet satellite

Soviet satellite

former NASA research satellite

Soviet satellite

PAGEOS (PAssive Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite) was a balloon satellite which was launched by NASA in June 1966. It was the first satellite specifically launched for use in geodetic surveying, or measuring the shape of the earth, by serving as a reflective and photographic tracking target. At the time, it improved on terrestrial triangulations of the globe by about an order of magnitude. The satellite, which carried no instrumentation, broke up between 1975 and 1976. One of the largest fragments of the satellite finally deorbited in 2016.

ATS-1 (Applications Technology Satellite 1), also designated ATS-B or Advanced Tech. Sat. 1, was an experimental geostationary satellite, launched in 1966, and part of the Applications Technology Satellites Program. Though intended as a communications satellite rather than as a weather satellite, it carried the Spin Scan Cloud Camera developed by Verner E. Suomi and Robert Parent at the University of Wisconsin.

soviet weather satellite

satellite

ESSA-1 (or OT-3) was a spin-stabilized operational meteorological satellite. Its name was derived from that of its oversight agency, the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA).

soviet reconnaissance satellite (Zenit 2-36)

soviet first generation reconnaissance satellite

Soviet reconnaissance satellite

soviet reconnaissance satellite (Zenit 2-33)

soviet reconnaissance satellite

soviet reconnaissance satellite

soviet reconnaissance satellite (Zenit 2-35)

Communications satellite

Soviet optical film-return reconnaissance satellite

Soviet reconnaissance satellite

Orbiting Vehicle 1-8 (also known as OV1-8, OV1-8P,PasComSat, and Gridsphere), launched 14 July 1966, was the seventh satellite launched (fourth successfully) in the OV1 series of the United States Air Force's Orbiting Vehicle program. OV1-8 was designed to test the passive communications utility of an aluminum grid sphere versus a balloon satellite (e.g. NASA's Project Echo).

ESSA-2 (or OT-2) was a spin-stabilized operational meteorological satellite. Its name was derived from that of its oversight agency, the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA).

ESSA 3 (or TOS-A) was a spin-stabilized operational meteorological satellite. Its name was derived from that of its oversight agency, the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA).

U.S. Gravity Gradient Satellite