This is a list of
spaceflight
Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly spacecraft into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such as satellites in or ...
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
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Suborbital launch summary
By country
By rocket
See also
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Timeline of spaceflight
This is the timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Owing to its large size, the timeline is split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all ...
References
Footnotes
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1956 in spaceflight
Spaceflight by year