Spaceports With Achieved Launches of Humans
The following is a table of spaceports and launch complexes with a documented achieved launch of humans to space (more than 100 km (62 mi) altitude). Spaceports that have only achieved human sub-orbital flights are listed at the end. Otherwise the sorting order is spaceport by spaceport according to the time of the first human launch. All are under governmental operations, except for the last entry, the privately operated White Knight / SpaceShipOne.
| Spaceport | Launch
complex |
Launcher | Spacecraft | Flights | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baikonur Cosmodrome,
Kazakhstan |
Site 1 | Vostok (r) | Vostok 1–6 | 6 Orbital | 1961–1963 |
| Site 1 | Voskhod (r) | Voskhod 1–2 | 2 Orbital | 1964–1965 | |
| Site 1, 31 | Soyuz (r) | Soyuz 1–40 † | 37 Orbital | 1967–1981 | |
| Site 1, 31 | Soyuz (r) | Soyuz-T 2–15 | 14 Orbital | 1980–1986 | |
| Site 1 | Soyuz (r) | Soyuz-TM 2–34 | 33 Orbital | 1987–2002 | |
| Site 1 | Soyuz (r) | Soyuz-TMA 1–22 | 22 Orbital | 2002–2011 | |
| Site 1 | Soyuz (r) | Soyuz TMA-M 1–5 | 5 Orbital | 2010– | |
| Cape Canaveral AFS,
Florida, USA |
LC5 | Redstone | Mercury 3–4 | 2 Sub-O | 1961–1961 |
| LC14 | Atlas | Mercury 6–9 | 4 Orbital | 1962–1963 | |
| LC19 | Titan II | Gemini 3–12 | 10 Orbital | 1965–1966 | |
| LC34 | Saturn IB | Apollo 7 | 1 Orbital | 1968–1968 | |
| Kennedy Space Center,
Florida, USA |
LC39 | Saturn V | Apollo 8–17 | 10 Lun/Or | 1968–1970 |
| LC39 | Saturn IB | Skylab 2–4 | 3 Orbital | 1973–1974 | |
| LC39 | Saturn IB | Apollo-Soyuz | 1 Orbital | 1975–1975 | |
| LC39 | STS 1–135 ‡ | Space Shuttle | 134 Orbital | 1981–2011 | |
| Jiuquan,
China |
Area 4 | Long March 2F | Shenzhou 5–7, 9 | 4 Orbital | 2003– |
| Edwards AFB,
California, USA |
Runway | B-52 | X-15 90–91 | 2 Sub-O | 1963–1963 |
| Mojave Spaceport,
California, USA |
Runway | White Knight | SpaceShipOne 15–17 | 3 Sub-O | 2004–2004 |
† Three of the Soyuz missions were unmanned and are not counted (Soyuz 2, Soyuz 20, Soyuz 34).
‡ STS-51-L (Challenger) failed to reach orbit and is not counted. STS-107 (Columbia) reached orbit and is therefore included in the count (disaster struck on re-entry).
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