1956 in spaceflight

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

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December

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