2021 in spaceflight
Highlights from spaceflight in 2021 | |
| Orbital launches | |
|---|---|
| First | 8 January |
| Last | 30 December |
| Total | 146 |
| Successes | 135 |
| Failures | 10 |
| Partial failures | 1 |
| Catalogued | 133 |
| National firsts | |
| Spaceflight |
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| Satellite | |
| Space traveller | |
| Rockets | |
| Maiden flights | |
| Retirements | |
| Crewed flights | |
| Orbital | 8 |
| Orbital travellers | 27 |
| Suborbital | 5 |
| Suborbital travellers | 21 |
| Total travellers | 48 |
| EVAs | 17 |
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The year 2021 broke the record for the most orbital launch attempts till then (146) and most humans in space concurrently (19) despite the effects of COVID-19 pandemic.