| Launch site | Date | Scientific Experiment | Payload landing site |
 | Edwards AFB (CA) | 1/7 | MOBY DICK | In Pitt County, North Carolina | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 1/9 | MOBY DICK | In San Angelo, Texas | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 1/28 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 34.3º N - 94.8º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 1/30 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 28.5º N - 102.0º W | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 1/31 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/1 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/2 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/4 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/5 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/6 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/8 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/9 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 2/9 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 32.6º N - 80.9º W | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/12 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 2/13 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 45.6º N - 85.8º W | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/15 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 2/15 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 35.4º N - 97.0º W | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/17 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 2/17 | MOBY DICK | In Durham, Kansas | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/18 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Goodfellow AFB (TX) | 2/18 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 2/18 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 37.7º N - 96.3º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 2/19 | MOBY DICK | 12 miles E of Clanton, Alabama | | | |
| New Brighton (MN) | 3/2 | TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS IN FLIGHT | --- No data --- | | |  |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 3/15 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 44.6º N - 83.6º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 3/18 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 35.1º N - 104.4º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 3/19 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 30.6º N - 79.6º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 3/26 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 40.4º N - 81.3º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 3/27 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 32.8º N - 85.3º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/1 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 30.5º N - 75.8º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/2 | MOBY DICK | 30 miles SW of Ship Shoal Light, Gulf of Mexico | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 4/2 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 33.6º N - 81.5º W | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 4/3 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 32.3º N - 79.9º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/7 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 38.5º N - 87.6º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/10 | MOBY DICK | 9 miles SE of Bloom, Kansas | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/11 | MOBY DICK | 35 miles SE of Sasobe, State of Sonora, Mexico | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/13 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 34.1º N - 102.7º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/15 | MOBY DICK | In Long Beach, Long Island, New York | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/19 | MOBY DICK | In the Cochise Dry Lake, Arizona | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/20 | MOBY DICK | 3 miles NW of Higbee, Missouri | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 4/21 | MOBY DICK | In Pinco Mesa, Tucunmari, New Mexico | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/22 | MOBY DICK | 4 miles W and 1 mile S of Indianola, Oklahoma | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/24 | MOBY DICK | The payload was retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean at the 31.1º N - 47.5º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 4/29 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 44.3º N - 100.1º W | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 5/1 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 40.2º N - 120.2º W | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 5/2 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 31.4º N - 113.2º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 5/3 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 27.0º N - 80.7º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 5/4 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 31.4º N - 78.3º W | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 5/5 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 32.9º N - 81.8º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 5/6 | MOBY DICK | 74 miles SW of Tampa, Florida | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 5/8 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 28.7º N - 79.0º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 5/10 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 31.8º N - 80.4º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 5/11 | MOBY DICK | 3 miles NE of Galveston, Texas | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 5/12 | MOBY DICK | In Henefer, Utah | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 5/12 | MOBY DICK | In Floyd, Virginia | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 5/13 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 32.0º N - 80.3º W | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 5/13 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 37.5º N - 116.1º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 5/14 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 29.2º N - 80.9º W | | | |
| Edwards AFB (CA) | 5/15 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 34.0º N - 119.7º W | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 6/2 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 37.5º N - 96.5º W | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 6/3 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 36.2º N - 74.6º W | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 6/15 | MOBY DICK | 50 mils S of Flagstaff, Arizona | | | |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 6/23 | ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMY | The load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed in the Holloman base | | | |
| Vernalis NAAS (CA) | 6/24 | MOBY DICK | Payload lost. Last known position of the balloon in flight was 37.5º N - 119.6º W | | | |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 6/28 | ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMY | The load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed in Dunkin, New Mexico | | | |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 6/30 | ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMY | The load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed 10 miles SW of the Holloman base | | | |
 | USCGC Eastwind | 7/16 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/16 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/19 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/20 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/21 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/21 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/21 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/23 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/23 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/23 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/23 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/24 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/24 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/25 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/25 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/25 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/25 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/26 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| USCGC Eastwind | 7/26 | DEACON ROCKET (ROCKOON) | No Data | | | |
| Camp Ripley (MN) | 11/2 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Camp Ripley (MN) | 11/2 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 12/1 | ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMY | The load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed in the Holloman base | | | |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 12/2 | ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMY | The load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed 12 miles S of Artesia, New Mexico | | | |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 12/6 | ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMY | The load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed near Twin Buttes, New Mexico | | | |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 12/9 | ANTHROPOMORPHIC DUMMY | The load -an anthropomorphic dummy- landed 3 miles W of Twin Buttes, New Mexico | | | |
See launches from 1953
