| Launch site | Date | Scientific Experiment | Payload landing site |
 | USS Valley Forge | 1/23 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| USS Valley Forge | 1/24 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| USS Valley Forge | 1/25 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| USS Valley Forge | 1/25 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| USS Valley Forge | 1/26 | Cosmic ray and wind patterns study. | The Navy destroyer Hyman recovered the gondola from the sea and returned it to the Valley Forge. | | | |
| USS Valley Forge | 1/29 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
| USS Valley Forge | 1/30 | Cosmic ray and wind patterns study. | --- No data --- | | | |
| USS Valley Forge | 1/31 | -- No Data -- | --- No data --- | | | |
 | Holloman AFB (NM) | 4/5 | DISCOVERER NOSECONE | --- No data --- | | | |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 4/8 | DISCOVERER NOSECONE | White Sands Missile Range | | | |
| Bemidji (MN) | 7/17 | ANIMAL CAPSULE | Payload retrieved in good condition. 12 mice survived. | | | |
| Bemidji (MN) | 7/23 | ANIMAL CAPSULE | Payload retrieved in good condition. 12 mice survived. | | | |
| Bemidji (MN) | 7/29 | ANIMAL CAPSULE | After the parachute opened, an antenna suspended bellow the payload was torn off. The resulting loss of radio contact caused a delay in recovery of the capsule. 3 mice survived. | | | |
| Bemidji (MN) | 8/5 | ANIMAL CAPSULE | Payload retrieved in good condition. 11 mice survived. | | | |
| Holloman AFB (NM) | 8/16 | EXCELSIOR III | In a predetermined zone of the White Sands Missile Range west of launch site. |  | |  |
See launches from 1959
