Editing 1960 in science (section)

==Astronomy and space exploration==
* April 8 - [[Project Ozma]], under the direction of astronomer [[Frank Drake]] at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in [[Green Bank, West Virginia]], commences the first modern [[search for extraterrestrial intelligence]] (SETI) experiment.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Science: Project Ozma |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,874057,00.html |magazine=Time |access-date=17 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911035633/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,874057,00.html |archive-date=11 September 2009}}</ref>
* April 13 – The U.S. Navy [[Transit (satellite)|Transit satellite]] 1B is successfully launched by a [[Thor-Ablestar]] rocket<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1960-003B|title=Transit 1B - NSSDC ID: 1960-003B|publisher=NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive}}</ref> leading to the first successful tests of a [[satellite navigation]] system.
* June 22 – The U.S. Navy [[SOLRAD 1]] [[Galactic Radiation and Background]] program satellite is successfully launched by the same Thor-Ablestar rocket as Transit 2A, serving as the first successful U.S. [[reconnaissance satellite]] and returning the first real-time [[X-ray]] and [[ultraviolet]] observations of the Sun.
* August 11 – The return capsule of the U.S. ''Discoverer 13'' [[Corona (satellite)|Corona]] mission is successfully recovered from the Pacific Ocean, the first time any man-made object has been recovered successfully from orbit.<ref>{{cite web|title=Discoverer 13|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1960-008A|publisher=NASA|access-date=2015-11-06}}</ref>
* September – A Soviet [[SS-2 Sibling]] missile is successfully launched in a suborbital test from [[Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center]], the first Chinese spaceflight.
* October 4 – The U.S. Army [[Courier 1B]], the world's first active communications repeater satellite, is launched into low Earth orbit.