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14 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1967 and the latest in 2026.
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2005 · 21 years ago today
Huygens lands on Titan
The Huygens probe descended through Titan's haze and returned pictures from the surface, the most distant landing ever made.
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January 14 in spaceflight
15 launches flew on January 14, the earliest of them in 1967, and 14 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on January 14. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
Recorded events
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Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1973.
Pictures from this date
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What happened on January 14
1973
Elvis Presley's (pictured) concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite was broadcast live to audiences in Asia and Oceania.
Elvis Presley ↗
Launches on January 14Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
15 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-98SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-10SpXSUCCESS
- 2021New Shepard | NS-14BOSUCCESS
- 2017SS-520-4 | TRICOM-1JAXAFAILURE
- 2017Falcon 9 Full Thrust | Iridium-1SpXSUCCESS
- 1996Delta II | Mugunghwa 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1991Soyuz-U2 | Progress M-6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 58CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Kosmos-3M | Parus 30CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Kosmos-3M | Parus 22CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-I 10CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Titan 23B | KH-8 25USAFSUCCESS
- 1969Soyuz | Soyuz 4CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 38USAFSUCCESS
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Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
Sagan's tour of the universe and how we came to understand it. It keeps the science in.
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Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan
Sagan's case for people leaving Earth one day, and an honest look at how hard that would be.
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Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
A science-fiction novel from the author of The Martian, built around solving one engineering problem after another.
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Launch records are from The Space Devs’ Launch Library 2. Pictures are NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. Many of them belong to the photographer or a partner agency, so we only show the ones credited to NASA alone.