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16 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1964 and the latest in 2026.
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2006 · 20 years ago today
New Horizons departs for Pluto
New Horizons left Earth faster than any spacecraft before it, on a nine-year crossing to Pluto.
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January 19 in spaceflight
17 launches flew on January 19, the earliest of them in 1964, and 16 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on January 19. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on January 19
2024
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's probe lands on the moon, making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.
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Launches on January 19Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
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- 2026Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 19CASCSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 2-4SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-6SpXSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 3B/E | Tiantong-1-03CASCSUCCESS
- 2020Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon In-Flight Abort TestSpXSUCCESS
- 2019Delta IV Heavy | NROL-71ULASUCCESS
- 2018Long March 11 | Jilin-1-07 (Deqing-1), Jilin-1-08CASCSUCCESS
- 2006Atlas V 551 | New HorizonsULASUCCESS
- 1993Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 68VKSSUCCESS
- 1983Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 257-264CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Delta 2313 | Skynet IIAUSAFFAILURE
- 1968Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 45CCCPSUCCESS
- 1966Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 24USAFSUCCESS
- 1965Titan II GLV | Gemini IIUSAFSUCCESS
- 1965Thor MG-18 | DSAP-1 F10USAFSUCCESS
- 1964Thor SLV-2 Agena D | DSAP-1 F6 & F7USAFSUCCESS
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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.