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24 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1966 and the latest in 2025.
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January 20 in spaceflight
25 launches flew on January 20, the earliest of them in 1966, and 24 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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Launches on January 20Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
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- 2025Ceres-1 | 5 satellitesGESUCCESS
- 2024Qaem 100 | SorayaIRGCAFSUCCESS
- 2021Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 16SpXSUCCESS
- 2021Electron | Another One Leaves The Crust (GMS-T)RLSUCCESS
- 2018Atlas V 411 | SBIRS GEO Flight 4 (SBIRS GEO-3)ULASUCCESS
- 2016PSLV XL | IRNSS-1EISROSUCCESS
- 2012Delta IV M+(5,4) | WGS-4 (USA-233)ULASUCCESS
- 2011Delta IV Heavy | NROL-49 (KH-11) (USA-224)ULASUCCESS
- 2011Zenit-3F | Elektro-L No.1RFSASUCCESS
- 2005Kosmos-3M | Parus 96NPSUCCESS
- 1994Proton-K/DM-2M | Gals 1KhSCSUCCESS
- 1988Soyuz-U2 | Progress 34CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Vostok 8A92M | Tselina-D 39CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 52CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Soyuz U | Yantar-2K 15CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Soyuz U | Progress 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1977Kosmos-3M | Zaliv 23CCCPSUCCESS
- 1977Soyuz U | Zenit-2M 74CCCPSUCCESS
- 1976Kosmos-3M | Parus 5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1973Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 17CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Titan IIID | KH-9 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1971Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 7 (19L)CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-MG 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Proton / UR-500 K/D | Soyuz 7K-L1 No.13LCCCPFAILURE
- 1966Little Joe II | A-004NASASUCCESS
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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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