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January 29 in spaceflight

20 launches flew on January 29, the earliest of them in 1964, and 19 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

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20MISSIONS

19 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1964 and the latest in 2026.

Recorded events

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Launches on January 29Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

20 launches

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  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-19SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2025GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1K (NVS-02)ISROSUCCESS
  3. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-12SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-38SpXSUCCESS
  5. 2021Long March 4C | Yaogan-31-02CASCSUCCESS
  6. 2020Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 3SpXSUCCESS
  7. 2016Proton-M Briz-M | Eutelsat 9BILSSUCCESS
  8. 2004Soyuz U | Progress M1-11RFSASUCCESS
  9. 2003Delta II | GPS IIR-8USAFSUCCESS
  10. 1998Atlas IIA | NROL-5LMTSUCCESS
  11. 1998Soyuz U | Soyuz TM-27RFSASUCCESS
  12. 1995Atlas II | UHF F/O F4USAFSUCCESS
  13. 1992Proton | Uragan 45 to 47KhSCSUCCESS
  14. 1991Kosmos-3M | Informator-1CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1987Kosmos-3M | Tsikada 15CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1984Long March 3 | DFH-2 1CASCPARTIAL
  17. 1982Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 10CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1976Atlas SLV-3D Centaur | Intelsat-4A 2USAFSUCCESS
  19. 1976Voskhod | Zenit-2M 64CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1964Saturn I | Saturn SA-5NASASUCCESS

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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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Event text and thumbnails come from Wikipedia and are used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Images come only from Wikimedia Commons, which doesn't accept non-free content. Each thumbnail links to its file page, which lists its licence and author.

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.

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