Launches
ON RECORD21MISSIONS
19 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1968 and the latest in 2020.
MARKED ON THIS DATE
2018 · 8 years ago today
Falcon Heavy's first flight
Falcon Heavy flew for the first time and landed both side boosters at Cape Canaveral within seconds of each other.
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February 6 in spaceflight
21 launches flew on February 6, the earliest of them in 1968, and 19 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on February 6. 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 1959.
Pictures from this date
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What happened on February 6
1959
At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
Cape Canaveral ↗
Launches on February 6Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
21 launches
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- 2020Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 2ASASUCCESS
- 2018Falcon Heavy | Demo (Test Flight)SpXSUCCESS
- 2014Ariane 5 ECA | ABS-2 & Athena-FidusASASUCCESS
- 2013Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat | 6 x Globalstar-2SSASUCCESS
- 2011Minotaur I | NROL-66 (RPP) (USA-225)OSCSUCCESS
- 2009Delta II 7320-10C | NOAA-19 (NOAA N)ULASUCCESS
- 1990Kosmos-3M | Duga-K 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Tsiklon-3 | Meteor-2 12CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Soyuz U | Zenit-8 11CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Soyuz U | Yantar-2K 28CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Kosmos-3M | AUOS-Z-R-P-IK 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979N-I | AyameNASDAFAILURE
- 1977Titan IIIC | DSP 7USAFSUCCESS
- 1975Delta 2914 | SMS 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1975Diamant BP4 | StarletteCNESSUCCESS
- 1975Molniya-M | Molniya-2 12CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 22CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Apollo LM | Apollo 14NASASUCCESS
- 1970Proton | Luna-16cCCCPFAILURE
- 1969Thor Delta M | INTELSAT III F-3USAFSUCCESS
- 1968Voskhod | Zenit-4 38CCCPSUCCESS
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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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