Launches
ON RECORD23MISSIONS
20 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1960 and the latest in 2022.
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1986 · 40 years ago today
The Mir core module
The first module of Mir reached orbit. From 1989 the station was occupied almost without a break for ten years.
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February 19 in spaceflight
23 launches flew on February 19, the earliest of them in 1960, and 20 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on February 19. 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 1960.
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What happened on February 19
2002
NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
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Launches on February 19Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
23 launches
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- 2022Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-17 (S.S. Piers Sellers)NGSSSUCCESS
- 2020Long March 2D | XJS-C, XJS-D, XJS-E, XJS-FCASCSUCCESS
- 2017Falcon 9 Full Thrust | SpX CRS-10SpXSUCCESS
- 1996Proton | Raduga 33KhSCSUCCESS
- 1996Tsiklon-3 | Gonets-D 319 to 321 & Strela-3 113 to 115VKSSUCCESS
- 1994Delta 7925-8 | Galaxy 1R2USAFSUCCESS
- 1988H-1 | Sakura 3AMHISUCCESS
- 1988Soyuz U | Zenit-8 59CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Soyuz U | Zenit-8 44CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987N-2 | Momo 1aNASDASUCCESS
- 1986Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 54CCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Proton | MirCCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Vostok 8A92M | Tselina-D 33CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Molniya-M | US-K 19CCCPSUCCESS
- 1977Mu-3H | Tansei-3ISASSUCCESS
- 1976Delta 2914 | Marisat 1USAFSUCCESS
- 1976Thor Burner 2A | DMSP-5C F3USAFSUCCESS
- 1970Molniya-M | Molniya-1 13CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Proton | Luna-15aCCCPFAILURE
- 1966Voskhod | Zenit-4 15CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Molniya 8K78 | Zond-1bCCCPFAILURE
- 1963Scout X-3M | DSAP-1 F3USAFSUCCESS
- 1960Thor Agena A | Discoverer 10USAFFAILURE
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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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