Launches
ON RECORD19MISSIONS
16 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1961 and the latest in 2026.
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2024 · 2 years ago today
A commercial lander reaches the Moon
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus touched down near the lunar south pole, the first American landing on the Moon since Apollo 17.
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February 22 in spaceflight
19 launches flew on February 22, the earliest of them in 1961, and 16 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on February 22. 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 1632.
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What happened on February 22
1632
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
Ferdinando II de' Medici ↗1995
The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
CORONA (satellite) ↗
Launches on February 22Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
19 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-104SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Long March 3B/E | ChinaSat 10RCASCSUCCESS
- 2019SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity VF-01VGSUCCESS
- 2019Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nusantara Satu & GTO-1 (Beresheet, S5)SpXSUCCESS
- 2018Falcon 9 Full Thrust | PAZ & Microsat-2a, Microsat-2bSpXSUCCESS
- 2017Soyuz-U | Progress MS-05 (66P)RFSASUCCESS
- 1996Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-75LMSOSUCCESS
- 1990Ariane 44L | Superbird B & BS 2xASAFAILURE
- 1989Kosmos-3M | Parus 64CCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Ariane 1 | SPOT 1 & VikingASASUCCESS
- 1980N-I | Ayame 2NASDASUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKM 28CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Atlas F/SVS | Navstar 1USAFSUCCESS
- 1977Soyuz U | Zenit-4MK 74CCCPFAILURE
- 1972Luna | Luna-20CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 39USAFSUCCESS
- 1966Voskhod | Voskhod-3KV 3CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Voskhod | Voskhod-3KD 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1961Thor DM-21 Ablestar | Transit 3B & LOFTI-1USAFPARTIAL
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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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