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24 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1962 and the latest in 2026.
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February 27 in spaceflight
24 launches flew on February 27, the earliest of them in 1962, and 24 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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Launches on February 27Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-108SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-30 (91P)RFSASUCCESS
- 2025Long March 2C | SuperView Neo 1-03 & 04CASCSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-13SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C IM-2 & OthersSpXSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-1SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Long March 8 (Core Only) | Hainan-1 to 4 & othersCASCSUCCESS
- 2019Soyuz STB/Fregat | OneWeb 1 (F6)ASASUCCESS
- 2018H-IIA 202 | IGS Optical 6JAXASUCCESS
- 2015Soyuz 2.1a | Bars-M (Kosmos 2503)VKOSUCCESS
- 2014H-IIA 202 | GPM-CoreMHISUCCESS
- 2001Titan IVB | Milstar 4USAFSUCCESS
- 1998Ariane 42P | Hot Bird 4ASASUCCESS
- 1990Kosmos-3M | Nadezhda 5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Tsiklon-2 | US-P 23CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1 18CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 13 (Kosmos 1630)CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Kosmos-3M | AUOS-Z-I-IK 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz U | Yantar-2K 9CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 68CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 30CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 46CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-P1 4CCCPSUCCESS
- 1962Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 1USAFSUCCESS
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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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