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19 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1965 and the latest in 2026.
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March 2 in spaceflight
21 launches flew on March 2, the earliest of them in 1965, and 19 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 5 spaceflight and astronomy events on March 2. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
Recorded events
IN THE RECORD5ENTRIES
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What happened on March 2
1972
The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
Pioneer 10 ↗1978
As a cosmonaut on Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military pilot Vladimír Remek (pictured) became the first person from outside the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.
Astronaut ↗1978
Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Soviet or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
Czechoslovakia ↗1995
Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-67, carrying the ASTRO-2 spacelab observatory.
Space Shuttle Endeavour ↗1998
Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
Galileo (spacecraft) ↗
Launches on March 2Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
21 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-41SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Glonass-K2 No. 14 (Kosmos 2584)VKSSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-6SpXSUCCESS
- 2019SARGE | Launch 2 - "Mission 1"EXOSPARTIAL
- 2019Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX-DM1 (Demonstration Mission 1)SpXSUCCESS
- 2017Kaituozhe-2 | Tiankun-1CASCSUCCESS
- 2015Falcon 9 v1.1 | Eutelsat 115 West B & ABS-3ASpXSUCCESS
- 2004Ariane 5 G+ | RosettaASASUCCESS
- 1995Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 27NPSUCCESS
- 1995Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-67LSOCSUCCESS
- 1994Tsiklon-3 | Koronas-IVKSSUCCESS
- 1991Ariane 44LP | Astra 1B & Meteosat 5ASASUCCESS
- 1989Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 44CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Proton-K/DM | Potok 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 73CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Proton | TKS 3CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 39CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Soyuz-U | Soyuz 28CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968Proton / UR-500 K/D | Zond 4CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968Scout A | Transit-O 18USAFSUCCESS
- 1965Atlas Centaur | Surveyor-SD 1USAFFAILURE
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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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