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March 6 in spaceflight

12 launches flew on March 6, the earliest of them in 1968, and 10 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

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12MISSIONS

10 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1968 and the latest in 2025.

Recorded events

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Launches on March 6Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

12 launches

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  1. 2025Starship | Flight 8SpXFAILURE
  2. 2025Ariane 62 | CSO-3ASASUCCESS
  3. 2018Falcon 9 Block 4 | Hispasat 30W-6 (Hispasat 1F)SpXSUCCESS
  4. 1991Soyuz-U-PVB | Zenit-8 98CCCPSUCCESS
  5. 1989Ariane 44LP | JCSAT 1 & Meteosat 4ASASUCCESS
  6. 1984Molniya-M | US-K 32CCCPSUCCESS
  7. 1982Titan IIIC | DSP 10USAFSUCCESS
  8. 1981Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 209-216CCCPSUCCESS
  9. 1973Atlas SLV-3A Agena D | Aquacade 2USAFSUCCESS
  10. 1973Voskhod | Zenit-4M 47CCCPSUCCESS
  11. 1969Voskhod | Zenit-4 52CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1968Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U1-Ya 1CCCPFAILURE

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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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Launch records are from The Space Devs’ Launch Library 2. Pictures are NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. Many of them belong to the photographer or a partner agency, so we only show the ones credited to NASA alone.

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