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9 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1962 and the latest in 2023.
MARKED ON THIS DATE
2009 · 17 years ago today
Kepler goes looking for planets
Kepler launched to stare at one patch of sky and watch for the dimming that betrays a planet crossing its star.
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March 7 in spaceflight
10 launches flew on March 7, the earliest of them in 1962, and 9 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on March 7. 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 1986.
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What happened on March 7
1986
Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ↗2009
The Kepler space telescope (depicted), designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, was launched.
Kepler space telescope ↗
Launches on March 7Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
10 launches
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- 2023H3-22 | ALOS-3 (Maiden flight)MHIFAILURE
- 2020Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX CRS-20SpXSUCCESS
- 2017Vega | Sentinel-2BASASUCCESS
- 2009Delta II 7925-10L | KeplerULASUCCESS
- 1995Proton | Uragan 63 to 65KhSCSUCCESS
- 1988Long March 3 | DFH-2A 2CASCSUCCESS
- 1984Soyuz-U | Zenit-6U 92CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Voskhod | Zenit-4 5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1962Atlas Agena B | Samos 6USAFSUCCESS
- 1962Thor Delta | OSO 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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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.