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March 12 in spaceflight

19 launches flew on March 12, the earliest of them in 1964, and 17 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

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19MISSIONS

17 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1964 and the latest in 2026.

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Launches on March 12Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

19 launches

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  1. 2026Long March 2D | Shiyan 30 03-04CASCSUCCESS
  2. 2026Long March 8A | SatNet LEO Group 20CASCSUCCESS
  3. 2026Firefly Alpha | Stairway to SevenFASUCCESS
  4. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | SPHEREx & PUNCHSpXSUCCESS
  5. 2024Electron | Owl Night Long (StriX-3)RLSUCCESS
  6. 2023Proton-M Briz-M | Olymp-K #2 (Luch 5X)KhSCSUCCESS
  7. 2000Zenit | ICO F1SLFAILURE
  8. 2000Taurus 1110 | MTIOSCSUCCESS
  9. 2000Proton-K/DM-2M | Ekspress 6AKhSCSUCCESS
  10. 1991Kosmos-3M | Nadezhda 6CCCPSUCCESS
  11. 1983Proton-K/DM | EkranCCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1981Soyuz-U | Soyuz T-4CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1979Soyuz U | Progress 5CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1976Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1 4CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1975Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 38CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1972Thor Delta N | TD-1AUSAFSUCCESS
  17. 1965Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 16USAFSUCCESS
  18. 1965Molniya 8K78 | Luna-5cCCCPFAILURE
  19. 1964Nike Cajun | Trailblazer PelletNASASUCCESS

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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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