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22 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1963 and the latest in 2025.
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March 21 in spaceflight
24 launches flew on March 21, the earliest of them in 1963, and 22 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on March 21. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1965.
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What happened on March 21
1965
Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of uncrewed lunar space probes.
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Launches on March 21Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
24 launches
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- 2025Ceres-1 | Yunyao-1 43-48GESUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-57SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-30SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Electron | Live and Let Fly (NROL-123)RLSUCCESS
- 2024Long March 2D/YZ-3 | Yunhai-2 Group 02CASCSUCCESS
- 2020Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 3ASASUCCESS
- 2018Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-08RFSASUCCESS
- 2007Falcon 1 | DemoSatSpXFAILURE
- 2002Soyuz U | Progress M1-8RFSASUCCESS
- 2000Ariane 5 G | INSAT-3B & AsiaStarASASUCCESS
- 1999Proton-K/DM-2M | Asiasat 3SKhSCSUCCESS
- 1996PSLV | IRS-P3ISROSUCCESS
- 1986Tsiklon-2 | US-A 28CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 289-296CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Soyuz-U-PVB | Zenit-6U 93CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Kosmos-3M | Parus 18CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Soyuz U | Zenit-4MT 8CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Titan 33B | Jumpseat 1USAFSUCCESS
- 1968Voskhod | Zenit-2M 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Kosmos 11K63 | DS-MO 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1966Voskhod | Zenit-4 16CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Atlas Agena B | Ranger 9USAFSUCCESS
- 1964Molniya 8K78 | Luna-5aCCCPFAILURE
- 1963Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 8CCCPSUCCESS
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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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