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25 launches flew on March 25, the earliest of them in 1961, and 24 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on March 25. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

ON RECORD

25MISSIONS

24 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1961 and the latest in 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

3ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1655.

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What happened on March 25

  1. 1655

    Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of Saturn.

    Christiaan Huygens ↗

  2. 1655

    Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

    Saturn ↗

  3. 1979

    The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

    Space Shuttle ↗

Launches on March 25Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

25 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Long March 2D | SuperView Neo 2-05 & 06CASCSUCCESS
  2. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-46SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2021Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 5ASASUCCESS
  4. 2015Dnepr 1 | KOMPSat-3AISCKSUCCESS
  5. 2015Delta IV M+(4,2) | GPS IIF-9 (USA-260)ULASUCCESS
  6. 2014Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-12MRFSASUCCESS
  7. 2012Proton-M / Briz-M Enhanced | Intelsat 22ILSSUCCESS
  8. 2002Long March 2F | Shenzhou-3CASCSUCCESS
  9. 2000Delta 7326-9.5 | IMAGEUSAFSUCCESS
  10. 1998Long March 2C/SD | Iridium 51 & 61CASCSUCCESS
  11. 1993Atlas I | UHF F/O F1GDSUCCESS
  12. 1993Start-1 | EKA-1VKSSUCCESS
  13. 1993Proton | Raduga 29KhSCSUCCESS
  14. 1988Scout G-1 | San Marco 5NASASUCCESS
  15. 1986Tsiklon-2 | US-P 24CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1985Soyuz U | Yantar-4KS1 3CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1982Tsiklon-3 | Meteor-2 8CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1978Titan IIIC | DSCS-2 9 & 10USAFFAILURE
  19. 1972Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 51CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1972Kosmos-3M | Sfera 8CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1967Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 7CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1965Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 18USAFSUCCESS
  23. 1965Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 26CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1961Delta DM-19 | Explorer 10USAFSUCCESS
  25. 1961Vostok-K | Sputnik 10CCCPSUCCESS

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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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