Launches
ON RECORD27MISSIONS
24 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1961 and the latest in 2026.
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2017 · 9 years ago today
The first re-flight of an orbital booster
SpaceX launched SES-10 on a Falcon 9 first stage that had already flown and landed, then landed it again.
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March 30 in spaceflight
27 launches flew on March 30, the earliest of them in 1961, and 24 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on March 30. 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 1982.
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What happened on March 30
1982
Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
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Launches on March 30Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
27 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-44SpXSUCCESS
- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)SpXSUCCESS
- 2026Kinetica 2 | Demo Flight (Qingzhou Prototype Spacecraft)CASSUCCESS
- 2025Spectrum | Maiden FlightISARFAILURE
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Eutelsat 36DSpXSUCCESS
- 2023Long March 2D | PIESAT-1 x 4CASCSUCCESS
- 2022Long March 11 | Tianping-2 A/B/CCASCSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 4C | Gaofen-12-02CASCSUCCESS
- 2021Starship SN11 | 10 km FlightSpXFAILURE
- 2018Falcon 9 Block 4 | Iridium-5SpXSUCCESS
- 2017Falcon 9 Full Thrust | SES-10SpXSUCCESS
- 2015Long March 3C/YZ-1 | BDS I1-SCASCSUCCESS
- 2012Proton-K/DM-2 | US-KMO (Kosmos-2479)KhSCSUCCESS
- 2006Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-8RFSASUCCESS
- 2002Proton-K/DM-2M | INTELSAT 903KhSCSUCCESS
- 1998Delta II | Iridium 55 to 60USAFSUCCESS
- 1993Tsiklon-2 | US-PM 1RFSASUCCESS
- 1993Delta II | GPS IIA-10USAFSUCCESS
- 1988Soyuz U | Yantar-4KS1 9CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Kosmos-3M | Parus 37CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKM 14CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Proton | TKS-VA 5 & 6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 11 (23L)CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 40USAFSUCCESS
- 1966Atlas D | OV1-4 & 5USAFSUCCESS
- 1965Blue Scout Jr | OAR 22-4USAFSUCCESS
- 1961Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 22USAFFAILURE
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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.