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22 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1963 and the latest in 2026.
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April 2 in spaceflight
23 launches flew on April 2, the earliest of them in 1963, and 22 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-58SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Long March 2D | Yaogan 42-01CASCSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-18SpXSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 0ASpXSUCCESS
- 2023Tianlong-2 | Demo FlightSPSUCCESS
- 2022Electron | Without Mission A Beat (BlackSky 16-17)RLSUCCESS
- 2018Falcon 9 Block 4 | SpX CRS-14SpXSUCCESS
- 2016New Shepard | NS-4BOSUCCESS
- 2010Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-18RFSASUCCESS
- 2003Molniya-M | Molniya-1T 92PRSCSUCCESS
- 1999Ariane 42P | Insat 2EASASUCCESS
- 1999Soyuz U | Progress M-41RFSASUCCESS
- 1998Pegasus XL | Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE)OSCSUCCESS
- 1993Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 69VKSSUCCESS
- 1992Proton | Gorizont 25KhSCSUCCESS
- 1989Ariane 2 | Tele-XASASUCCESS
- 1983Molniya-M | Molniya-1T 57CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Tsiklon-2 | US-A 9CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Voskhod | Zenit-2M 18CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Proton | Mars-2cCCCPFAILURE
- 1964Molniya 8K78 | Zond 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1963Molniya 8K78 | Luna-4CCCPSUCCESS
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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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