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9 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1965 and the latest in 2025.
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April 10 in spaceflight
10 launches flew on April 10, the earliest of them in 1965, and 9 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on April 10. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
Recorded events
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What happened on April 10
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Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
Halley's Comet ↗1991
A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola, the first to be documented by satellites.
South Atlantic tropical cyclone ↗2019
Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy M87.
Event Horizon Telescope ↗
Launches on April 10Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
10 launches
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- 2025Long March 3B/E | TJSW-17CASCSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-48SpXSUCCESS
- 2018Long March 4C | 3 x Yaogan-31-01CASCSUCCESS
- 2014Atlas V 541 | NROL-67 (USA-250)ULASUCCESS
- 1992Delta II | GPS IIA-4USAFSUCCESS
- 1984Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Delta 3910/PAM | Insat 1AUSAFSUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz-U | Soyuz 33CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Titan IIID | KH-9 8USAFSUCCESS
- 1965Molniya 8K78 | Luna-5dCCCPFAILURE
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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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