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22 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1969 and the latest in 2026.
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1970 · 56 years ago today
Apollo 13 launches
Apollo 13 left for the Moon. Two days later an oxygen tank ruptured and turned the flight into a rescue.
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April 11 in spaceflight
22 launches flew on April 11, the earliest of them in 1969, and 22 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on April 11. 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 1970.
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What happened on April 11
Launches on April 11Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
22 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-24 (S.S. Steven R. Nagel)SpXSUCCESS
- 2026Smart Dragon 3 | SatNet test satelliteCHNRSUCCESS
- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-21SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-62SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Angara A5/Blok DM-03 | Vostochny Angara Test FlightKhSCSUCCESS
- 2019Falcon Heavy | Arabsat-6ASpXSUCCESS
- 2018PSLV XL | IRNSS-1IISROSUCCESS
- 2007Long March 2C | Hai Yang 1BCASCSUCCESS
- 2005Minotaur I | XSS-11OSCSUCCESS
- 1994Proton | Uragan 54 to 56KhSCSUCCESS
- 1990Soyuz U | Foton 6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1990Atlas E Altair | POGS & SSR, TEX, SCEUSAFSUCCESS
- 1988Soyuz U | Zenit-8 61CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Delta 3924 | Satcom 1RUSAFSUCCESS
- 1979Kosmos-3M | Tsikada 5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1977Molniya-M | US-K 6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Kosmos-3M | Parus 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Voskhod | Zenit-2M 46CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 52CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Saturn V | Apollo 13NASASUCCESS
- 1970Kosmos-3M | Zaliv 5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Molniya-M | Molniya-1 11CCCPSUCCESS
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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.