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18 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1963 and the latest in 2026.
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April 22 in spaceflight
19 launches flew on April 22, the earliest of them in 1963, and 18 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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Launches on April 22Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
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- 2026HASTE | BubblesRLSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)SpXSUCCESS
- 2023PSLV-CA | TeLEOS-2ISROSUCCESS
- 2020Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 6SpXSUCCESS
- 2020Qased | NoorIRGCAFSUCCESS
- 2011Ariane 5 ECA | Yahsat 1A & New DawnASASUCCESS
- 2011SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF05VGSUCCESS
- 2010Atlas V 501 | OTV-1 (X-37B) (USA 212)ULASUCCESS
- 2009Long March 2C | Yaogan Weixing 6CASCSUCCESS
- 1987Soyuz U | Zenit-8 46CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Proton-K/DM | Gorizont 9CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Soyuz U | Yantar-2K 29CCCPSUCCESS
- 1976Delta 2914 | NATO 3AUSAFSUCCESS
- 1975Kosmos-3M | Zaliv 19CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Soyuz | Soyuz 10CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Titan 23B | KH-8 31USAFSUCCESS
- 1968Proton / UR-500 K/D | Soyuz 7K-L1 No.7LCCCPFAILURE
- 1966Scout B | OV3-1USAFSUCCESS
- 1963Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 9CCCPSUCCESS
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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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