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28 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1961 and the latest in 2026.
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April 25 in spaceflight
31 launches flew on April 25, the earliest of them in 1961, and 28 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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- 2026Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-34 (95P)RFSASUCCESS
- 2026Long March 6 | PRSC-EO3CASCSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-74SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 18CASCSUCCESS
- 2021Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 6ASASUCCESS
- 2020Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-14 (75P)RFSASUCCESS
- 2018Rokot / Briz-KM | Sentinel-3BELSSUCCESS
- 2016Soyuz STA/Fregat | Sentinel-1BASASUCCESS
- 2008Long March 3C | Tian Lian 1ACASCSUCCESS
- 2007Pegasus XL | Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM)OSCSUCCESS
- 2006Start-1 | EROS BVKSSUCCESS
- 2002Soyuz-U | Soyuz TM-34RFSASUCCESS
- 2000Soyuz U | Progress M1-2RFSASUCCESS
- 1997Atlas I | GOES 10GDSUCCESS
- 1993Pegasus | Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (ALEXIS)OSCSUCCESS
- 1992Titan II SLV | P-11 5105USAFSUCCESS
- 1990Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 25CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Soyuz U | Zenit-8 14CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Molniya-M | US-K 29CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Proton | TKS 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Tsiklon-2 | US-P 7CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Proton-K/DM | Raduga 5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1973Voskhod | Zenit-2M 37CCCPSUCCESS
- 1973Tsiklon-2 | US-A 5CCCPFAILURE
- 1972Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 54CCCPFAILURE
- 1970Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 1-8CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968R-36O 8K69 | OGCh 17CCCPSUCCESS
- 1966Molniya 8K78 | Molniya-1 3CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 17CCCPSUCCESS
- 1962Saturn I | Saturn SA-2NASASUCCESS
- 1961Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 3NASAFAILURE
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Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan
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