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17 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1958 and the latest in 2025.
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April 27 in spaceflight
19 launches flew on April 27, the earliest of them in 1958, and 17 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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Launches on April 27Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
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- 2025Long March 3B/E | Tianlian 2-05CASCSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 3-5SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-4SpXSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 6 | Qilu-1, Qilu-4 & othersCASCSUCCESS
- 2015Falcon 9 v1.1 | TürkmenÄlem 52E/MonacoSATSpXSUCCESS
- 2011Soyuz-U | Progress M-10M (42P)RFSASUCCESS
- 2011SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF06VGSUCCESS
- 2010Kosmos-3M | Parus 99VKSSUCCESS
- 1999Athena II | Ikonos 1LMTFAILURE
- 1993Soyuz U | Yantar-1KFT 16RFSASUCCESS
- 1988Soyuz U | Zenit-8 62CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 60CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Soyuz U | Progress 9CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz U | Yantar-4K1 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1977Kosmos-3M | ER763-4CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 7CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 5USAFSUCCESS
- 1961Juno II | Explorer 11ABMASUCCESS
- 1958Sputnik 8A91 | D-1 1CCCPFAILURE
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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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