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6 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1969 and the latest in 2025.
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May 2 in spaceflight
6 launches flew on May 2, the earliest of them in 1969, and 6 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on May 2. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1963.
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What happened on May 2
1963
Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH ↗1995
Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began rocket attacks on the Croatian capital Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring around 200 others.
Croatian War of Independence ↗
Launches on May 2Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
6 launches
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-75SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 1 & 2SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Electron | There and Back Again (Rideshare)RLSUCCESS
- 2019New Shepard | NS-11BOSUCCESS
- 1998Long March 2C/SD | Iridium 69 & 71CASCSUCCESS
- 1969Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4A 51USAFSUCCESS
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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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