Launches
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9 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1962 and the latest in 2025.
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May 10 in spaceflight
11 launches flew on May 10, the earliest of them in 1962, and 9 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on May 10. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
Recorded events
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What happened on May 10
-28
Chinese astronomers during the Han dynasty made the first precisely dated observation of a sunspot.
Chinese astronomy ↗-28
A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
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Launches on May 10Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
11 launches
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-91SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-3SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 8-2SpXSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 2-9SpXSUCCESS
- 2023Long March 7 | Tianzhou-6CASCSUCCESS
- 2012Long March 4B | Yaogan 14 & Tiantuo 1CASCSUCCESS
- 2011SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF08VGSUCCESS
- 1999Long March 4B | Feng Yun 1CCASCSUCCESS
- 1989Titan 34D Transtage | Mercury 13USAFSUCCESS
- 1971Proton | Mars-2dCCCPFAILURE
- 1962Thor DM-21 Ablestar | ANNA 1AUSAFFAILURE
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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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