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15 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1966 and the latest in 2026.
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May 11 in spaceflight
15 launches flew on May 11, the earliest of them in 1966, and 15 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on May 11. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
Recorded events
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Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 2009.
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What happened on May 11
2009
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Space Shuttle Atlantis ↗
Launches on May 11Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
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- 2026Long March 7 | Tianzhou-10CASCSUCCESS
- 2025Long March 6A | Yaogan 40 Group 02CASCSUCCESS
- 2024Long March 4C | Shiyan 23CASCSUCCESS
- 2018Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bangabandhu-1SpXSUCCESS
- 2009Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-125USASUCCESS
- 2000Delta II | GPS IIR-4USAFSUCCESS
- 1997Long March 3A | Zhongxing 6CASCSUCCESS
- 1993Tsiklon-3 | Strela-3 89 to 94VKSSUCCESS
- 1987Proton-K/DM | Gorizont 14CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 95CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Kosmos-3M | Parus 43CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Titan IIID | KH-9 17USAFSUCCESS
- 1978Delta 3914 | OTS 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1973Proton | Salyut-3aCCCPSUCCESS
- 1966Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 4CCCPSUCCESS
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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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Launch records are from The Space Devs’ Launch Library 2. Pictures are NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. Many of them belong to the photographer or a partner agency, so we only show the ones credited to NASA alone.