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May 14 in spaceflight

24 launches flew on May 14, the earliest of them in 1966, and 23 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on May 14. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

ON RECORD

24MISSIONS

23 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1966 and the latest in 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

2ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1973.

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What happened on May 14

  1. 1973

    Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

    Skylab ↗

  2. 2010

    Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to deliver the first shuttle-launched Russian ISS component — Rassvet. This was originally slated to be the final launch of Atlantis, before Congress approved STS-135.

    Space Shuttle Atlantis ↗

Launches on May 14Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

24 launches

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  1. 2026Zhuque-2E Block 2 | Mass SimulatorLSSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-67SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2025Long March 2D | Space Computing ConstellationCASCSUCCESS
  4. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 8-7SpXSUCCESS
  5. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-9SpXSUCCESS
  6. 2022Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-15SpXSUCCESS
  7. 2013Proton-M Briz-M | Eutelsat 3D (W3D)ILSSUCCESS
  8. 2010Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-132USASUCCESS
  9. 2009Ariane 5 ECA | Herschel & PlanckASASUCCESS
  10. 2008Soyuz U | Progress M-64RFSASUCCESS
  11. 1998Soyuz U | Progress M-39RFSASUCCESS
  12. 1997Molniya-M | US-K 78PRSCSUCCESS
  13. 1996Soyuz U | Yantar-1KFT 18RFSAFAILURE
  14. 1995Titan 401A Centaur | Orion 3USAFSUCCESS
  15. 1992Delta II | Palapa B4USAFSUCCESS
  16. 1991Atlas E | NOAA 12USAFSUCCESS
  17. 1986Soyuz U | Zenit-8 31CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1984Soyuz U | Yantar-4KS1 2CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1982Tsiklon-2 | US-A 20CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1981Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-2 7CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1981Soyuz-U | Soyuz 40CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1980Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1B 2CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1973Saturn V | Skylab 1NASASUCCESS
  24. 1966Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 28USAFSUCCESS

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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.

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