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15 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1962 and the latest in 2025.
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June 2 in spaceflight
15 launches flew on June 2, the earliest of them in 1962, and 15 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on June 2. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on June 2
1966
Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
Surveyor program ↗1998
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-91, the final mission of the Shuttle-Mir program.
Space Shuttle Discovery ↗2003
Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
Mars ↗
Launches on June 2Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
15 launches
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- 2025Electron | Full Stream Ahead (BlackSky Gen-3 2)RLSUCCESS
- 2022Long March 2C | Geely Constellation Group 01CASCSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 3B | Fengyun-4BCASCSUCCESS
- 2018Long March 2D | Gaofen 6 & Luojia-1CASCSUCCESS
- 2010Long March 3C | Compass-G3CASCSUCCESS
- 2010Rokot / Briz-KM | SERVIS-2ELSSUCCESS
- 2003Soyuz-FG | Mars ExpressRFSASUCCESS
- 1998Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-91LSOCSUCCESS
- 1983Proton-K/D-1 | Venera-15CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 59CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Scout D-1 | Ariel 6SERCSUCCESS
- 1978Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 40CCCPSUCCESS
- 1976Kosmos-3M | Zaliv 21CCCPSUCCESS
- 1976Titan 34B | Quasar 1USAFSUCCESS
- 1962Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 5USAFSUCCESS
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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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