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21 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1964 and the latest in 2024.
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June 6 in spaceflight
21 launches flew on June 6, the earliest of them in 1964, and 21 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on June 6. 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 1971.
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What happened on June 6
1971
Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June.
Soyuz 11 ↗2002
Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2002 Eastern Mediterranean event ↗
Launches on June 6Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
21 launches
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- 2024Starship | Integrated Flight Test 4SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Ceres-1 | 3 satellitesGESUCCESS
- 2021Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-8SpXSUCCESS
- 2018Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-09RFSASUCCESS
- 2003Proton-K/Briz-M | AMC 9KhSCSUCCESS
- 2000Proton-K/Briz-M | Gorizont 33KhSCSUCCESS
- 1997Proton-K/17S40 | Araks-N 1KhSCSUCCESS
- 1986Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 23CCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 305-312CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz T-13CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Molniya-M | US-K 34CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Kosmos-3M | DS-P1-M 16CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 7CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 12LCCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Thor DSV-2U | DMSP-5D1 F4USAFSUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz U | Soyuz-34CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Titan 24B | KH-8 42USAFSUCCESS
- 1974Voskhod | Zenit-2M 48CCCPSUCCESS
- 1973Voskhod | Zenit-4M 49CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Soyuz | Soyuz 11CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-MT 2CCCPSUCCESS
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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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