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15 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1964 and the latest in 2025.
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June 13 in spaceflight
16 launches flew on June 13, the earliest of them in 1964, and 15 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on June 13. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on June 13
1983
Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
Pioneer 10 ↗2010
A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.
Hayabusa ↗
Launches on June 13Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
16 launches
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-26SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-6SpXSUCCESS
- 2021Pegasus XL | Odyssey (TacRL-2)NGSSSUCCESS
- 2020MOMO | Flight 5ISTECHFAILURE
- 2020Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 8SpXSUCCESS
- 2020Electron | Don't Stop Me Now (Rideshare)RLSUCCESS
- 2012Pegasus XL | Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)OSCSUCCESS
- 1991Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-R 3CCCPSUCCESS
- 1990Molniya-M | Molniya-3 47LCCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Soyuz U | Zenit-8 16CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Atlas E/SGS-2 | GPS 9USAFSUCCESS
- 1974Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 27CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Atlas SLV-3C Centaur | INTELSAT IV F5USAFSUCCESS
- 1970Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-GK 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968Titan IIIC | IDCSP 20 to 27USAFSUCCESS
- 1964Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-5 11USAFSUCCESS
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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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