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June 21 in spaceflight

26 launches flew on June 21, the earliest of them in 1966, and 21 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on June 21. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

ON RECORD

26MISSIONS

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

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

3ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1993.

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What happened on June 21

  1. 1993

    Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-57 to retrieve the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) satellite. It is also the first shuttle mission to carry the Spacehab module.

    Space Shuttle Endeavour ↗

  2. 2004

    SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

    SpaceShipOne ↗

  3. 2006

    Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.

    Pluto ↗

Launches on June 21Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

26 launches

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  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-28SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2022Nuri | Flight Test 2KARISUCCESS
  3. 2011Soyuz-U | Progress M-11M (43P)RFSASUCCESS
  4. 2011SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF13VGSUCCESS
  5. 2010Dnepr 1 | TanDEM-XISCKSUCCESS
  6. 2009Zenit | Measat 3ASLSUCCESS
  7. 2006Delta II | MITExUSAFSUCCESS
  8. 2005Volna | Cosmos-1Makeyev Rocket Design BureauFAILURE
  9. 2005Molniya-M | Molniya-3KPRSCFAILURE
  10. 1993Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-57LSOCSUCCESS
  11. 1990Molniya-M | US-K 64CCCPFAILURE
  12. 1989Proton | Raduga-1 1CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1988Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 45CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1985Zenit-2 | GVM Tselina-2CCCPFAILURE
  15. 1985Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 55LCCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1985Soyuz U | Progress 24CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1984Kosmos-3M | Nadezhda 3CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1980Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 47CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1978Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 18CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1975Delta 1910 | OSO 8USAFSUCCESS
  21. 1974Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 24CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1973Voskhod | Zenit-2M 39CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1972Voskhod | Zenit-2M 29CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1969Thor Delta E1 | IMP GUSAFFAILURE
  25. 1968Voskhod | Zenit-2M 2CCCPSUCCESS
  26. 1966Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 34USAFSUCCESS

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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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