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28 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1962 and the latest in 2026.
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June 23 in spaceflight
28 launches flew on June 23, the earliest of them in 1962, and 28 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on June 23. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on June 23
1994
NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
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Launches on June 23Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
28 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Project Starfall Demonstration MissionSpXSUCCESS
- 2026Long March 7A | TJSW-26ACASCSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 14 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (KA-02)ULASUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-23SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-2SpXSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-12SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Long March 2D | Yaogan 35 Group 02CASCSUCCESS
- 2020Long March 3B | Beidou-3 G3CASCSUCCESS
- 2017Falcon 9 Full Thrust | BulgariaSat-1SpXSUCCESS
- 2017Soyuz 2.1v/Volga | Kosmos-2519VKSSUCCESS
- 2017PSLV XL | Cartosat-2EISROSUCCESS
- 2015Soyuz | Persona (Kosmos 2506)VKOSUCCESS
- 2015Vega | Sentinel-2AASASUCCESS
- 2011SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF14VGSUCCESS
- 2005Zenit | Intelsat IA-8SLSUCCESS
- 2004Delta II | GPS IIR-12USAFSUCCESS
- 1992Soyuz-U-PVB | Resurs-F 15VKSSUCCESS
- 1990Commercial Titan III | Intelsat 604MMSUCCESS
- 1988Soyuz U | Zenit-8 65CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Kosmos-3M | Tsikada 16CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Atlas F | NOAA 7USAFSUCCESS
- 1977Atlas F/SVS | NTS 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1972Voskhod | Zenit-4M 37CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 5 (17L)CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 19CCCPSUCCESS
- 1962Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 6USAFSUCCESS
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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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