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19 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1969 and the latest in 2026.
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July 3 in spaceflight
21 launches flew on July 3, the earliest of them in 1969, and 19 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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- 2026Pegasus XL | Swift Boost MissionNGSSSUCCESS
- 2025Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-31 (92P)RFSASUCCESS
- 2025Long March 4C | Shiyan 28 B-01CASCSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 8-9SpXSUCCESS
- 2021MOMO | Flight 7ISTECHSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 2D | Jilin-1 Wideband-01B & High Resolution 03DCASCSUCCESS
- 2020Long March 4B | Gaofen MultimodeCASCSUCCESS
- 2015Soyuz U | Progress M-28M (60P)RFSASUCCESS
- 2014Rokot / Briz-KM | Gonets-M18, Gonets-M19, Gonets-M20VKOSUCCESS
- 2002Delta 7425-9.5 | ContourUSAFSUCCESS
- 1998M-V | NozomiISASSUCCESS
- 1996Long March 3 | Apstar 1ACASCSUCCESS
- 1996Titan 405A | Quasar 11USAFSUCCESS
- 1994Long March 2D | Fanhui Shi Weixing (16)CASCSUCCESS
- 1992Scout G-1 | SAMPEXNASASUCCESS
- 1990Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 53CCCPFAILURE
- 1985Soyuz U | Zenit-8 18CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Molniya-M | US-K 35CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 46CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Soyuz | Soyuz 14CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969N1 | Zond-M 2CCCPFAILURE
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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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