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10 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1968 and the latest in 2026.
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July 11 in spaceflight
12 launches flew on July 11, the earliest of them in 1968, and 10 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 6 spaceflight and astronomy events on July 11. 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 1735.
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What happened on July 11
1735
Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
Dwarf planet ↗1801
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons co-discovered the first of his 37 comets, more than any other person in history.
Jean-Louis Pons ↗1962
Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
Apollo program ↗1979
America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
Skylab ↗2021
Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.
Virgin Galactic ↗
Launches on July 11Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
12 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-48SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Black Brant IX | DEUCEELASUCCESS
- 2022Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 3-1SpXSUCCESS
- 2021SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity 22VGSUCCESS
- 2019Vega | Falcon Eye 1ASAFAILURE
- 2011Long March 3C | Tianlian 1-02CASCSUCCESS
- 1990Soyuz-U | GammaCCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 39CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-2 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 70CCCPFAILURE
- 1973Molniya-M | Molniya-2 6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968Atlas F | OV1-15USAFSUCCESS
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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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