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15 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1965 and the latest in 2025.
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July 13 in spaceflight
17 launches flew on July 13, the earliest of them in 1965, and 15 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on July 13. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on July 13
1995
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-70 to deploy the TDRS-7 satellite.
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Launches on July 13Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
17 launches
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dror-1SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Vega-C | LARES-2 (Maiden flight)ESASUCCESS
- 2022Electron | Wise One Looks Ahead (NROL-162)RLSUCCESS
- 2019Proton-M/Blok DM-03 | Spektr-RGKhSCSUCCESS
- 2014Antares 120 | Cygnus CRS Orb-2 (S.S. Janice Voss)OSCSUCCESS
- 2011Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat | 6 x Globalstar-2SSASUCCESS
- 1995Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-70LSOCSUCCESS
- 1992Tsiklon-3 | Strela-3 79 to 82VKSSUCCESS
- 1988ASLV | SROSS-BISROFAILURE
- 1983Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 81CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKT 21CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKT 11CCCPSUCCESS
- 1977Kosmos-3M | Parus 9CCCPSUCCESS
- 1973Titan IIID | KH-9 6USAFSUCCESS
- 1972Soyuz 11A511M | Zenit-4MT 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Proton | Luna-15CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 29CCCPFAILURE
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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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