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23 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1966 and the latest in 2026.
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2015 · 11 years ago today
New Horizons at Pluto
New Horizons crossed the Pluto system at fourteen kilometres a second and found a plain of nitrogen ice with no craters on it.
read more1965 · 61 years ago today
The first close pictures of Mars
Mariner 4 returned twenty-one photographs of a cratered surface, ending a century of speculation about canals.
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July 14 in spaceflight
24 launches flew on July 14, the earliest of them in 1966, and 23 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on July 14. 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 1965.
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What happened on July 14
1965
Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
Mariner 4 ↗2015
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
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Launches on July 14Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
24 launches
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- 2026Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-29RFSASUCCESS
- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-45SpXSUCCESS
- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-14SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Long March 7 | Tianzhou-9CASCSUCCESS
- 2023LVM-3 | Chandrayaan-3ISROSUCCESS
- 2017Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat | Kanopus-V-IKRFSAPARTIAL
- 2014Falcon 9 v1.1 | Orbcomm OG2 Mission 1SpXSUCCESS
- 2009Falcon 1 | RazakSATSpXSUCCESS
- 2000Atlas IIAS | Echostar VILMTSUCCESS
- 1994Kosmos-3M | Nadezhda 7NPSUCCESS
- 1993Soyuz-U-PVB | Yantar-4K2 70VKSSUCCESS
- 1992Proton | Gorizont 26KhSCSUCCESS
- 1988Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1 21CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1B 10CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Atlas E/SGS-2 | GPS 8USAFSUCCESS
- 1980Proton-K/DM | EkranCCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 41CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Delta 2914 | Geos 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1977Delta 2914 | HimawariUSAFSUCCESS
- 1976Soyuz U | Zenit-2M 69CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Atlas F/PTS | NTS 1USAFSUCCESS
- 1967Atlas Centaur D | Surveyor 4USAFSUCCESS
- 1966Voskhod | Zenit-2 40CCCPSUCCESS
- 1966Atlas D | OV1-7USAFSUCCESS
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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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