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16 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1962 and the latest in 2022.
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July 17 in spaceflight
16 launches flew on July 17, the earliest of them in 1962, and 16 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on July 17. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on July 17
1850
William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun.
William Cranch Bond ↗1975
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
Apollo–Soyuz ↗
Launches on July 17Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
16 launches
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- 2022Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-22SpXSUCCESS
- 2003Atlas V 521 | Rainbow 1LMTSUCCESS
- 1999Zenit-2 | Okean-ORFSASUCCESS
- 1991Pegasus HAPS | 7 microsatsOSCSUCCESS
- 1991Ariane 40 | ERS-1ASASUCCESS
- 1990Soyuz-U-PVB | Resurs-F2 5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 24CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Molniya-M | Molniya-3 37LCCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz T-12CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 43CCCPSUCCESS
- 1977Proton | TKS 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-I 16CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967R-36O 8K69 | OGCh 10CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Thor SLV-2A Agena D | P-770 Group 3-A 1USAFSUCCESS
- 1964Atlas Agena D | Vela 2A & 2BUSAFSUCCESS
- 1962X-15 | Flight 62USAFSUCCESS
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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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