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19 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1963 and the latest in 2026.
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July 19 in spaceflight
19 launches flew on July 19, the earliest of them in 1963, and 19 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on July 19. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on July 19
1963
Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
Joseph A. Walker ↗1977
The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal is transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time (ET).
Global Positioning System ↗2013
The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance (detail pictured), for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".
NASA ↗
Launches on July 19Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
19 launches
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- 2026Soyuz 2.1b | 16 x Rassvet-3RFSASUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-3SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Long March 4B | Gaofen-11-05CASCSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 2C | Yaogan-30-10CASCSUCCESS
- 2020H-IIA 202 | Hope (Emirates Mars Mission)MHISUCCESS
- 2013Long March 4C | Shijian 15, Shiyan 7 & ChuangXin 3CASCSUCCESS
- 2013Atlas V 551 | MUOS-2ULASUCCESS
- 2000Minotaur I | SindriOSCSUCCESS
- 1993Atlas II | DSCS-3 B9USAFSUCCESS
- 1985Soyuz U | Kosmos 1669CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 49LCCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 58CCCPSUCCESS
- 1977Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1 7CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Voskhod | Zenit-4M 39CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Thor Delta E1 | Explorer 35USAFSUCCESS
- 1965Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 22USAFSUCCESS
- 1963X-15 | Flight 90USAFSUCCESS
- 1963Atlas Agena B | Midas 9USAFSUCCESS
- 1963Thor Agena D | KH-4 23USAFSUCCESS
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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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