Launches
ON RECORD26MISSIONS
25 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1958 and the latest in 2026.
MARKED ON THIS DATE
1984 · 42 years ago today
The first woman to walk in space
Svetlana Savitskaya spent three and a half hours outside Salyut 7 cutting and welding metal.
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July 25 in spaceflight
26 launches flew on July 25, the earliest of them in 1958, and 25 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on July 25. 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 1973.
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What happened on July 25
1976
The orbiting spacecraft Viking 1 took a photograph of an apparent face on Mars in a classic example of pareidolia.
Viking 1 ↗1984
Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
Salyut 7 ↗
Launches on July 25Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
26 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-51SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 3 & 4RFSASUCCESS
- 2020Long March 4B | Ziyuan-3-03CASCSUCCESS
- 2019Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX CRS-18SpXSUCCESS
- 2019Hyperbola-1 | Maiden Flighti-SpaceSUCCESS
- 2018Falcon 9 Block 5 | Iridium-7SpXSUCCESS
- 2018Ariane 5 ES | Galileo L10 (FOC FM19-FM22)ASASUCCESS
- 2015Long March 3B / YZ-1 | BDS M1-S & BDS M2-SCASCSUCCESS
- 2013Ariane 5 ECA | Alphasat I-XL (Inmarsat-XL) & INSAT-3DASASUCCESS
- 2013SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF25VGSUCCESS
- 2012Long March 3C | Tianlian 1-03CASCSUCCESS
- 2004Long March 2C/SM | Tan Ce 2CASCSUCCESS
- 2002Proton-K/17S40 | Araks-N 2KhSCSUCCESS
- 1999Delta 7420-10C | Globalstar 26,28,43,48USAFSUCCESS
- 1996Atlas II | UHF F/O F7LMTSUCCESS
- 1990Atlas I | CRRESGDSUCCESS
- 1990Molniya 8K78M-PVB | US-K 65CCCPSUCCESS
- 1989Kosmos-3M | Parus 67CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Proton | Almaz-T 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKM 32CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 71CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Voskhod | Zenit-4M 61CCCPSUCCESS
- 1973Proton | Mars-5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1973Voskhod | Zenit-4M 52CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Thor SLV-2A Agena D | Multigroup 2 & Setter 1BUSAFSUCCESS
- 1958Project Pilot | NOTS 1USNFAILURE
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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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