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16 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1958 and the latest in 2025.
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July 26 in spaceflight
18 launches flew on July 26, the earliest of them in 1958, and 16 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on July 26. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on July 26
1963
Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
Syncom ↗1971
Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Apollo program ↗2005
Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
Space Shuttle program ↗
Launches on July 26Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
18 launches
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-26SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Vega-C | CO3D & MicroCarbASASUCCESS
- 2023Long March 2D | Yaogan 36 Group 05CASCSUCCESS
- 2019Long March 2C | Yaogan-30-05CASCSUCCESS
- 2019Starship Hopper | 20m HopSpXSUCCESS
- 2018SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity PF03VGSUCCESS
- 2011Long March 3A | Compass-IGSO-4CASCSUCCESS
- 2008Soyuz 2.1b | Persona 1VKSSUCCESS
- 2006Dnepr | BelKAISCKFAILURE
- 2005Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-114USASUCCESS
- 1988Tsiklon-3 | Meteor-3 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 82CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Feng Bao 1 | JSSW 1CASCSUCCESS
- 1974Voskhod | Zenit-2M 49CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Saturn V | Apollo 15NASASUCCESS
- 1969Thor Delta M | INTELSAT III F-5USAFFAILURE
- 1963Thor Delta B | Syncom 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1958Juno-I | Explorer 4ABMASUCCESS
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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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