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July 27 in spaceflight

18 launches flew on July 27, the earliest of them in 1967, and 13 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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18MISSIONS

13 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1967 and the latest in 2025.

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Launches on July 27Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

18 launches

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  1. 2025Long March 6A | SatNet LEO Group 05CASCSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-2SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-9SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2022Kinetica 1 | Maiden FlightCASSUCCESS
  5. 2019MOMO | Flight 4ISTECHFAILURE
  6. 2017Simorgh | UnknownISAFAILURE
  7. 2013Soyuz-U | Progress M-20M (52P)RFSASUCCESS
  8. 1992Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-15RFSASUCCESS
  9. 1988Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F43 30L 3CCCPFAILURE
  10. 1984Soyuz U | Zenit-8 4CCCPSUCCESS
  11. 1982Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 63CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1979Feng Bao 1 | Shi Jian 2CASCFAILURE
  13. 1979Soyuz U | Zenit-2M/NKh 4CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1978Kosmos-3M | Zaliv 26CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1977Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 3CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1976Kosmos-3M | DS-U3-IK 6CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1976Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 32CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1967Atlas D | OV1-11,12,86USAFFAILURE

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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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Launch records are from The Space Devs’ Launch Library 2. Pictures are NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. Many of them belong to the photographer or a partner agency, so we only show the ones credited to NASA alone.

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