Launches
ON RECORD23MISSIONS
22 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1963 and the latest in 2026.
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2020 · 6 years ago today
Perseverance departs
Perseverance and the helicopter Ingenuity left Cape Canaveral for Jezero Crater.
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July 30 in spaceflight
23 launches flew on July 30, the earliest of them in 1963, and 22 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on July 30. 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 1971.
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What happened on July 30
1971
Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
Apollo program ↗2020
NASA's Mars 2020 mission is launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Mars 2020 ↗
Launches on July 30Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
23 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-95SpXSUCCESS
- 2026Long March 6A | TJSW-27A & BCASCSUCCESS
- 2025GSLV Mk II | NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)ISROSUCCESS
- 2025Long March 8A | SatNet LEO Group 06CASCSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-29SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Atlas V 551 | USSF-51ULASUCCESS
- 2023PSLV-CA | DS-SARISROSUCCESS
- 2021Ariane 5 ECA+ | Star One D2 & Eutelsat QuantumASASUCCESS
- 2020Proton-M/Briz-M | Ekspress-80 & Ekspress-103KhSCSUCCESS
- 2020Atlas V 541 | Mars 2020 (Perseverance rover & Ingenuity helicopter)ULASUCCESS
- 2019Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M | Meridian-M No.18VKSSUCCESS
- 2017MOMO | 1st Test FlightISTECHFAILURE
- 1992Soyuz-U-PVB | Zenit-8 100VKSSUCCESS
- 1992Proton | Uragan 48 to 50KhSCSUCCESS
- 1990Tsiklon-3 | Geo-IK 12CCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Molniya-M | Molniya-1T 67CCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Zenit-2 | GVM Tselina-2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Proton-K/DM | Raduga 9CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Voskhod | Zenit-2M 21CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968Voskhod | Zenit-4 45CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Saturn I | Pegasus 3NASASUCCESS
- 1964Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-P1-Yu 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1963Blue Scout Jr | OAR 22-1USAFSUCCESS
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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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