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22 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1962 and the latest in 2024.
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August 2 in spaceflight
23 launches flew on August 2, the earliest of them in 1962, and 22 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on August 2. 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 1991.
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What happened on August 2
1991
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-43 to deploy the TDRS-5 satellite.
Space Shuttle Atlantis ↗
Launches on August 2Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
23 launches
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- 2024Electron | Owl for One, One for Owl (StriX Launch 5)RLSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-6SpXSUCCESS
- 2023Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-19 (S.S. Laurel Clark)NGSSSUCCESS
- 2017Vega | OptSat 3000 & VENµS (VENUS)ASASUCCESS
- 2014Atlas V 401 | GPS IIF-7 (USA-256)ULASUCCESS
- 2012Ariane 5 ECA | Intelsat 20 & HYLAS 2ASASUCCESS
- 2012SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF20VGSUCCESS
- 2007Soyuz U | Progress M-61RFSASUCCESS
- 2005Long March 2C | Fanhui Shi Weixing (21)CASCSUCCESS
- 1998Pegasus XL HAPS | Orbcomm-B1 - B8OSCSUCCESS
- 1995Molniya-M | Interbol-1PRSCSUCCESS
- 1994Kosmos-3M | Obzor TestNPSUCCESS
- 1993Titan 403A | SLDCOM 3USAFFAILURE
- 1991Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-43LSOCSUCCESS
- 1990Delta 6925 | GPS-2 8USAFSUCCESS
- 1989Soyuz U | Zenit-8 85CCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F40 60L 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Soyuz U | Zenit-8 20CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984N-2 | Himawari 3NASDASUCCESS
- 1984Molniya-M | US-K 36CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Voskhod | Zenit-4M 40CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Apollo LM | Apollo 15NASASUCCESS
- 1962Thor Agena D | KH-4 10USAFSUCCESS
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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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