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18 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1959 and the latest in 2023.
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August 7 in spaceflight
19 launches flew on August 7, the earliest of them in 1959, and 18 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on August 7. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on August 7
1959
Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Explorers Program ↗1997
Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Space Shuttle program ↗
Launches on August 7Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
19 launches
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- 2023Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Glonass-K2 No. 13 (Kosmos 2569)VKSSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-8SpXSUCCESS
- 2022SSLV | EOS-02 (Microsat-2A) (Demo 1)ISROFAILURE
- 2020Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 9SpXSUCCESS
- 2018Falcon 9 Block 5 | Merah Putih (Telkom-4)SpXSUCCESS
- 2012SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF21VGSUCCESS
- 1997Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-85USASUCCESS
- 1985Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 57LCCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Tsiklon-2 | US-P 19CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Vostok 8A92M | Bulgaria 1300CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Soyuz U | Progress 3CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 29CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Atlas F | LOADS 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1970Voskhod | Zenit-4 76CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-IK 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Proton / UR-500 K/D | Zond 7CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4B 4USAFSUCCESS
- 1967Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4A 43USAFSUCCESS
- 1959Thor Able III | Explorer 6USAFSUCCESS
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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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