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14 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1962 and the latest in 2026.
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August 11 in spaceflight
14 launches flew on August 11, the earliest of them in 1962, and 14 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on August 11. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on August 11
1962
Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
Vostok 3 and 4 ↗1969
The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon.
Apollo 11 ↗
Launches on August 11Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
14 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-19SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Amazon Leo (KF-02)SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Electron | A Sky Full of SARs (Capella Acadia 3)RLSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-9SpXSUCCESS
- 2012SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF22VGSUCCESS
- 2011Long March 3B/E | Paksat-1RCASCSUCCESS
- 2009Proton-M | Asiasat 5KhSCSUCCESS
- 2006Ariane 5 ECA | JCSAT-10 & Syracuse 3BASASUCCESS
- 2005Ariane 5 GS | Thaicom 4ASASUCCESS
- 2004Soyuz U | Progress M-50RFSASUCCESS
- 1994Proton | Uragan 57 to 59KhSCSUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKM 33CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Atlas Centaur D | Surveyor-SD 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1962Vostok-K | Vostok 3CCCPSUCCESS
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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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