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19 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1969 and the latest in 2026.
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1958 · 68 years ago today
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October 1 in spaceflight
19 launches flew on October 1, the earliest of them in 1969, and 19 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on October 1. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1958.
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What happened on October 1
1958
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ↗
Launches on October 1Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
19 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)SpXSUCCESS
- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-13SpXSUCCESS
- 2025HASTE | JUSTINRLSUCCESS
- 2022Firefly Alpha | FLTA002 (To The Black)FASUCCESS
- 2015Soyuz-U | Progress M-29M (61P)RFSASUCCESS
- 2010Long March 3C | Chang'e 2CASCSUCCESS
- 2009Ariane 5 ECA | Amazonas 2 & COMSATBw-1ASASUCCESS
- 2008Dnepr | ThaichoteISCKSUCCESS
- 2005Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-7RFSASUCCESS
- 2003Zenit | Galaxy 13SLSUCCESS
- 2000Proton-K/DM-2M | GE-1AKhSCSUCCESS
- 1990Delta 6925 | GPS-2 9USAFSUCCESS
- 1990Soyuz-U | Orlets-1 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Proton | Potok 4CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 48CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Titan IIIC | Vortex 9USAFSUCCESS
- 1975Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 51CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Voskhod | Zenit-2M 12CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Scout B | ESRO 1B (Boreas)ESROSUCCESS
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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.