Launches
ON RECORD25MISSIONS
22 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1958 and the latest in 2025.
MARKED ON THIS DATE
1968 · 58 years ago today
Apollo 7 flies
Apollo 7 carried the first Apollo crew to orbit, twenty-one months after the fire that killed the crew of Apollo 1.
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October 11 in spaceflight
25 launches flew on October 11, the earliest of them in 1958, and 22 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 6 spaceflight and astronomy events on October 11. 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 1958.
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What happened on October 11
1958
NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
Pioneer 1 ↗1968
Apollo 7, the first manned mission of NASA's Apollo program, and the first three-man American space mission, launched from Complex 34 in Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Apollo 7 ↗1984
Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan (pictured) became the first American woman to perform a space walk.
Space Shuttle Challenger ↗1984
Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
Kathryn D. Sullivan ↗2018
Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.
Soyuz MS-10 ↗
Launches on October 11Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
25 launches
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- 2025Gravity-1 | 3 satellitesOrienSpaceSUCCESS
- 2020Long March 3B/E | Gaofen 13CASCSUCCESS
- 2019Pegasus XL | Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON)NGSSSUCCESS
- 2018Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-10RFSAFAILURE
- 2017Falcon 9 Full Thrust | Echostar 105/SES-11SpXSUCCESS
- 2007Atlas V 421 | WGS-1ULASUCCESS
- 2001Atlas IIAS | NROL-12LMTSUCCESS
- 2000Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-92LSOCSUCCESS
- 1995Proton | Luch 2KhSCSUCCESS
- 1994Tsiklon-3 | Okean-O1 7VKSSUCCESS
- 1993Soyuz U | Progress M-20RFSASUCCESS
- 1988Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 66CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Kosmos-3M | Parus 46CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 22CCCPSUCCESS
- 1977Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 4CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 58CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Soyuz | Soyuz 6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968Saturn IB | Apollo 7NASASUCCESS
- 1968Voskhod | Zenit-2 66CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Voskhod | Zenit-2 55CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Thor Burner 2 | DSAP-4A F4USAFSUCCESS
- 1960Atlas Agena A | Samos 1USAFFAILURE
- 1958Vostok-L 8K72 | Luna-1bCCCPFAILURE
- 1958Thor Able I | Pioneer 1ABMASUCCESS
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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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