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14 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1961 and the latest in 2022.
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November 1 in spaceflight
16 launches flew on November 1, the earliest of them in 1961, and 14 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on November 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 1963.
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What happened on November 1
1963
The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
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Launches on November 1Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
16 launches
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- 2022Falcon Heavy | USSF-44SpXSUCCESS
- 2018Long March 3B | Beidou-3 G1CASCSUCCESS
- 2016SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity CC02VGPARTIAL
- 2007Kosmos-3M | SAR-Lupe 3NPSUCCESS
- 1994Delta 7925-10 | WindUSAFSUCCESS
- 1994Ariane 42P | Astra 1DASASUCCESS
- 1979Kosmos-3M | AUOS-Z-R-P-IK 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Soyuz U | Zenit-4MT 14CCCPSUCCESS
- 1976Soyuz U | Zenit-2M 72CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Voskhod | Zenit-2M 52CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 33-40CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968Tsiklon-2A | I2P 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1966X-15 | Flight 174USAFSUCCESS
- 1963Sputnik 11A59 | PolyotCCCPSUCCESS
- 1962Molniya 8K78 | Mars 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1961Blue Scout II | Mercury-Scout 1NASAFAILURE
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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.