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November 6 in spaceflight

18 launches flew on November 6, the earliest of them in 1964, and 18 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

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18MISSIONS

18 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1964 and the latest in 2025.

Recorded events

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Pictures from this date

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Launches on November 6Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

18 launches

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  1. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-14SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-81SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2021Long March 2D | Yaogan 35 A/B/CCASCSUCCESS
  4. 2020Long March 6 | Satellogic x 10CASCSUCCESS
  5. 2014Dnepr 1 | ASNAROISCKSUCCESS
  6. 2010Delta II 7420-10 | COSMO-SkyMed 4ULASUCCESS
  7. 2004Delta II | GPS IIR-13USAFSUCCESS
  8. 2004Long March 4B | Zi Yuan 2-3CASCSUCCESS
  9. 1998Delta II | Iridium 83 to 87USAFSUCCESS
  10. 1997Delta II | GPS IIA-19USAFSUCCESS
  11. 1995Titan 401A Centaur | Milstar 2USAFSUCCESS
  12. 1988Titan 34D | KH-11 9USAFSUCCESS
  13. 1973Delta 0300 | NOAA 3USAFSUCCESS
  14. 1970Titan IIIC | DSP 1USAFSUCCESS
  15. 1968Titan IIIB | KH-8 17USAFSUCCESS
  16. 1966Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | Lunar Orbiter 2USAFSUCCESS
  17. 1965Thor Delta E | GEOS AUSAFSUCCESS
  18. 1964Scout X-4 | Explorer 23NASASUCCESS

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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.

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