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10 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1959 and the latest in 2024.
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November 7 in spaceflight
10 launches flew on November 7, the earliest of them in 1959, and 10 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 7. 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 1492.
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What happened on November 7
1492
The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
Ensisheim meteorite ↗1996
NASA launched Mars Global Surveyor from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Launches on November 7Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
10 launches
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- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-77SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-18 (S.S. Sally Ride)NGSSSUCCESS
- 2020PSLV-DL | EOS-01 (RISAT-2BR2)ISROSUCCESS
- 2020Ceres-1 | Tianqi-11GESUCCESS
- 2018Soyuz STB/Fregat-MT | MetOp-CASASUCCESS
- 2013Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-11MRFSASUCCESS
- 1996Delta II | Mars Global SurveyorUSAFSUCCESS
- 1967Atlas SLV-3C Centaur | Surveyor 6USAFSUCCESS
- 1964Nike Cajun | Trailblazer PelletNASASUCCESS
- 1959Thor Agena A | Discoverer 7USAFSUCCESS
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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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