Launches
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14 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1963 and the latest in 2025.
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1967 · 59 years ago today
The first Saturn V
Apollo 4 flew the Saturn V for the first time, uncrewed, and shook the press stands three miles away.
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November 9 in spaceflight
15 launches flew on November 9, the earliest of them in 1963, and 14 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 9. 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 1967.
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What happened on November 9
1967
Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.
Apollo program ↗2005
The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Venus Express ↗
Launches on November 9Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
15 launches
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-51SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Kinetica 1 | Chutian-2 01 & 02CASSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-10SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Long March 2C | PIESAT-2 01-04CASCSUCCESS
- 2023Long March 3B/E | ChinaSat 6ECASCSUCCESS
- 2021Epsilon | RAISE-2 & othersJAXASUCCESS
- 2016Long March 11 | Xiaoxiang-1, XPNAV-1 & 3 others.CASCSUCCESS
- 2011Long March 4B | Yaogan 12 & Tianxun-1CASCSUCCESS
- 2005Soyuz-FG | Venus ExpressRFSASUCCESS
- 1997Delta II | Iridium 38 to 43USAFSUCCESS
- 1985Molniya-M | US-K 45CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Thor Burner 2A | DSAP-5B F3USAFSUCCESS
- 1970Scout B | OFONASASUCCESS
- 1967Saturn V | Apollo 4NASASUCCESS
- 1963Thor SLV-2 Agena D | KH-4 24 & RM 5USAFFAILURE
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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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