Launches
ON RECORD15MISSIONS
15 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1968 and the latest in 2025.
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1971 · 55 years ago today
The first orbit of another planet
Mariner 9 entered orbit around Mars and had to wait out a planet-wide dust storm before it could see anything.
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November 13 in spaceflight
15 launches flew on November 13, the earliest of them in 1968, and 15 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 13. 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 1833.
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What happened on November 13
Launches on November 13Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
15 launches
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- 2025New Glenn | EscaPADEBOSUCCESS
- 2024Long March 4B | Haiyang 4-01CASCSUCCESS
- 2021Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-1SpXSUCCESS
- 2020Atlas V 531 | NROL-101ULASUCCESS
- 2019Long March 6 | Ningxia 1 (x5)CASCSUCCESS
- 2019Kuaizhou 1A | Jilin-1-02AEPSUCCESS
- 1999Ariane 44LP | GE 4ASASUCCESS
- 1996Ariane 44L | Arabsat 2B & MEASAT 2ASASUCCESS
- 1990Titan 402A IUS | DSP 15USAFSUCCESS
- 1986Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 26CCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Kosmos-3M | Tsikada 14CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Soyuz U | Zenit-8 24CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 50CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Atlas SLV-3D Centaur | Einstein ObservatoryUSAFSUCCESS
- 1968Voskhod | Zenit-2 67CCCPSUCCESS
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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.