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20 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1970 and the latest in 2025.
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November 17 in spaceflight
21 launches flew on November 17, the earliest of them in 1970, and 20 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 17. 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 1970.
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What happened on November 17
1970
Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
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Launches on November 17Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
21 launches
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sentinel-6BSpXSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Optus-X/TD7SpXSUCCESS
- 2020Vega | SEOSAT-Ingenio & TaranisASAFAILURE
- 2019Kuaizhou 1A | KL-AlphaEPSUCCESS
- 2018Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS NG-10 (S.S. John Young)NGSSSUCCESS
- 2016Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-03RFSASUCCESS
- 2016Ariane 5 ES | Galileo L8 (FOC FM07 & FM12-FM14)ASASUCCESS
- 2015Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat | EKS (Tundra) (Kosmos 2510)VKSSUCCESS
- 2010SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF03VGSUCCESS
- 2007Proton-M Briz-M | Sirius 4KhSCSUCCESS
- 2006Delta II | GPS IIR-16(M)USAFSUCCESS
- 1995Proton | Gals 2KhSCSUCCESS
- 1995Ariane 44P | ISOASASUCCESS
- 1992Zenit-2 | Tselina-2 11RFSASUCCESS
- 1989Soyuz U | Yantar-4KS1 13CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 88CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Titan IIID | KH-11 5USAFSUCCESS
- 1981Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 51CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Soyuz U | Soyuz 20CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 47CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Kosmos-3M | DS-U2-IPCCCPSUCCESS
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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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