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13 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1965 and the latest in 2025.
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November 19 in spaceflight
13 launches flew on November 19, the earliest of them in 1965, and 13 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 19. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
Recorded events
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What happened on November 19
1969
Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
Apollo program ↗1996
Space Shuttle program: Columbia is launched on STS-80, which would become the longest mission in the program at 17 days. On this mission, astronaut Story Musgrave becomes the only astronaut to fly on all five space shuttles.
Space Shuttle program ↗
Launches on November 19Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
13 launches
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- 2025Long March 2C | Shijian 30 A-CCASCSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-94SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Starship | Integrated Flight Test 6SpXSUCCESS
- 2018Long March 2D | Shiyan 6, Jiading-1 (OKW-1) & othersCASCSUCCESS
- 2016Atlas V 541 | GOES-RULASUCCESS
- 1999Long March 2F | Shenzhou-1CASCSUCCESS
- 1997Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-87USASUCCESS
- 1996Soyuz U | Progress M-33RFSASUCCESS
- 1996Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-80USASUCCESS
- 1978Delta 2914 | NATO 3CUSAFSUCCESS
- 1971Voskhod | Zenit-4M 26CCCPSUCCESS
- 1966Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 43CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Scout X-4 | Solrad 8NASASUCCESS
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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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