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22 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1963 and the latest in 2025.
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November 27 in spaceflight
23 launches flew on November 27, the earliest of them in 1963, and 22 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 27. 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 1971.
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What happened on November 27
1971
The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
Soviet space program ↗1985
Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-61-B, with Rodolfo Neri Vela becoming the first Mexican astronaut.
Space Shuttle program ↗2001
Astronomers announced the detection of sodium in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458 b (artist's impression pictured), the first exoplanet atmosphere to be measured.
Sodium ↗2001
A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
Hydrogen ↗
Launches on November 27Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
23 launches
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- 2025Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-28RFSASUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-76SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Zhuque-2E | Guangchuan-01 & 02LSSUCCESS
- 2022Long March 2D | Yaogan 36 Group 03CASCSUCCESS
- 2019Long March 4C | Gaofen-12CASCSUCCESS
- 2019PSLV-XL | Cartosat-3 & othersISROSUCCESS
- 2012Long March 3B/E | Zhongxing 12 / SupremeSAT-ICASCSUCCESS
- 2001Ariane 44LP | DirecTV-4SASASUCCESS
- 1997H-II | TRMM & ETS 7JAXASUCCESS
- 1992Proton | Gorizont 27KhSCSUCCESS
- 1991Kosmos-3M | Parus 74CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-61-BLSOCSUCCESS
- 1984Tsiklon-3 | Meteor-3 1aCCCPFAILURE
- 1980Molniya-M | US-K 18CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Soyuz-U | Soyuz T-3CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Vostok 8A92M | Tselina-D 22CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Voskhod | Zenit-2M 53CCCPSUCCESS
- 1973Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 21CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Molniya-M | Molniya-1 16CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 31CCCPSUCCESS
- 1963Thor SLV-2 Agena D | KH-4 25USAFSUCCESS
- 1963Atlas Centaur | AC-2 Instrumentation RingUSAFSUCCESS
- 1963Thor Delta C | Explorer 18USAFSUCCESS
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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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