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15 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1960 and the latest in 2025.
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December 1 in spaceflight
18 launches flew on December 1, the earliest of them in 1960, and 15 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on December 1. 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 1984.
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What happened on December 1
1984
NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
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Launches on December 1Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
18 launches
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- 2025Vega-C | KOMPSAT-7ASASUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-86SpXSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | 425 Project Flight 1 & rideshareSpXSUCCESS
- 2023Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-25 (86P)RFSASUCCESS
- 2016Soyuz-U | Progress MS-04 (65P)RFSAFAILURE
- 2013Long March 3B | Chang'e 3 & YutuCASCSUCCESS
- 2011Long March 3A | Compass-IGSO-5CASCSUCCESS
- 2008Long March 2D | Yaogan Weixing 4CASCSUCCESS
- 2001Proton | Uragan 78, 79 & Uragan-M 1KhSCSUCCESS
- 2000Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-97USASUCCESS
- 1994Ariane 42P | PAS 3ASAFAILURE
- 1992Ariane 42P | Superbird A1ASASUCCESS
- 1990Atlas E | DMSP-5D2 F10USAFSUCCESS
- 1989Proton-K/D-1 | GranatCCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 43CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 30CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-2 2CCCPFAILURE
- 1960Vostok 8K72 | Korabl'-Sputnik-3CCCPSUCCESS
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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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