2005 Deep Impact spacecraft is launched from Cape Canaveral
1997 Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov, launched
1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
1997 DMSP Titan 2 launched
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
1996 NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
1996 Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit
1996 M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched
1996 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
1995 CNN/fn, the financial network by Turner Enterprises, launched
1995 Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit
1995 U.S. space shuttle Discovery launched
1994 Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir
1994 Atlantis 13 launched
1994 U.S. space probe Clementine launched
1994 U.S. space probe Clementine launched
1992 U.S. Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
1992 Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
1992 Intelsat K launched
1992 U.S. space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1991 U.S. 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 launched
1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched
1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched
1991 Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn and Queens
1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
1990 Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
1990 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
1989 U.S. Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-28 launched
1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-30 launched
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-29 launched
1988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
1988 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
1988 U.S. space shuttle STS-26 launched
1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran
1987 Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov launched
1987 Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)
1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)
1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
1985 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
1984 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
1984 Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
1984 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1984 Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission Columbia 6 is launched
1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched
1983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock
1983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
1983 Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California
1983 Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
1982 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by U.S. Delta rocket
1982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search and rescue satellite, launched
1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 Satellites China 10 and 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket
1981 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
1980 Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1979 1st Ariane-rocket launched
1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian and a Bulgarian
1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
1979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
1978 Tiros N, U.S.'s 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched
1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus
1978 U.S. Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
1978 Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1977 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 and 2 launched into Earth orbit
1977 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
1977 Voyager 1 (U.S.) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn
1977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
1976 Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency
1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
1975 Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched
1975 Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1975 Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)
1975 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1975 Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
1974 Helios 1 launched by U.S., Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
1974 Space probe Helios 1 launched
1974 Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
1974 Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)
1973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
1973 Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit
1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
1973 Skylab 3's astronauts, Bean, Garriott and Lousma, launched
1973 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
1973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter and Saturn
1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
1972 Apollo 17 (U.S.), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
1972 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
1972 U.S. orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus
1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
1972 Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit and soft landing on Moon
1971 Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched
1971 Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
1971 U.S. Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
1971 U.S.S.R. Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
1971 Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
1971 Soyuz 10 launched
1971 U.S.S.R. Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
1971 U.S. and Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands
1970 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
1970 Venera 7 launched, makes 1st softlanding on Venus
1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1970 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif)
1969 Apollo 12 (Conrad/Gordon/Bean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
1969 Soyuz 8 is launched
1969 Soyuz 7 is launched
1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 and 8 follow in next 2 days
1969 Pioneer 10 launched
1969 Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched
1969 Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1969 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
1969 U.S. / Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
1969 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later
1969 U.S.S.R.'s Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1969 U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
1968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
1968 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy
1968 Soyuz 3 launched
1968 U.S.S.R.'s Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
1968 Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched (o 450 m)
1968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1968 Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)
1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by U.S. for soft-landing on Moon
1967 Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
1967 ATS-3 launched by U.S. to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank, Scotland
1967 Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10
1967 U.S.'s Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by U.S.; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1967 Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty
1967 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20
1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
1967 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
1966 Gemini 12 (Lovell and Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight
1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
1966 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
1966 U.S. Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
1966 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched
1966 Gemini XI (Charles Conrad and R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight
1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1966 1st lunar orbiter launched by U.S.
1966 Gemini 10 launched (John Young and Michael Collins)
1966 Pioneer 7 launched
1966 Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
1966 Explorer 33 launched
1966 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight, Stafford and Cernan
1966 OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched
1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1966 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched U.S.
1965 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
1965 Gemini 7 (Borman and Lovell) launched
1965 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space
1965 Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1965 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd U.S. 2-man flight, McDivitt and White
1965 Luna 5 launched (U.S.S.R.) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched
1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st U.S. 2-man space flight (Grissom and Young)
1965 U.S. Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
1965 U.S. Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
1965 Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors
1964 Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
1964 Voskhod 1 launched: 1st flight with 3 cosmonauts
1964 Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley
1964 U.S. weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
1964 Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
1964 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
1964 Echo 2, U.S. communications satellite launched
1963 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
1963 Explorer 18 launched
1963 2 secret U.S. military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
1963 U.S. Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1963 Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
1963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
1962 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
1962 Relay 1 communication satellite launched
1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
1962 Alouette (Canada), 1st Canadian satellite, launched
1962 Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
1962 M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit
1962 1st U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched
1962 Ranger 4, 1st U.S. satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1961 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
1961 U.S. Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1961 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
1961 Discoverer 25 launched
1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
1961 U.S. satellite Explorer 9 is launched
1960 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
1960 USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
1960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1960 Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
1960 Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
1960 U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
1960 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
1960 French liner "France" launched
1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched, the Tullibee
1960 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
1960 RCA TIROS (TV and Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus
1959 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
1959 Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
1959 Luna 2 launched by U.S.S.R.; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon
1959 Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
1959 Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched, George Washington
1959 Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 1st U.S. probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
1959 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
1958 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
1958 1st U.S. satellite, Explorer I, launched
1957 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
1957 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga launched
1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched
1955 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn
1947 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched
1943 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1943 U.S. destroyer William D. Porter [Willie Dee] launched
1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi
1941 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched
1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1941 1st Navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1940 1st U.S. merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched
1938 Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched at Glasgow
1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead
1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched
1932 French liner Normandie is launched
1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1931 Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel
1930 1st streamlined submarine of U.S. navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1918 Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in U.S., launched to carry oil, New York
1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF
1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B. A. Fiske
1909 1st San Francisco fireboat, David Scannell, launched
1906 Britain's 1st modern and largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
1901 1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow
1894 1st U.S. steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
1862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched
1862 Galena, 1st U.S. iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
1862 U.S. Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the Monitor, launched
1818 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched
1814 "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched
1797 U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
1797 U.S. frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
1797 1st U.S. frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila
1797 1st Navy ship, the "United States," is launched
1751 Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort
1270 8th and last crusade is launched
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