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2009 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS is launched by NASA to probe the Moon

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 Military 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

1951 Jack Green, musician, guitar, played with T. Rex, The Pretty Things, member of Rainbow, launched solo album Humanesque

1947 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched

1943 U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet launched

1943 1st warship named for a Black person, USS 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 Philadelphia

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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