< Portal:Spaceflight < On This Day
- 1966 - Sergei Korolev, the head of the Soviet space programme, dies, aged 59.
- 1967 - A Thor-Agena launches with a KH-4A spy satellite
- 1969 - Soyuz 4 launches, carrying cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov
- 1970 - A Titan IIIB launches a KH-8 spy satellite
- 1971 - A Kosmos-2I rocket launches a DS-P1-I radar target satellite
- 1980 - A Kosmos-3M rocket launches a Parus navigation spacecraft
- 1982 - A Kosmos-3M rocket launches a Parus navigation spacecraft
- 1983 - A Tsyklon-3 rocket launches a Tselina SIGINT spacecraft
- 1991 - Progress M-6 is launched aboard a Soyuz-U2 rocket, to resupply Mir
- 1994 - Soyuz TM-17 lands, with the Mir EO-14 crew aboard.
- 1996 - A Delta II rocket launches Koreasat 2
- 1998 - The crew of Mir perform an EVA to inspect the space station.
- 2002 - The crew of the ISS begin an EVA to move a crane from PMA-1 to Pirs.
- 2005 - The Cassini probe flies-by Titan, as the Huygens probe lands on its surface.
- 2008 - MESSENGER conducts its first flyby of Mercury.
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