Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day
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12 November
- 1960 - A Thor-Agena launches the Discoverer 17 satellite.
- 1965 - A Molniya-M launches the Venera 2 spacecraft.
- 1966 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 131 satellite.
- 1969 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 309 satellite.
- 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1221 satellite.
- 1981 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on test mission STS-2, becoming the first manned spacecraft to make two orbital flights.
- 1991 - A Tsyklon-3 launches six Strela satellites.
- 1995 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on Shuttle-Mir mission STS-74, with a docking module for the Mir space station.
- 1997 - A Proton-K launches a Kupon satellite.
- 1997 - An Ariane 4 launches the Sirius 2 and Cakrawarta satellites.
- 2009 - A Long March 2C launches the Shijian XI-01 satellite.
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- 1971 - The last Black Arrow rocket makes Britain's first, and so far, only satellite launch, orbiting the Prospero X-3 satellite.