Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/19 January
Appearance
- 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches two experimental AFP-43 satellites.
- 1965 - The first Thor-Burner launches a DMSP weather satellite.
- 1965 - A Titan II conducts the Gemini 2 sub-orbital test of the Gemini spacecraft.
- 1966 - An Atlas-Agena launches a KH-7 spy satellite.
- 1967 - A Vostok-2 rocket launches a Zenit-2 spy satellite.
- 1968 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Tseleina spy satellite.
- 1974 - The first Delta 2313 fails to launch a Skynet spacecraft, after a second stage malfunction.
- 1983 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Strela communication satellites.
- 1993 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing mission STS-54.
- 1993 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar spy satellite.
- 2006 - An Atlas V 551 launches New Horizons, the first spacecraft bound for Pluto, which was at the time designated a planet.