Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/10 January

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• 1969 - A Molniya-M rocket launches Venera 6 to Venus.
• 1975 - Soyuz 17 launches, carrying two cosmonauts to Salyut 4.
• 1978 - Soyuz 27 is launched, with two cosmonauts bound for Salyut 6.
• 1978 - A Vostok rocket launches a Tselina satellite.
• 1978 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Strela communication satellites.
• 1989 - Three GLONASS satellites are launched by a Proton-K/DM-2.
• 1995 - An Atlas IIAS launches the Intelsat 704 communication satellite.
• 1998 - A Skynet satellite is launched by a Delta II rocket.
• 2001 - An Ariane 4 rocket is launched, with the Turksat 2A satellite.
• 2002 - Mars Odyssey completes aerobraking, finalising its orbit around Mars.
• 2007 - A PSLV launches four satellites, including SRE-1, India's first recoverable spacecraft.