Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/13 January

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• 1962 - A Thor-Agena launches the Discoverer 37 spy satellite
• 1969 - The first manned launch scrub in the history of the Soviet space programme occurs, when Soyuz 4 is delayed due to bad weather.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-2M spy satellite
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-2MKM spy satellite
• 1984 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar-4K1 spy satellite
• 1993 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 comsat
• 1983 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on mission STS-54 to deploy a TDRS satellite.
• 2003 - A Delta II rocket launches the ICESat and CHIPSat spacecraft.