Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/13 March

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• 1967 - A Vostok rocket launches the Kosmos-147 satellite.
• 1968 - A Titan IIIB launches a KH-8 satellite.
• 1970 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-326 satellite.
• 1971 - A Delta-M launches the Explorer 43 spacecraft.
• 1977 - A Titan 24B launches a KH-8 satellite.
• 1985 - An Atlas-E launches the Geosat satellite.
• 1986 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the manned Soyuz T-15 spacecraft to Mir.
• 1987 - A Tsyklon-3 launches six Strela satellites.
• 1989 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-29 to deploy the fourth TDRS satellite.
• 1994 - The Taurus rocket makes its maiden flight, launching the STEP 0 satellite.
• 2004 - An Atlas III launches the MBSAT satellite.
• 2008 - The Atlas V makes its thirteenth launch, and its first from Vandenberg Air Force Base, launching a classified NRO payload.