Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/15 January

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• 1965 - A Thor-Agena launches a KH-4A spy satellite.
• 1969 - Soyuz 5 launches on a mission to rendezvous and dock with Soyuz 4
• 1970 - A Delta-M launches Intelsat 3-F6.
• 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches a DS-P1-Yu experimental target satellite.
• 1976 - A Titan IIIE launches the Helios 2 spacecraft to investigate the Sun.
• 1985 - A Tsyklon-3 launches two Strela comsats, and four boilerplate mockups.
• 1986 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar-4K1 spy satellite.
• 1986 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-8 spy satellite.
• 1988 - A Tsyklon-3 launches six Strela comsats.
• 1991 - An Ariane 4 launches the Italsat 1 and Eutelsat II F2 comsats
• 1995 - An Mu-3S-II rocket fails to launch the Express 1 satellite.
• 1996 - The crew of STS-72 perform an EVA to test techniques for ISS assembly
• 2003 - The crew of the ISS perform an EVA to deploy a radiator panel.
• 2004 - The Spirit rover begins its exploration of Mars
• 2006 - Samples taken by the Stardust spacecraft return to Earth.
• 2008 - A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL launches Thuraya 3.