Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/15 May

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• 1958 - A Sputnik rocket launches the Sputnik 3 satellite.
• 1960 - A Vostok rocket launches a Korabl'-Sputnik satellite.
• 1962 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1963 - An Atlas-D launches the last Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9, with astronaut Gordon Cooper aboard.
• 1966 - A Thor-Agena launches the Nimbus 2 satellite.
• 1967 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-158 satellite.
• 1974 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos-651 satellite.
• 1974 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-652 satellite.
• 1974 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-653 satellite.
• 1976 - A Vostok-M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1098 satellite.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1180 satellite.
• 1981 - A Scout G-1 launches the Nova 1 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1649 satellite.
• 1986 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos-1743 satellite.
• 1987 - An Atlas-H launches three NOSS satellites.
• 1987 - The first Energia rocket fails to launch a Polyus satellite.
• 1988 - A Zenit-2 launches the Kosmos-1943 satellite.
• 1990 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-2078 satellite.
• 1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-84 to visit Mir.
• 1997 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-2343 satellite.
• 2001 - A Proton-K launches the PanAmSat-10 satellite.
• 2002 - A Long March 4B launches the FY-1D satellite.