Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/17 April

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• 1965 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-65 satellite.
• 1967 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Surveyor 3 probe.
• 1968 - A Titan IIIB launches the KH-8 satellite.
• 1971 - A Vostok-M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1173 satellite.
• 1983 - An SLV launches the Rohini 3 satellite.
• 1984 - A Titan 24B launches a KH-8 satellite.
• 1986 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1741 satellite.
• 1990 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-2073 satellite.
• 1997 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-2341 satellite.
• 1998 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on Neurolab mission STS-90.
• 2000 - A Proton-K launches the Sesat satellite.
• 2007 - A Dnepr launches the a collection of small satellites.