Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/17 March

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• 1958 - A Vanguard rocket launches the Vanguard I satellite.
• 1966 - A Vostok rocket launches the Kosmos-112 satellite.
• 1969 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-272 satellite.
• 1970 - A Vostok-M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1972 - A Titan 24B launches a KH-8 satellite.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-898 satellite.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-995 satellite.
• 1980 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1168 satellite.
• 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1259 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1343 satellite.
• 1988 - A Vostok-M launches the IRS-1 satellite.
• 1988 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1992 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the manned Soyuz TM-14 mission to Mir.
• 1994 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-2274 satellite.
• 2002 - A Rokot launches the GRACE satellite.