Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/18 January

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• 1967 - A Titan IIIC launches eight IDCSP communication satellites.
• 1968 - A Titan IIIB launches a KH-8 spy satellite.
• 1969 - Soyuz 5 lands, following a potentially fatal re-entry in which the service module failed to separate, and the braking rockets failed to ignite.
• 1979 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 communication satellite.
• 1980 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the FltSatCom-3 communication satellite.
• 1985 - A Proton-K/DM launches a Gorizont communication satellite.
• 1986 - Space Shuttle Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base, completing the STS-61-C mission
• 1988 - A Proton-K/DM fails to launch a Gorizont communication satellite, due to a malfunction of the rocket's third stage.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-8 spy satellite.
• 1990 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Strela communication satellite.
• 1991 - A Tsyklon-2 launches an EORSAT spy satellite.
• 2007 - A Soyuz-U launches a Progress spacecraft to ressupply the ISS.