Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/18 March

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• 1963 - A Thor-Agena fails to launch a CORONA satellite.
• 1964 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-26 satellite.
• 1965 - A Thor launches the DAPP satellite.
• 1965 - A Voskhod rocket launches the manned Voskhod 2 mission.
• 1965 - Alexey Leonov conducts the first ever EVA, from the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.
• 1966 - An Atlas-Agena launches the AFP-206 satellite.
• 1969 - An Atlas-F launches three OV1 satellites.
• 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-327 satellite.
• 1971 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-400 satellite.
• 1976 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-809 satellite.
• 1981 - A Proton-K launches the Raduga satellite.
• 1987 - A Zenit-2 launches the Kosmos-1833 satellite.
• 1995 - An H-II launches the SFU and Himawari 5 satellites.
• 2001 - A Zenit-3SL launches the XM-2 Roll satellite.