Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/19 January

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• 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches two experimental AFP-43 satellites.
• 1965 - The first Thor-Burner launches a DMSP weather satellite.
• 1965 - A Titan II conducts the Gemini 2 sub-orbital test of the Gemini spacecraft.
• 1966 - An Atlas-Agena launches a KH-7 spy satellite.
• 1967 - A Vostok rocket launches a Zenit-2 spy satellite.
• 1968 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Tseleina spy satellite.
• 1974 - The first Delta 2000, in the 2313 configuration, fails to launch a Skynet spacecraft, after a second stage malfunction.
• 1983 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Strela communication satellites.
• 1993 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing mission STS-54.
• 1993 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar spy satellite.
• 2006 - An Atlas V 551 launches New Horizons, the first spacecraft bound for Pluto (at the time designated a planet).