Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/23 May

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• 1968 - A Thor-Burner launches the DAPP 5421 satellite.
• 1969 - A Titan IIIC launches the Vela 5A and 5B satellites.
• 1973 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-560 satellite.
• 1974 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1977 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos-910 satellite.
• 1977 - An Atlas-Agena launches the AFP-827 satellite.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1010 satellite.
• 1978 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1011 satellite.
• 1980 - An Ariane 1 fails to launch the Firewheel satellite.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1182 satellite.
• 1981 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Intelsat 501 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress-13 spacecraft to resupply the Salyut 7 Space Station.
• 1984 - An Ariane 1 launches the Spacenet-1 satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1654 satellite.
• 1986 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1745 satellite.
• 1995 - An Atlas I launches the GOES 9 satellite.
• 2008 - A Rokot launches three Gonets satellites and Yubileiny.