Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/24 April

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• 1962 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-3 satellite.
• 1967 - Vladimir Komarov becomes the first person to die as a result of an in-flight anomaly, when Soyuz 1 suffers a parachute failure during landing.
• 1968 - A Tsyklon launches the Kosmos-217 satellite.
• 1970 - China conducts its first satellite launch, when a Long March 1 places the DFH-1 satellite into orbit.
• 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-335 satellite.
• 1971 - A Scout-B launches the San Marco C satellite.
• 1971 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-408 satellite.
• 1974 - A Vostok-M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1975 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-730 satellite.
• 1981 - A Titan 34B launches the OPS 7225 satellite.
• 1987 - A Proton-K fails to launch three GLONASS satellites.
• 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1841 satellite.
• 1990 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-31 to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 1991 - A Tsyklon-3 launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1996 - A Delta II launches the MSX satellite.
• 1996 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-2332 satellite.
• 1996 - A Titan IV launches a Mercury satellite.
• 1998 - A Delta II launches several Globalstar satellites.
• 2003 - A Proton-K launches the Kosmos-2397 satellite.
• 2006 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-56 spacecraft to resupply the ISS.
• 2007 - A Minotaur launches the NFIRE satellite.