Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/24 May

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• 1960 - An Atlas-Agena launches the Midas 2 satellite.
• 1961 - A Juno II fails to launch the S-45A satellite.
• 1962 - A Scout X-2 fails to launch the FTV 3501 satellite.
• 1962 - An Atlas-D launches the manned Mercury-Atlas 7 mission.
• 1963 - A Vostok rocket launches the Kosmos-18 satellite.
• 1966 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1966 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-119 satellite.
• 1967 - A Delta-E launches the Explorer 34 spacecraft.
• 1967 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1968 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-221 satellite.
• 1975 - A Thor-Burner launches the DMSP 10533 satellite.
• 1975 - A Soyuz rocket launches the manned Soyuz 18 mission to Salyut 4.
• 1983 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1464 satellite.
• 1986 - A Proton-K launches an Ekran satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-2021 satellite.
• 1991 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-2149 satellite.
• 1995 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos-2312 satellite.
• 1996 - A Delta II launches the Galaxy 9 satellite.
• 1997 - A Proton-K launches the Telstar 5 satellite.
• 2000 - An Atlas III launches the Eutelsat W4 satellite.
• 2003 - A Long March 3A launches a Beidou satellite.
• 2006 - A Delta IV launches the GOES-N satellite.