Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/25 May

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• 1961 - In a famous speech before the U.S. Congress, President Kennedy announced his support for Project Apollo.
• 1965 - A Saturn I launches the A-104 and Pegasus 2 spacecraft.
• 1965 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-67 satellite.
• 1966 - A Delta-C launches the Explorer 32 spacecraft.
• 1972 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-491 satellite.
• 1972 - A Thorad-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1973 - A Kosmos-3M fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1973 - A Saturn IB launches the manned Skylab 2 mission.
• 1973 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-561 satellite.
• 1977 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-911 satellite.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1012 satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1102 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1369 satellite.
• 1984 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1558 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches a Resurs-F satellite.
• 1994 - A Tsyklon-3 fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1996 - A Proton-K launches the Gorizont satellite.
• 2004 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-49 spacecraft to resupply the ISS.
• 2007 - A Long March 2D conducts China's 100^th successful orbital launch, with the Yaogan 2 satellite.
• 2008 - The Phoenix robotic spacecraft lands on Mars.