Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/27 April

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• 1958 - A Sputnik rocket fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1961 - A Juno II launches the Explorer 11 spacecraft.
• 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1967 - A Vostok-M launches the Kosmos-156 satellite.
• 1977 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-906 satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1097 satellite.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress 9 spacecraft to resupply Salyut 6.
• 1987 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos-1842 satellite.
• 1988 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1941 satellite.
• 1993 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-2243 satellite.
• 1999 - An Athena-2 fails to launch the Ikonos-1 satellite.
• 2008 - The Mobile Service Structure at Cape Canaveral LC-40 is demolished.