Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/2 March

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• 1965 - Atlas-Centaur AC-5 explodes on its launch pad during an attempt to launch a Surveyor spacecraft.
• 1968 - A Scout-A launches the NNS O-18 satellite.
• 1968 - A Proton-K launches the Zond 4 spacecraft.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz 28 mission to Salyut 6.
• 1978 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1983 - A Proton-K launches the Kosmos-1443 satellite.
• 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1444 satellite.
• 1984 - A Proton-K launches the Kosmos-1540 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-2005 satellite.
• 1991 - An Ariane 4 launches the Astra 1B and Meteosat 5 satellites.
• 1994 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Koronas-I satellite.
• 1995 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on mission STS-67.
• 1995 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-2306 satellite.
• 2004 - An Ariane 5 launches the Rosetta spacecraft.