Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/5 April

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• 1963 - A Scout X-3 fails to launch the Transit VA-2 satellite.
• 1973 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-2 satellite.
• 1975 - A Soyuz rocket fails to launch the manned Soyuz 18 mission. (later redesignated Soyuz 18a)
• 1977 - A Vostok-M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1977 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-901 satellite.
• 1988 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1937 satellite.
• 1990 - The Pegasus rocket makes its maiden flight, launching the Pegsat and NavySat satellites.
• 1991 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory on mission STS-37.
• 1995 - A Shavit launches the Ofeq-3 satellite.