Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/5 June

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• 1967 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-163 satellite.
• 1968 - A Titan IIIB launches a KH-8 satellite.
• 1969 - A Thorad-Agena launches the OGO-6 satellite.
• 1973 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-562 satellite.
• 1975 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1977 - A Thor launches the DMSP-5D-F-2 satellite.
• 1979 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 satellite.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz T-2 mission.
• 1989 - An Ariane 4 launches the Superbird-A and DFS-1 satellites.
• 1991 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-40, a manned Spacelab research mission.
• 2002 - An Ariane 4 launches the Intelsat 905 satellite.
• 2002 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on mission STS-111 to the ISS.