Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/5 May

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• 1961 - Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, and the first man to fly a sub-orbital spaceflight, aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.
• 1967 - A Scout-A launches the Ariel 3 satellite.
• 1971 - A Titan IIIC launches the DSP-2 satellite.
• 1972 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-488 satellite.
• 1973 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-556 satellite.
• 1976 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-817 satellite.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-907 satellite.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1004 satellite.
• 1982 - A Vostok-M launches the Kosmos-1356 satellite.
• 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1843 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-2019 satellite.
• 1990 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress-42 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 1996 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-31 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 1997 - A Delta II launches several Iridium satellites.
• 1999 - A Delta III fails to launch the Orion 3 satellite.
• 2005 - A PSLV launches the CartoSat satellite.