Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/7 May

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• 1963 - Telstar-2 is launched by a Delta-B
• 1955 - Kosmos-66 is launched by a Vostok-2
• 1968 - Kosmos-220 is launched by a Kosmos-3M
• 1971 - Eight Strela satellites are launched by a Kosmos-3M
• 1975 - Explorer-53 is launched by a Scout-F launched from the San Marco Platform.
• 1975 - Anik A3 is launched by a Delta 2000
• 1980 - Kosmos-1179 is launched by a Soyuz-U
• 1981 - Kosmos-1269 is launched by a Kosmos-3M
• 1983 - Kosmos-1461 is launched by a Tsyklon-2
• 1984 - Progress 21 is launched by a Soyuz-U
• 1990 - Kosmos-2077 is launched by a Soyuz-U
• 1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its maiden flight, STS-49, a mission to reboost the Intelsat 6 satellite, which had been placed in a useless orbit.
• 1998 - Kosmos-2351 is launched by a Molniya-M
• 1998 - Echostar-4 is launched by a Proton-K
• 2002 - DirecTV-5 is launched by a Proton-K