Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/8 June

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• 1961 - A Thor-Agena fails to launch the Discoverer-24 satellite.
• 1965 - A Molniya-M launches the Luna 6 probe.
• 1966 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-120 satellite.
• 1967 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-164 satellite.
• 1971 - A Thor-Burner launches the P70-1 satellite.
• 1973 - A Kosmos-3M launches the eight Strela satellites.
• 1975 - A Proton-K launches the Venera 9 probe.
• 1975 - A Titan IIID launches a KH-9 satellite.
• 1976 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-824 satellite.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-915 satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1105 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1376 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1377 satellite.
• 1984 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1570 satellite.
• 1989 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 satellite.
• 1990 - A Titan IV launches an SLDCOM and three NOSS satellites.
• 1995 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos-2313 satellite.
• 2001 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-2378 satellite.
• 2003 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M1-10 spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station.
• 2007 - A Delta II launches the COSMO-1 satellite.
• 2007 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-117, to deliver the ITS-S3/4 truss to the ISS.