Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/9 April

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• 1959 - NASA formally selected its first astronauts, the Mercury Seven.
• 1962 - An Atlas-Agena launches the Midas 5 satellite.
• 1968 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-211 satellite.
• 1969 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-278 satellite.

• 1975 - A Delta 1410 launches the Geos 3 satellite.
• 1976 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-813 satellite.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz 35 mission.
• 1981 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1263 satellite.
• 1986 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1739 satellite.
• 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1835 satellite.
• 1994 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on mission STS-59.
• 1995 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-27 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 1997 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos-2340 satellite.
• 1999 - A Titan IV fails to launch a DSP satellite.
• 2003 - An Ariane 5 launches the Galaxy 12 and Insat 3A satellites.
• 2007 - A Proton-M launches the Anik F3 satellite.