Launches
ON RECORD20MISSIONS
19 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1964, the most recent 2026.
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January 29 in spaceflight
20 orbital launches flew on January 29, the earliest of them in 1964, and 19 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on January 29. Below are the pictures NASA published on January 29 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.
Recorded events
IN THE RECORD1ENTRY
Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1814 onward.
Pictures from this date
PUBLISHED6IMAGES
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for January 29, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.
Published on January 29
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, for this calendar date in each of the last several years.
2026
NASA Science
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
© Mike Selby — used with the credit NASA publishes
2025
NASA Science
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
NASA · public domain
2024
NASA Science
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
NASA · public domain
2023
NASA Science
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
NASA · public domain
2022
NASA Science
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
© Robert Nemiroff — used with the credit NASA publishes
2021
NASA Science
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
© Liron Gertsman — used with the credit NASA publishes
What happened on January 29
1814
War of the Sixth Coalition: At the Battle of Brienne, both sides' commanders, Napoleon and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, were nearly captured.
War of the Sixth Coalition ↗
Every launch on January 29
20 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-19SpXSUCCESS
- 2025GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1K (NVS-02)ISROSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-12SpXSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-38SpXSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 4C | Yaogan-31-02CASCSUCCESS
- 2020Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 3SpXSUCCESS
- 2016Proton-M Briz-M | Eutelsat 9BILSSUCCESS
- 2004Soyuz U | Progress M1-11RFSASUCCESS
- 2003Delta II | GPS IIR-8USAFSUCCESS
- 1998Atlas IIA | NROL-5LMTSUCCESS
- 1998Soyuz U | Soyuz TM-27RFSASUCCESS
- 1995Atlas II | UHF F/O F4USAFSUCCESS
- 1992Proton | Uragan 45 to 47KhSCSUCCESS
- 1991Kosmos-3M | Informator-1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Kosmos-3M | Tsikada 15CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984Long March 3 | DFH-2 1CASCPARTIAL
- 1982Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 10CCCPSUCCESS
- 1976Atlas SLV-3D Centaur | Intelsat-4A 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1976Voskhod | Zenit-2M 64CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Saturn I | Saturn SA-5NASASUCCESS
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Cosmos — Carl Sagan
Still the best single argument for why any of this matters, and it leaves the arithmetic in. For a reader who wants the science, not just the awe.
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Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan
The case for leaving Earth, written by someone unsentimental about how hard that is. Suits readers who want the argument rather than the poster.
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Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
Hard-SF problem solving in The Martian's key — for anyone who liked the engineering more than the peril. The only novel on this list.
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Sources and licences
Event text and thumbnails come from Wikipedia and are used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Images are drawn only from Wikimedia Commons, which does not accept non-free content — each thumbnail links to its file page, where its licence and author are recorded.
Launch records are from The Space Devs’ Launch Library 2. Pictures are NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day; NASA imagery is generally not subject to copyright, but individual APOD entries are frequently the property of the photographer, and each caption says which applies.