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March 10 in spaceflight

13 orbital launches flew on March 10, the earliest of them in 1967, and 13 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 5 spaceflight and astronomy events on March 10. Below are the pictures NASA published on March 10 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

13MISSIONS

13 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1967, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

5ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1977 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

6IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 10, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on March 10

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, for this calendar date in each of the last several years.

NASA Science

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.

NASA · public domain

NASA Science

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

NASA Science

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

NASA Science

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.

© Abraham Jones — used with the credit NASA publishes

NASA Science

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.

© Bernard Miller — used with the credit NASA publishes

NASA Science

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.

NASA · public domain

What happened on March 10

  1. 1977

    Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory discovered a faint ring system around Uranus.

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  3. 1982

    Syzygy: All nine planets recognized at this time — Mercury to Pluto — align on the same side of the Sun.

    Syzygy (astronomy) ↗

  4. 2006

    NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (artist's impression pictured) reached and entered orbit around Mars.

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Every launch on March 10

13 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | EchoStar 25SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-43SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2016PSLV XL | IRNSS-1FISROSUCCESS
  4. 1994Delta II | GPS IIA-15USAFSUCCESS
  5. 1988Soyuz U | Zenit-8 60CCCPSUCCESS
  6. 1984Soyuz U | Efir 1CCCPSUCCESS
  7. 1978Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKM 13CCCPSUCCESS
  8. 1977Delta 2914 | Palapa A2USAFSUCCESS
  9. 1977Soyuz U | Zenit-4MK 75CCCPSUCCESS
  10. 1976Soyuz U | Zenit-4MK 56CCCPSUCCESS
  11. 1975Titan 34B | Jumpseat 4USAFSUCCESS
  12. 1970Diamant B | Dial WikaCNESSUCCESS
  13. 1967Proton / UR-500 K/D | Kosmos 146CCCPSUCCESS

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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.

    VIEW

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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.