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March 24 in spaceflight

29 orbital launches flew on March 24, the earliest of them in 1961, and 25 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on March 24. Below are the pictures NASA published on March 24 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

29MISSIONS

25 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1961, the most recent 2025.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

1ENTRY

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1992 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

6IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 24, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on March 24

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.

© Robert Nemiroff — 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.

NASA · public domain

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 24

Every launch on March 24

29 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-69SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-42SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-5SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2023Electron | The Beat Goes On (BlackSky 18-19)RLSUCCESS
  5. 2021Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 22SpXSUCCESS
  6. 2020Long March 2C | Yaogan-30-06CASCSUCCESS
  7. 2016Soyuz 2.1a | Bars-M No. 2 (Kosmos 2515)VKSSUCCESS
  8. 2009Delta II 7925-9.5 | GPS IIR-M-7 (USA-203)ULASUCCESS
  9. 2006Falcon 1 | FalconSAT-2SpXFAILURE
  10. 1998Ariane 40 | SPOT-4ASASUCCESS
  11. 1995Atlas E | DMSP-5D2 F13USAFSUCCESS
  12. 1992Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-45LSOCSUCCESS
  13. 1989Delta 3920-8 | Delta StarUSAFSUCCESS
  14. 1989Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 337-344CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1988Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 37CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1987ASLV | SROSS-AISROFAILURE
  17. 1983Kosmos-3M | Nadezhda 2CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1982Kosmos-3M | Parus 31CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1982Molniya-M | Molniya-3 29LCCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1981Molniya-M | Molniya-3 24LCCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1977Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 34CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1977Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 36CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1972Thor Burner 2A | DMSP-5B F2USAFSUCCESS
  24. 1971Thorad SLV-2H Agena D | KH-4B 14USAFSUCCESS
  25. 1969Voskhod | Zenit-4 54CCCPSUCCESS
  26. 1967Kosmos 11K65 | Strela-2 3CCCPSUCCESS
  27. 1966UR-500 | Proton 3aCCCPFAILURE
  28. 1964Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 4USAFFAILURE
  29. 1961Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone BDNASASUCCESS

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  • LISTING

    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.

    VIEW

  • LISTING

    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.

    VIEW

  • LISTING

    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.