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March 25 in spaceflight

25 orbital launches flew on March 25, the earliest of them in 1961, and 24 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on March 25. Below are the pictures NASA published on March 25 in 1 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

25MISSIONS

24 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1961, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

3ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1655 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

1IMAGE

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 25, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on March 25

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

What happened on March 25

  1. 1655

    Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of Saturn.

    Christiaan Huygens ↗

  2. 1655

    Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

    Saturn ↗

  3. 1979

    The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

    Space Shuttle ↗

Every launch on March 25

25 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Long March 2D | SuperView Neo 2-05 & 06CASCSUCCESS
  2. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-46SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2021Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 5ASASUCCESS
  4. 2015Dnepr 1 | KOMPSat-3AISCKSUCCESS
  5. 2015Delta IV M+(4,2) | GPS IIF-9 (USA-260)ULASUCCESS
  6. 2014Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-12MRFSASUCCESS
  7. 2012Proton-M / Briz-M Enhanced | Intelsat 22ILSSUCCESS
  8. 2002Long March 2F | Shenzhou-3CASCSUCCESS
  9. 2000Delta 7326-9.5 | IMAGEUSAFSUCCESS
  10. 1998Long March 2C/SD | Iridium 51 & 61CASCSUCCESS
  11. 1993Atlas I | UHF F/O F1GDSUCCESS
  12. 1993Start-1 | EKA-1VKSSUCCESS
  13. 1993Proton | Raduga 29KhSCSUCCESS
  14. 1988Scout G-1 | San Marco 5NASASUCCESS
  15. 1986Tsiklon-2 | US-P 24CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1985Soyuz U | Yantar-4KS1 3CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1982Tsiklon-3 | Meteor-2 8CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1978Titan IIIC | DSCS-2 9 & 10USAFFAILURE
  19. 1972Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 51CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1972Kosmos-3M | Sfera 8CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1967Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 7CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1965Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 18USAFSUCCESS
  23. 1965Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 26CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1961Delta DM-19 | Explorer 10USAFSUCCESS
  25. 1961Vostok-K | Sputnik 10CCCPSUCCESS

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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.