Launches
ON RECORD19MISSIONS
15 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1964, the most recent 2026.
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March 27 in spaceflight
19 orbital launches flew on March 27, the earliest of them in 1964, and 15 reached orbit. Below are the pictures NASA published on March 27 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.
Recorded events
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Wikipedia records no spaceflight or astronomy event on this date.
Pictures from this date
PUBLISHED6IMAGES
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 27, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.
Published on March 27
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.
© Robert Nemiroff — 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.
© Lorand Fenyes — used with the credit NASA publishes
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.
NASA · public domain
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.
© Bernard Miller — used with the credit NASA publishes
Every launch on March 27
19 launches
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- 2026Long March 2C/YZ-1S | Shiyan 33CASCSUCCESS
- 2019OS-M1 | Lingque-1BOSFAILURE
- 2015Soyuz STB/Fregat | Galileo L4 (FOC FM03-FM04)ASASUCCESS
- 2015Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-16MRFSASUCCESS
- 2008Kosmos-3M | SAR-Lupe 4NPSUCCESS
- 2004Proton | Raduga-1 7KhSCSUCCESS
- 1990Molniya-M | US-K 62CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Soyuz U | Progress 8CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1 11CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Kosmos-3M | DS-U2-IK 6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 39CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Molniya-M | Venera-8CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Voskhod | Zenit-4M 13CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Atlas SLV-3C Centaur | Mariner 7USAFSUCCESS
- 1969Proton | Mars-2bCCCPFAILURE
- 1966Molniya 8K78 | Molniya-1 3aCCCPFAILURE
- 1964Scout X-3 | Ariel 2SERCSUCCESS
- 1964Molniya 8K78 | Zond 1cCCCPFAILURE
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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.