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March 29 in spaceflight

13 orbital launches flew on March 29, the earliest of them in 1962, and 13 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on March 29. Below are the pictures NASA published on March 29 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 1962, the most recent 2025.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

3ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1807 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

6IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 29, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on March 29

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.

NASA · public domain

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 29

  1. 1807

    German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Vesta, the brightest asteroid and second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.

    Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers ↗

  2. 1974

    NASA's Mariner 10 became the first space probe to make a flyby of Mercury.

    NASA ↗

  3. 1974

    NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.

    NASA ↗

Every launch on March 29

13 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2025Long March 7A | TJSW-16CASCSUCCESS
  2. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-10SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2023Soyuz 2.1v | Kosmos 2568 (EO MKA-4)VKSSUCCESS
  4. 2022Long March 6A | Demo Flight (Pujiang-2 & Tiankun-2)CASCSUCCESS
  5. 2018Long March 3B / YZ-1 | Beidou-3 M9 & M10CASCSUCCESS
  6. 2018Soyuz 2.1v | VNIIEM EMKA (Kosmos 2525)VKSSUCCESS
  7. 2018GSLV Mk II | GSAT-6AISROSUCCESS
  8. 2016Long March 3A | Beidou No. 22CASCSUCCESS
  9. 2005Proton-K/DM-2M | Ekspress AM-2KhSCSUCCESS
  10. 2002Ariane 44L | JCSAT 2AASASUCCESS
  11. 1984Proton-K/DM | US-KS 2CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1977Kosmos-3M | OvalCCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1962Scout X-2 | P-21ANASASUCCESS

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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.

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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.

    VIEW

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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.