Launches
ON RECORD10MISSIONS
9 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1965, the most recent 2025.
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April 10 in spaceflight
10 orbital launches flew on April 10, the earliest of them in 1965, and 9 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on April 10. Below are the pictures NASA published on April 10 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.
Recorded events
IN THE RECORD4ENTRIES
Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 837 onward.
Pictures from this date
PUBLISHED6IMAGES
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for April 10, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.
Published on April 10
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.
© Mike Selby — 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.
© Robert Nemiroff — 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.
© Jean-Francois Graffand — used with the credit NASA publishes
What happened on April 10
837
Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
Halley's Comet ↗1814
Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington attack Toulouse held by Marshall Soult, driving out the French after fierce fighting.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ↗1991
A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola, the first to be documented by satellites.
South Atlantic tropical cyclone ↗2019
Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy M87.
Event Horizon Telescope ↗
Every launch on April 10
10 launches
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- 2025Long March 3B/E | TJSW-17CASCSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-48SpXSUCCESS
- 2018Long March 4C | 3 x Yaogan-31-01CASCSUCCESS
- 2014Atlas V 541 | NROL-67 (USA-250)ULASUCCESS
- 1992Delta II | GPS IIA-4USAFSUCCESS
- 1984Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Delta 3910/PAM | Insat 1AUSAFSUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz-U | Soyuz 33CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Titan IIID | KH-9 8USAFSUCCESS
- 1965Molniya 8K78 | Luna-5dCCCPFAILURE
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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.