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April 19 in spaceflight

18 orbital launches flew on April 19, the earliest of them in 1966, and 17 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 8 spaceflight and astronomy events on April 19. Below are the pictures NASA published on April 19 in 4 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

18MISSIONS

17 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1966, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

8ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1809 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

4IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for April 19, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on April 19

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

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.

© Demison Lopes — used with the credit NASA publishes

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.

© Starry Earth — used with the credit NASA publishes

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 April 19

  1. 1809

    War of the Fifth Coalition: French general Louis-Nicolas Davout defeated an Austrian force in Lower Bavaria, allowing him to rejoin the main French army.

    War of the Fifth Coalition ↗

  2. 1809

    An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.

    Duchy of Warsaw ↗

  3. 1971

    Salyut 1, the first space station, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in the Soviet Union.

    Salyut 1 ↗

  4. 1971

    Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.

    Salyut 1 ↗

  5. 1975

    Aryabhata (pictured), India's first satellite, was launched from Kapustin Yar in the Soviet Union.

    Aryabhata (satellite) ↗

  6. 1975

    India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.

    India ↗

  7. 2001

    Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-100 carrying the Canadarm2 to the International Space Station.

    Space Shuttle Endeavour ↗

Every launch on April 19

18 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-22SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2026New Glenn | BlueBird 7 (Block 2 #2)BOFAILURE
  3. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-2SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2013Soyuz 2.1a | Bion-M No. 1RFSASUCCESS
  5. 2004Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-4RFSASUCCESS
  6. 2001Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-100USASUCCESS
  7. 2000Ariane 42L | Galaxy 4RASASUCCESS
  8. 1992Soyuz-U2 | Progress M-12RFSASUCCESS
  9. 1985Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 14CCCPSUCCESS
  10. 1984Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 94CCCPSUCCESS
  11. 1983Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 15CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1982Proton | Salyut-7CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1975Kosmos-3M | AryabhataCCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1973Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-IK 3 & Kopernik-500CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1973Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 11CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1972Thorad SLV-2H Agena D | KH-4B 16USAFSUCCESS
  17. 1971Proton | Salyut 1CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1966Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 27USAFSUCCESS

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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.

    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

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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.