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April 25 in spaceflight

31 orbital launches flew on April 25, the earliest of them in 1961, and 28 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on April 25. Below are the pictures NASA published on April 25 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

31MISSIONS

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

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

2ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1792 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

6IMAGES

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

Published on April 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.

© Lorenzo Busilacchi — used with the credit NASA publishes

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 April 25

  2. 1792

    "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

    La Marseillaise ↗

Every launch on April 25

31 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-34 (95P)RFSASUCCESS
  2. 2026Long March 6 | PRSC-EO3CASCSUCCESS
  3. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-74SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2024Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 18CASCSUCCESS
  5. 2021Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 6ASASUCCESS
  6. 2020Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-14 (75P)RFSASUCCESS
  7. 2018Rokot / Briz-KM | Sentinel-3BELSSUCCESS
  8. 2016Soyuz STA/Fregat | Sentinel-1BASASUCCESS
  9. 2008Long March 3C | Tian Lian 1ACASCSUCCESS
  10. 2007Pegasus XL | Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM)OSCSUCCESS
  11. 2006Start-1 | EROS BVKSSUCCESS
  12. 2002Soyuz-U | Soyuz TM-34RFSASUCCESS
  13. 2000Soyuz U | Progress M1-2RFSASUCCESS
  14. 1997Atlas I | GOES 10GDSUCCESS
  15. 1993Pegasus | Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (ALEXIS)OSCSUCCESS
  16. 1992Titan II SLV | P-11 5105USAFSUCCESS
  17. 1990Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 25CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1985Soyuz U | Zenit-8 14CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1983Molniya-M | US-K 29CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1981Proton | TKS 2CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1979Tsiklon-2 | US-P 7CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1979Proton-K/DM | Raduga 5CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1973Voskhod | Zenit-2M 37CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1973Tsiklon-2 | US-A 5CCCPFAILURE
  25. 1972Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 54CCCPFAILURE
  26. 1970Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 1-8CCCPSUCCESS
  27. 1968R-36O 8K69 | OGCh 17CCCPSUCCESS
  28. 1966Molniya 8K78 | Molniya-1 3CCCPSUCCESS
  29. 1964Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 17CCCPSUCCESS
  30. 1962Saturn I | Saturn SA-2NASASUCCESS
  31. 1961Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 3NASAFAILURE

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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

  • LISTING

    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.