Launches
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17 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1966, the most recent 2026.
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June 7 in spaceflight
17 orbital launches flew on June 7, the earliest of them in 1966, and 17 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on June 7. Below are the pictures NASA published on June 7 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.
Recorded events
IN THE RECORD1ENTRY
Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1981 onward.
Pictures from this date
PUBLISHED6IMAGES
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 7, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.
Published on June 7
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.
NASA · public domain
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
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.
© Prabhu Kutti — used with the credit NASA publishes
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.
© Shaun Robertson — used with the credit NASA publishes
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 June 7
1981
The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear-weapons program.
Israeli Air Force ↗
Every launch on June 7
17 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-43SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-10SpXSUCCESS
- 2023Kinetica 1 | Flight 2CASSUCCESS
- 2013Soyuz 2.1b | Persona (Kosmos-2486)VKOSUCCESS
- 2011Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-02MRFSASUCCESS
- 2007Soyuz-U-PVB | Yantar-4K2M 3VKSSUCCESS
- 2000Pegasus XL | Tri-Services Experiments Platform-5 (TSX-5)OSCSUCCESS
- 1994Soyuz-U-PVB | Zenit-8 102VKSSUCCESS
- 1992Delta 6920-10 | EUVEUSAFSUCCESS
- 1989Kosmos-3M | Parus 66CCCPSUCCESS
- 1988Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Soyuz-U-PVB | Resurs-F1 17F41 54LCCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 22LCCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Proton-K/D-1 | Venera-16CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Kosmos-3M | Bhaskara 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 145-152CCCPSUCCESS
- 1966Atlas SLV-3 Agena B | OGO 3USAFSUCCESS
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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.