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June 25 in spaceflight

31 orbital launches flew on June 25, the earliest of them in 1959, and 27 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on June 25. Below are the pictures NASA published on June 25 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

31MISSIONS

27 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1959, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

3ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1967 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

6IMAGES

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

Published on June 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.

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.

© Gruppo Astrofili Palidoro — 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.

© Miguel Claro — used with the credit NASA publishes

What happened on June 25

  1. 1967

    More than an estimated 400 million people viewed Our World, the first live international satellite television production.

    Our World (1967 TV program) ↗

  2. 1992

    Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-50, the first shuttle mission to carry Extended Duration Orbiter hardware.

    Space Shuttle Columbia ↗

  3. 1997

    An uncrewed Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.

    Progress M-34 ↗

Every launch on June 25

31 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-45SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-16SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 4SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2024Falcon Heavy | GOES-USpXSUCCESS
  5. 2021Soyuz 2.1b | Pion-NKS No. 1 (Kosmos 2550)VKSSUCCESS
  6. 2020SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF09VGSUCCESS
  7. 2019Falcon Heavy | STP-2SpXSUCCESS
  8. 2017Falcon 9 Full Thrust | Iridium-2SpXSUCCESS
  9. 2016Long March 7 / YZ-1A | Development Flight 1CASCSUCCESS
  10. 2013Soyuz STB/Fregat-MT | O3b FM1, FM2, FM4, FM5ASASUCCESS
  11. 2013Soyuz 2.1b | Resurs-P No.1RFSASUCCESS
  12. 2006Tsiklon-2 | US-PM 13RFSASUCCESS
  13. 2000Long March 3 | Feng Yun 2BCASCSUCCESS
  14. 1998Soyuz-U-PVB | Yantar-4KS1M 8RFSASUCCESS
  15. 1997Ariane 44P | INTELSAT 802ASASUCCESS
  16. 1993Scout G-1 | RADCALUSAFSUCCESS
  17. 1993Soyuz-U-PVB | Resurs-F 18VKSSUCCESS
  18. 1993Ariane 42P | Galaxy 4HASASUCCESS
  19. 1992Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-50LSOCSUCCESS
  20. 1991Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 26CCCPFAILURE
  21. 1984Titan 34D | KH-9 19USAFSUCCESS
  22. 1982Molniya-M | US-K 27CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1981Proton-K/DM | EkranCCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1975Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 45CCCPSUCCESS
  25. 1971Voskhod | Zenit-4M 17CCCPFAILURE
  26. 1970Titan 23B | KH-8 27USAFSUCCESS
  27. 1966Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 5CCCPSUCCESS
  28. 1965Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 19USAFSUCCESS
  29. 1965Voskhod | Zenit-4 8CCCPSUCCESS
  30. 1964Scout X-4 | ESRSUSAFFAILURE
  31. 1959Thor Agena A | Discoverer 4USAFFAILURE

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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.

    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.