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June 27 in spaceflight

29 orbital launches flew on June 27, the earliest of them in 1963, and 27 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on June 27. Below are the pictures NASA published on June 27 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

29MISSIONS

27 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1963, the most recent 2024.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

4ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1982 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

6IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 27, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on June 27

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.

© Robert Eder — used with the credit NASA publishes

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 June 27

  1. 1982

    Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

    Space Shuttle Columbia ↗

  2. 1995

    Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.

    Space Shuttle Atlantis ↗

  3. 2013

    NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun.

    NASA ↗

  4. 2018

    The Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 (artist's impression pictured) arrived at the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for return to Earth.

    Hayabusa2 ↗

Every launch on June 27

29 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-3SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2023Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Meteor-M No.2-3 & othersRFSASUCCESS
  3. 2022Long March 4C | Gaofen-12-03CASCSUCCESS
  4. 2018Long March 2C | XJS-A & XJS-BCASCSUCCESS
  5. 2013Strela | Kondor No.202 (Kosmos-2487)KhSCSUCCESS
  6. 2011Soyuz-U | Kobalt-M No.7 (Kosmos 2472)VKSSUCCESS
  7. 2011SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF15VGSUCCESS
  8. 2009Delta IV M+(4,2) | GOES-14ULASUCCESS
  9. 1995Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-71LMSOSUCCESS
  10. 1994Pegasus XL | Space Test Experiments Platform 1 (STEP-1)OSCFAILURE
  11. 1990Tsiklon-3 | Meteor-2 19CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1989Soyuz U | Resurs-F 2CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1984Kosmos-3M | Parus 44CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1983Scout D-1 | HILATUSAFSUCCESS
  15. 1983Soyuz-U | Soyuz T-9CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1982Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-4ROISUCCESS
  17. 1979Molniya-M | US-K 11CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1979Atlas F | NOAA 6USAFSUCCESS
  19. 1978Soyuz-U | Soyuz 30CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1978Atlas F/Agena D | Seasat 1USAFSUCCESS
  21. 1977Titan IIID | KH-9 13USAFSUCCESS
  22. 1975Voskhod | Zenit-2M 58CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1974Kosmos-3M | Zaliv 17CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1973Soyuz 11A511M | Zenit-4MT 4CCCPSUCCESS
  25. 1970Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 1CCCPFAILURE
  26. 1970Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 34CCCPSUCCESS
  27. 1969Voskhod | Zenit-4 60CCCPSUCCESS
  28. 1963X-15 | Flight 87USAFSUCCESS
  29. 1963Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4 22USAFSUCCESS

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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.