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14 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1964, the most recent 2022.
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July 6 in spaceflight
14 orbital launches flew on July 6, the earliest of them in 1964, and 14 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on July 6. Below are the pictures NASA published on July 6 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.
Recorded events
IN THE RECORD2ENTRIES
Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from -83 onward.
Pictures from this date
PUBLISHED6IMAGES
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for July 6, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.
Published on July 6
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.
© Massimo Di Fusco — 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.
© Michael Seeley — used with the credit NASA publishes
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
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 July 6
-83
The Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in Rome is burned down and the Sibylline books of prophecy destroyed with it.
Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus ↗2003
The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
Yevpatoria ↗
Every launch on July 6
14 launches
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- 2022Black Brant IX | SISTINEELASUCCESS
- 2021Long March 3C/E | Tianlian 1-05CASCSUCCESS
- 2020Shavit-2 | Ofek-16IAISUCCESS
- 2011Long March 2C | Shijian 10-03CASCSUCCESS
- 2009Rokot / Briz-KM | Strela-3 140 & 141VKSSUCCESS
- 1994Proton | US-KMO 3KhSCSUCCESS
- 1987Kosmos-3M | Parus 59CCCPSUCCESS
- 1983Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 265-272CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 62CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1976Soyuz | Soyuz 21CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Voskhod | Zenit-4M 38CCCPSUCCESS
- 1966UR-500 | Proton 3CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Atlas Agena D | KH-7 9USAFSUCCESS
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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.