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July 15 in spaceflight

20 orbital launches flew on July 15, the earliest of them in 1964, and 19 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 5 spaceflight and astronomy events on July 15. Below are the pictures NASA published on July 15 in 3 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

20MISSIONS

19 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1964, the most recent 2022.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

5ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1799 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

3IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for July 15, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on July 15

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, for this calendar date in each of the last several years.

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

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.

© Martin Pugh — used with the credit NASA publishes

What happened on July 15

  1. 1799

    French soldiers at Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid, uncovered the Rosetta Stone, which was essential in the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts.

    Fort Julien ↗

  2. 1799

    The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.

    Rosetta Stone ↗

  3. 1916

    In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).

    Seattle ↗

  4. 1975

    Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.

    Space Race ↗

  5. 2009

    Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.

    Space Shuttle program ↗

Every launch on July 15

20 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2022Long March 2C | SuperView Neo 2-01 & 02CASCSUCCESS
  2. 2022Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-25SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2020Minotaur IV | NROL-129NGSSSUCCESS
  4. 2015Ariane 5 ECA | Star One C4 & MSG 4ASASUCCESS
  5. 2015Atlas V 401 | GPS IIF-10 (USA-262)ULASUCCESS
  6. 2013Long March 2C | Shijian 11-05CASCSUCCESS
  7. 2012Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-05MRFSASUCCESS
  8. 2011Proton-M / Briz-M Enhanced | SES-3 & KazSat-2ILSSUCCESS
  9. 2011PSLV XL | GSAT-12ISROSUCCESS
  10. 2009Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-127USASUCCESS
  11. 2004Delta 7920-10L | AuraUSAFSUCCESS
  12. 2000Kosmos-3M | CHAMP & MITANPSUCCESS
  13. 1985Soyuz U | Zenit-8 19CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1981Soyuz U | Yantar-2K 20CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1980Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKT 14CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1980Thor DSV-2U | DMSP-5D1 F5USAFFAILURE
  17. 1976Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 13CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1975Saturn IB | Apollo-Soyuz Test ProjectNASASUCCESS
  19. 1975Soyuz-U | Soyuz 19CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1964Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 20CCCPSUCCESS

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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.