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August 10 in spaceflight

28 orbital launches flew on August 10, the earliest of them in 1960, and 25 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on August 10. Below are the pictures NASA published on August 10 in 5 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

28MISSIONS

25 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1960, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

3ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1844 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

5IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 10, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on August 10

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

NASA Science

2026

NASA Science

Tidally locked in synchronous rotation, the Moon always presents its familiar nearside to denizens of planet Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon's farside can become familiar, though. In fact this sharp picture, a mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's wide angle camera, is centered on the lunar farside. Part of a global mosaic of over 15,000 images acquired between November 2009 and February 2011, the highest resolution version shows features at a scale of 100 meters per pixel. Surprisingly, the rough and battered surface of the farside looks very different from the nearside covered with smooth dark lunar maria. A likely explanation is that the farside crust is thicker, making it harder for molten material from the interior to flow to the surface and form dark, smooth maria.Tomorrow's picture: Sunday's Childe

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.

© Robert Edelmaier and Gabriele Gegenbauer — used with the credit NASA publishes

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 August 10

  1. 1844

    From measurements of its motion, German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel deduced that Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, had an unseen companion.

    Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel ↗

  3. 2001

    Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-105 to the International Space Station, carrying the astronauts of Expedition 3 to replace the crew of Expedition 2.

    Space Shuttle program ↗

Every launch on August 10

28 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026H3-22 | Michibiki 7 (QZS-7)MHISUCCESS
  2. 2026Long March 7A | ChinaSat 4BCASCFAILURE
  3. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 8-3SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2023Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Luna 25RFSASUCCESS
  5. 2023SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 02VGSUCCESS
  6. 2023Ceres-1 | 7 satellitesGESUCCESS
  7. 2022Long March 6 | Jilin-1 High Resolution 03D-09, 35 to 43 & Infrared A01 to 06CASCSUCCESS
  8. 2022Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-26SpXSUCCESS
  9. 2021Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-16 (S.S. Ellison Onizuka)NGSSSUCCESS
  10. 2001Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-105USASUCCESS
  11. 1994Ariane 44LP | Brasilsat B1 & Türksat 1BASASUCCESS
  12. 1993Soyuz U | Progress M-19RFSASUCCESS
  13. 1993Molniya-M | US-K 74PRSCSUCCESS
  14. 1992Ariane 42P | Topex-Poseidon, Kitsat 1 & S80/TASASUCCESS
  15. 1990Molniya-M | Molniya-1T 78CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1984Molniya-M | Molniya-1T 61CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1983Proton | Uragan 2 &3CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1983Soyuz U | Yantar-4K1 10CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1981N-2 | Himawari 2NASDASUCCESS
  20. 1979SLV-3 | Rohini 1AISROFAILURE
  21. 1979Delta 2914 | Westar 3USAFSUCCESS
  22. 1977Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKM 3CCCPFAILURE
  23. 1970Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-MG 2CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1968Atlas SLV-3C Centaur | ATS 4USAFSUCCESS
  25. 1966Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | Lunar Orbiter IUSAFSUCCESS
  26. 1965X-15 | Flight 143USAFSUCCESS
  27. 1965Scout B | SEVNASASUCCESS
  28. 1960Thor Agena A | Discoverer 13USAFSUCCESS

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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.