Launches
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18 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1964, the most recent 2025.
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August 14 in spaceflight
18 orbital launches flew on August 14, the earliest of them in 1964, and 18 reached orbit. Below are the pictures NASA published on August 14 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.
Recorded events
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Wikipedia records no spaceflight or astronomy event on this date.
Pictures from this date
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NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 14, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.
Published on August 14
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, for this calendar date in each of the last several years.
2026
NASA Science
This stairway in Chile brings you only a little bit closer to heaven. But ooh, the sky above it makes you wonder. For example, you may wonder about the dark lane of our own Milky Way galaxy rising behind the expansive Atacama Desert in Chile, the band of zodiacal light on the upper left, the green and red airglow just above the horizon, the star Spica in the zodiacal light stripe, and, at the very top on the right, the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The Desert Staircase sculpture is in the foreground, and this image was timed to catch the picturesque peering perch just in front of the near-vertical Milky Way band. Upon close inspection of the horizon you can find, left to right, some Andes Mountains, the Licancabur volcano, and the town lights of San Pedro de Atacama. The featured wide-angle composite was captured in July 2025.Tomorrow's picture: open space
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.
© R. Jay Gabany — used with the credit NASA publishes
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
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
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.
© Marzena Rogozinska — used with the credit NASA publishes
Every launch on August 14
18 launches
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-20SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-4SpXSUCCESS
- 2023Kuaizhou 1A | HEAD-3A/B/C/D/EEPSUCCESS
- 2017Falcon 9 Block 4 | SpX CRS-12SpXSUCCESS
- 2016Falcon 9 Full Thrust | JCSAT-16SpXSUCCESS
- 2010Atlas V 531 | AEHF-1 (USA-214)ULASUCCESS
- 2008Ariane 5 ECA | AMC-21 & Superbird 7ASASUCCESS
- 2007Ariane 5 ECA | Spaceway-3 & BSAT-3AASASUCCESS
- 1997Proton | US-KS 7KhSCSUCCESS
- 1996Molniya-M | Molniya-1T 89PRSCSUCCESS
- 1991Ariane 44L | Intelsat 605ASASUCCESS
- 1984Soyuz U | Progress 23CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz U | Yantar-2K 10CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Kosmos-3M | Parus 3CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Titan 24B | KH-8 43USAFSUCCESS
- 1965Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 30CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 10USAFSUCCESS
- 1964Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 21CCCPSUCCESS
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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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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.