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August 22 in spaceflight

28 orbital launches flew on August 22, the earliest of them in 1958, and 23 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on August 22. Below are the pictures NASA published on August 22 in 3 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

28MISSIONS

23 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1958, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

1ENTRY

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1963 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

3IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 22, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on August 22

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

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.

© Kent Biggs — 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.

© Mike Selby — 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

What happened on August 22

  1. 1963

    X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).

    X-15 Flight 91 ↗

Every launch on August 22

28 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-20SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-6SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | OTV-8 (X-37B) (USSF-36)SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2024Long March 7A | ChinaSat 4ACASCSUCCESS
  5. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-1SpXSUCCESS
  6. 2019Delta IV M+(4,2) | GPS III SV02ULASUCCESS
  7. 2019Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-14 UncrewedRFSASUCCESS
  8. 2018Vega | ADM-AeolusASASUCCESS
  9. 2014Soyuz STB/Fregat | Galileo L3 (FOC FM01-FM02)ASAPARTIAL
  10. 2013Dnepr 1 | KOMPSat-5 (Arirang-5)ISCKSUCCESS
  11. 2006Zenit | Mugunghwa 5SLSUCCESS
  12. 2002Proton-K/DM-2M | Echostar VIIIKhSCSUCCESS
  13. 1992Atlas I | Galaxy 1RGDFAILURE
  14. 1991Kosmos-3M | Parus 73CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1989Soyuz U | Zenit-8 86CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1985Molniya-M | Molniya-1T 64CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1980Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKT 15CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1978Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 42CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1975Vostok 8A92M | Tselina-D 8CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1973Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 64CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1970Molniya-M | Venera-8aCCCPFAILURE
  22. 1969Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 24CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1968Scout B | RAM C-2NASASUCCESS
  24. 1964Kosmos-2I 63S1 | Strela-1 4,5CCCPSUCCESS
  25. 1964Molniya 8K78 | Molniya-1 1bCCCPSUCCESS
  26. 1963X-15 | Flight 91USAFSUCCESS
  27. 1963Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-A1 3CCCPFAILURE
  28. 1958Project Pilot | NOTS 3USNFAILURE

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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.

    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.