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August 29 in spaceflight

27 orbital launches flew on August 29, the earliest of them in 1962, and 27 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on August 29. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

27MISSIONS

27 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1962, the most recent 2024.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

4ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1885 onward.

Pictures from this date

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0IMAGES

No Astronomy Picture of the Day is available for this date.

What happened on August 29

  1. 1885

    Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen (replica pictured).

    Gottlieb Daimler ↗

  2. 1885

    Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle with an internal combustion engine, the Reitwagen.

    Gottlieb Daimler ↗

  3. 1965

    The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.

    Gemini 5 ↗

  4. 1982

    Meitnerium, a synthetic chemical element with the atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

    Meitnerium ↗

Every launch on August 29

27 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2024New Shepard | NS-26BOSUCCESS
  2. 2024Ceres-1S | 6 satellitesGESUCCESS
  3. 2021Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-23SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2013Ariane 5 ECA | Eutelsat 25B / Es'hail 1 & GSAT-7ASASUCCESS
  5. 2009Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-128USASUCCESS
  6. 2008Dnepr | RapidEye 1 to 5ISCKSUCCESS
  7. 2005Long March 2D | Fanhui Shi Weixing (22)CASCSUCCESS
  8. 2004Long March 2C | Fanhui Shi Weixing (19)CASCSUCCESS
  9. 2003Delta IV M | DSCS III B-6USAFSUCCESS
  10. 2003Soyuz U | Progress M-48RFSASUCCESS
  11. 2001H-IIA 202 | LREJAXASUCCESS
  12. 1997Pegasus XL | Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events (FORTE)OSCSUCCESS
  13. 1996Molniya-M | Interbol 2, Magin 5 & MuSat 1PRSCSUCCESS
  14. 1995Ariane 44P | N-STAR aASASUCCESS
  15. 1995Atlas IIAS | JCSAT 3LMTSUCCESS
  16. 1994Atlas E | DMSP-5D2 F12USAFSUCCESS
  17. 1991Vostok 8A92M | IRS-1BCCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1988Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-6CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1985Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 17CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1985Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 53LCCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1978Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKM 19CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1974Kosmos-3M | Sfera 12CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1974Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 30CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1970Voskhod | Zenit-4M 5CCCPSUCCESS
  25. 1969Voskhod | Zenit-4 63CCCPSUCCESS
  26. 1963Thor SLV-2 Agena D | KH-5 9USAFSUCCESS
  27. 1962Thor Agena D | KH-4 11 & RM 3USAFSUCCESS

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    Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan

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    Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir

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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.