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September 7 in spaceflight

15 orbital launches flew on September 7, the earliest of them in 1967, and 15 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 6 spaceflight and astronomy events on September 7. Below are the pictures NASA published on September 7 in 5 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

15MISSIONS

15 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1967, the most recent 2022.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

6ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1191 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

5IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for September 7, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on September 7

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

NASA Science

2026

NASA Science

Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself, so large that the impact that blasted out the crater likely came close to shattering the tiny moon. This enhanced-color image of Stickney and surroundings was recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed within some six thousand kilometers of Phobos in March of 2008. Even though the surface gravity of asteroid-like Phobos is less than 1/1000th Earth's gravity, streaks suggest loose material slid down inside the crater walls over time. Light bluish regions near the crater's rim could indicate a relatively freshly exposed surface. The origin of the curious grooves along the surface is mysterious but may be related to tidal stresses experienced by close-orbiting Phobos or the crater-forming impact itself.Tomorrow's picture: farside

NASA · public domain

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.

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.

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 September 7

  1. 1191

    Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf: Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

    Third Crusade ↗

  2. 1906

    Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France successfully for the first time.

    Alberto Santos-Dumont ↗

  3. 1909

    Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Port-Aviation (often called "Juvisy Airfield") at Viry-Châtillon, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life piloting a powered heavier-than-air craft.[better source needed]

    Eugène Lefebvre ↗

  4. 1936

    The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

    Thylacine ↗

Every launch on September 7

15 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2022Ariane 5 ECA+ | Eutelsat Konnect VHTSASASUCCESS
  2. 2021Long March 4C | Gaofen-5-02CASCSUCCESS
  3. 2020Long March 4B | Gaofen-11-02CASCSUCCESS
  4. 2018Long March 2C | Haiyang 1CCASCSUCCESS
  5. 2017Falcon 9 Block 4 | OTV-5 (X-37B)SpXSUCCESS
  6. 2014Falcon 9 v1.1 | AsiaSat 6SpXSUCCESS
  7. 2013Minotaur V | LADEEOSCSUCCESS
  8. 1995Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-69LMSOSUCCESS
  9. 1993Soyuz-U | Orlets-1 5RFSASUCCESS
  10. 1990Soyuz-U-PVB | Resurs-F 9CCCPSUCCESS
  11. 1987Tsiklon-3 | Strela-3 25 to 30CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1984Molniya-M | US-K 37CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1983Soyuz U | Yantar-4K1 11CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1971Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 11CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1967Thor Delta G | Biosat 2USAFSUCCESS

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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.

    VIEW

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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.

    VIEW

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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.