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October 14 in spaceflight

32 orbital launches flew on October 14, the earliest of them in 1960, and 31 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 6 spaceflight and astronomy events on October 14. Below are the pictures NASA published on October 14 in 5 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

32MISSIONS

31 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1960, the most recent 2025.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

6ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1805 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

5IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for October 14, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on October 14

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.

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

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.

© Vincenzo Mirabella — used with the credit NASA publishes

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.

© Michael Seeley — used with the credit NASA publishes

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.

© Ignacio Diaz Bobillo — used with the credit NASA publishes

What happened on October 14

  1. 1805

    War of the Third Coalition: French forces under Marshal Michel Ney defeated Austrian forces in Elchingen, present-day Germany.

    War of the Third Coalition ↗

  2. 1888

    French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene (pictured), the earliest surviving motion picture, in Leeds, England.

    Louis Le Prince ↗

  4. 1947

    American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.06 on board the Bell X-1, an experimental rocket-powered aircraft.

    Chuck Yeager ↗

  5. 1947

    Flying the Bell X-1 over Muroc Army Air Field in California, Captain Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in level flight, reaching Mach 1.05.

    Bell X-1 ↗

  6. 1968

    Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.

    Apollo program ↗

Every launch on October 14

32 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2025Electron | Owl New World (StriX Launch 7)RLSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Amazon Leo (KF-03)SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2024Falcon Heavy | Europa ClipperSpXSUCCESS
  4. 2022Long March 2D | Yaogan 36 Group 02CASCSUCCESS
  5. 2021Long March 2D | Xihe (CHASE)CASCSUCCESS
  6. 2021Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 11ASASUCCESS
  7. 2020Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-17RFSASUCCESS
  8. 2017Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-07 (68P)RFSASUCCESS
  9. 2012Proton-M / Briz-M Enhanced | Intelsat 23ILSSUCCESS
  10. 2012Long March 2C/SMA | Shijian 9A & Shijian 9BCASCSUCCESS
  11. 2010Proton-M Briz-M | Sirius XM-5ILSSUCCESS
  12. 2004Proton-M Briz-M | AMC 15KhSCSUCCESS
  13. 2004Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-5RFSASUCCESS
  14. 1999Long March 4B | Zi Yuan 1-1CASCSUCCESS
  15. 1992Molniya 8K78M-PVB | Molniya-3 50LPRSCSUCCESS
  16. 1987Kosmos-3M | Parus 60CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1983Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 3CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1982Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 67CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1980Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 40CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1976Delta 2914 | Marisat 3USAFSUCCESS
  21. 1976Soyuz | Soyuz 23CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1972Molniya-M | Molniya-1 21CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1971Voskhod | Zenit-4M 24CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1971Thor Burner 2A | DSAP-5B F1USAFSUCCESS
  25. 1970Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U3-IK 2CCCPSUCCESS
  26. 1969Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U3-IK 1CCCPSUCCESS
  27. 1966Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 42CCCPSUCCESS
  28. 1965X-15 | Flight 153USAFSUCCESS
  29. 1965Thor SLV-2A Agena D | OGO 2USAFSUCCESS
  30. 1965Molniya 8K78 | Molniya-1 2CCCPSUCCESS
  31. 1964Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 23CCCPSUCCESS
  32. 1960Molniya 8K78 | Mars-1bCCCPFAILURE

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    Cosmos — Carl Sagan

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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.