Launches
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20 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1961, the most recent 2025.
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October 19 in spaceflight
20 orbital launches flew on October 19, the earliest of them in 1961, and 20 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on October 19. Below are the pictures NASA published on October 19 in 5 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.
Recorded events
IN THE RECORD1ENTRY
Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 2017 onward.
Pictures from this date
PUBLISHED5IMAGES
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for October 19, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.
Published on October 19
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, for this calendar date in each of the last several years.
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
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.
© Xingyang Cai — used with the credit NASA publishes
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.
© Martin Ratcliffe — used with the credit NASA publishes
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.
NASA · public domain
What happened on October 19
2017
Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (depicted), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
Robert Weryk ↗
Every launch on October 19
20 launches
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-19SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-17SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Kinetica 1 | PRSC-HS1 & AIRSAT-03/04CASSUCCESS
- 2016Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-02RFSASUCCESS
- 2011Proton-M / Briz-M Enhanced | ViaSat-1ILSSUCCESS
- 2010Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat | 6 x Globalstar-2SSASUCCESS
- 2008Pegasus XL | Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)OSCSUCCESS
- 2006Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat | METOP ARFSASUCCESS
- 2005Titan 404B | NROL-20USAFSUCCESS
- 2004Long March 3A | Feng Yun 2CCASCSUCCESS
- 1999Ariane 44LP | Orion 2ASASUCCESS
- 1995Ariane 42L | Astra 1EASASUCCESS
- 1983Ariane 1 | Intelsat 507ASASUCCESS
- 1982Kosmos-3M | Parus 35CCCPSUCCESS
- 1973Molniya-M | Molniya-2 7CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 46CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968Tsiklon-2A | I2M 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Scout B | RAM C-1NASASUCCESS
- 1965Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-V 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1961Scout X-1 | P-21NASASUCCESS
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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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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.