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November 6 in spaceflight

18 orbital launches flew on November 6, the earliest of them in 1964, and 18 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 6. Below are the pictures NASA published on November 6 in 5 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

18MISSIONS

18 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1964, the most recent 2025.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

2ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1217 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

5IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for November 6, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on November 6

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.

© Adam Block — 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.

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.

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.

© Martin Lefranc — used with the credit NASA publishes

What happened on November 6

  1. 1217

    The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.

    Charter of the Forest ↗

  2. 1944

    The B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the U.S. state of Washington began producing plutonium, with the facility later going on to create more for nearly the entire American nuclear arsenal.

    B Reactor ↗

Every launch on November 6

18 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-14SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-81SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2021Long March 2D | Yaogan 35 A/B/CCASCSUCCESS
  4. 2020Long March 6 | Satellogic x 10CASCSUCCESS
  5. 2014Dnepr 1 | ASNAROISCKSUCCESS
  6. 2010Delta II 7420-10 | COSMO-SkyMed 4ULASUCCESS
  7. 2004Delta II | GPS IIR-13USAFSUCCESS
  8. 2004Long March 4B | Zi Yuan 2-3CASCSUCCESS
  9. 1998Delta II | Iridium 83 to 87USAFSUCCESS
  10. 1997Delta II | GPS IIA-19USAFSUCCESS
  11. 1995Titan 401A Centaur | Milstar 2USAFSUCCESS
  12. 1988Titan 34D | KH-11 9USAFSUCCESS
  13. 1973Delta 0300 | NOAA 3USAFSUCCESS
  14. 1970Titan IIIC | DSP 1USAFSUCCESS
  15. 1968Titan IIIB | KH-8 17USAFSUCCESS
  16. 1966Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | Lunar Orbiter 2USAFSUCCESS
  17. 1965Thor Delta E | GEOS AUSAFSUCCESS
  18. 1964Scout X-4 | Explorer 23NASASUCCESS

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  • LISTING

    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

  • LISTING

    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

  • LISTING

    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.