Launches
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10 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1959, the most recent 2024.
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November 7 in spaceflight
10 orbital launches flew on November 7, the earliest of them in 1959, and 10 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 7. Below are the pictures NASA published on November 7 in 4 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.
Recorded events
IN THE RECORD4ENTRIES
Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1492 onward.
Pictures from this date
PUBLISHED4IMAGES
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for November 7, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.
Published on November 7
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.
© Robert Nemiroff — used with the credit NASA publishes
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.
© George Williams — 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.
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 November 7
1492
The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
Ensisheim meteorite ↗1910
The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Morehouse.
Air cargo ↗1996
NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Every launch on November 7
10 launches
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- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-77SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-18 (S.S. Sally Ride)NGSSSUCCESS
- 2020PSLV-DL | EOS-01 (RISAT-2BR2)ISROSUCCESS
- 2020Ceres-1 | Tianqi-11GESUCCESS
- 2018Soyuz STB/Fregat-MT | MetOp-CASASUCCESS
- 2013Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-11MRFSASUCCESS
- 1996Delta II | Mars Global SurveyorUSAFSUCCESS
- 1967Atlas SLV-3C Centaur | Surveyor 6USAFSUCCESS
- 1964Nike Cajun | Trailblazer PelletNASASUCCESS
- 1959Thor Agena A | Discoverer 7USAFSUCCESS
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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.