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November 10 in spaceflight

16 orbital launches flew on November 10, the earliest of them in 1967, and 14 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 10. Below are the pictures NASA published on November 10 in 2 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

16MISSIONS

14 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1967, the most recent 2025.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

2ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1970 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

2IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for November 10, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on November 10

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

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

What happened on November 10

  1. 1970

    Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union.

    Luna 17 ↗
  2. 2008

    Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.

    Mars ↗

Every launch on November 10

16 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2025Ceres-1 | Jilin-1 High Resolution-04C and othersGEFAILURE
  2. 2025Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 13CASCSUCCESS
  3. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-29SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2022Atlas V 401 | JPSS 2 (Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft No. 2) & LOFTIDULASUCCESS
  5. 2015Ariane 5 ECA | Arabsat 6B & GSAT-15ASASUCCESS
  6. 2012Ariane 5 ECA | Star One C3 & Eutelsat 21BASASUCCESS
  7. 2009Soyuz U | Progress M-MIM2RFSASUCCESS
  8. 2000Delta II | GPS IIR-6USAFSUCCESS
  9. 1984Ariane 3 | Spacenet 2 & Marecs 2ASASUCCESS
  10. 1976Feng Bao 1 | JSSW 4CASCFAILURE
  11. 1973Titan IIID | KH-9 7USAFSUCCESS
  12. 1973Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 17CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1972Delta 1914 | Anik A1USAFSUCCESS
  14. 1970Proton | Luna-17CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1968Proton / UR-500 K/D | Zond 6CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1967Thor Delta E1 | ESSA 6USAFSUCCESS

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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.