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November 14 in spaceflight

21 orbital launches flew on November 14, the earliest of them in 1969, and 21 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 15 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 14. Below are the pictures NASA published on November 14 in 5 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

21MISSIONS

21 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1969, the most recent 2025.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

15ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1680 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

5IMAGES

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

Published on November 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.

© Samil Cabrera — 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.

© Ashraf Abu Sara — used with the credit NASA publishes

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.

NASA · public domain

What happened on November 14

  1. 1680

    German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.

    Gottfried Kirch ↗

  2. 1680

    German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.

    Gottfried Kirch ↗

  3. 1812

    Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.

    Napoleonic Wars ↗

  4. 1889

    Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.

    Nellie Bly ↗

  5. 1910

    Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

    Eugene Burton Ely ↗

  6. 1910

    Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

    Aircraft pilot ↗

  7. 1969

    Apollo 12 (pictured) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, later becoming the second crewed flight to land on the Moon.

    Apollo 12 ↗

  8. 1969

    Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.

    Apollo program ↗

  9. 1970

    Southern Airways Flight 932, chartered by the Marshall University football team, crashed into a hill near Ceredo, West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board.

    Southern Airways Flight 932 ↗

  10. 1970

    Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.

    Southern Airways Flight 932 ↗

  12. 2003

    Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object Sedna.

    Michael E. Brown ↗

  15. 2012

    Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip in response to an escalation of rocket attacks by Hamas.

    Israel ↗

Every launch on November 14

21 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2025Atlas V 551 | ViaSat-3 F2 (ViaSat-3 EMEA)ULASUCCESS
  2. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-68SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-11SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2018LVM-3 | GSAT-29ISROSUCCESS
  5. 2017Long March 4C | Fengyun-3DCASCSUCCESS
  6. 2014Long March 2C | Yaogan-23CASCSUCCESS
  7. 2012Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat | Meridian 6VKOSUCCESS
  8. 2011Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-22RFSASUCCESS
  9. 2010Proton-M / Briz-M Enhanced | SkyTerra-1ILSSUCCESS
  10. 2008Soyuz-U-PVB | Yantar-4K2M 4VKSSUCCESS
  11. 2007Ariane 5 ECA | Skynet 5B & Star One C1ASASUCCESS
  12. 2003Long March 3A | Zhongxing 20CASCSUCCESS
  13. 1990Tsiklon-2 | US-P 35CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1987Soyuz U | Yantar-1KFT 8CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1986Scout G-1 | Polar BearUSAFSUCCESS
  16. 1984Soyuz U | Zenit-8 8CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1984Soyuz U | Yantar-1KFT 4CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1984Delta 3914 | NATO 3DUSAFSUCCESS
  19. 1975Molniya-M | Molniya-3 13LCCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1973Molniya-M | Molniya-1 25CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1969Saturn V | Apollo 12NASASUCCESS

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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.