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November 19 in spaceflight

13 orbital launches flew on November 19, the earliest of them in 1965, and 13 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 8 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 19. Below are the pictures NASA published on November 19 in 1 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

13MISSIONS

13 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1965, the most recent 2025.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

8ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1881 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

1IMAGE

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for November 19, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on November 19

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, for this calendar date in each of the last several years.

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.

© John Kraus — used with the credit NASA publishes

What happened on November 19

  1. 1881

    A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odesa, Ukraine.

    Meteorite fall ↗

  2. 1942

    World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in their favour.

    World War II ↗

  3. 1942

    World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

    Battle of Stalingrad ↗

  5. 1969

    Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

    Apollo program ↗

  6. 1996

    Space Shuttle program: Columbia is launched on STS-80, which would become the longest mission in the program at 17 days. On this mission, astronaut Story Musgrave becomes the only astronaut to fly on all five space shuttles.

    Space Shuttle program ↗

  7. 1997

    Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-87.

    STS-87 ↗

  8. 1999

    Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

    Shenzhou 1 ↗

Every launch on November 19

13 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2025Long March 2C | Shijian 30 A-CCASCSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-94SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2024Starship | Integrated Flight Test 6SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2018Long March 2D | Shiyan 6, Jiading-1 (OKW-1) & othersCASCSUCCESS
  5. 2016Atlas V 541 | GOES-RULASUCCESS
  6. 1999Long March 2F | Shenzhou-1CASCSUCCESS
  7. 1997Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-87USASUCCESS
  8. 1996Soyuz U | Progress M-33RFSASUCCESS
  9. 1996Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-80USASUCCESS
  10. 1978Delta 2914 | NATO 3CUSAFSUCCESS
  11. 1971Voskhod | Zenit-4M 26CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1966Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 43CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1965Scout X-4 | Solrad 8NASASUCCESS

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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.