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November 24 in spaceflight

27 orbital launches flew on November 24, the earliest of them in 1962, and 25 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 24. Below are the pictures NASA published on November 24 in 5 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

27MISSIONS

25 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1962, the most recent 2024.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

3ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1643 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

5IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for November 24, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on November 24

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

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.

© Robert Nemiroff — used with the credit NASA publishes

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.

© Stefano Attalienti — used with the credit NASA publishes

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 24

  1. 1643

    Thirty Years' War: Holy Roman Empire, Bavarian and Spanish forces led by Franz von Mercy defeated the French army in Germany led by Marshal Josias von Rantzau at the Battle of Tuttlingen.

    Thirty Years' War ↗

  2. 1969

    Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon.

    Apollo program ↗

Every launch on November 24

27 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2024Long March 2C | SuperView Neo 2-03 & 04CASCSUCCESS
  2. 2024HASTE | HASTE A La Vista (MACH-TB)RLSUCCESS
  3. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-13SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2021Kuaizhou 1A | Shiyan 11CASICSUCCESS
  5. 2021Soyuz 2.1b | Uzlovoy Module (UM) "Prichal"RFSASUCCESS
  6. 2021Falcon 9 Block 5 | Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)SpXSUCCESS
  7. 2017Long March 2C | 3 x Yaogan-30CASCSUCCESS
  8. 2015H-IIA 204 | Telstar 12 VANTAGEMHISUCCESS
  9. 2010Long March 3A | ZhongXing-20ACASCSUCCESS
  10. 2009Proton-M | Eutelsat W7KhSCSUCCESS
  11. 2003Proton-K/DM-2M | Yamal-202KhSCSUCCESS
  12. 2002Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-113USASUCCESS
  13. 1994Zenit-2 | Tselina-2 16RFSASUCCESS
  14. 1992Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 67VKSSUCCESS
  15. 1991Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-44LSOCSUCCESS
  16. 1989Tsiklon-2 | US-P 32CCCPFAILURE
  17. 1988Soyuz U | Zenit-8 72CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1986Kosmos-3M | Parus 56CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1983Tsiklon-3 | Geo-IK 4CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1982Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 249-256CCCPFAILURE
  21. 1977Kosmos-3M | Sfera 17CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1971Molniya-M | Molniya-2 1CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1970Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 37CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1970Soyuz 11A511L | T2K 1CCCPSUCCESS
  25. 1969Kosmos-3M | Sfera 5CCCPSUCCESS
  26. 1969Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 27CCCPSUCCESS
  27. 1962Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 15USAFSUCCESS

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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.