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- 1963 - A Thor-Agena launches a Ferret SIGINT satellite
- 1968 - A Zenit-2 spy satellite is launched by a Voskhod rocket, but fails to separate from the upper stage of the rocket.
- 1969 - Cosmonauts Yevgeny Khrunov and Aleksei Yeliseyev perform an EVA to transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4, the first crew transfer between two spacecraft in orbit.
- 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches a DS-MO experimental spacecraft
- 1978 - Soyuz 26 lands after a mission to Salyut 6
- 1979 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Parus navigation satellite
- 1981 - A Kosmos-3M launches with a Taifun-1 radar calibration spacecraft aboard
- 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-4MT spy satellite
- 1982 - A Delta 3910 launches RCA Satcom 4
- 1985 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 comsat.
- 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-8 spy satellite
- 1986 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Parus navigation satellite
- 1987 - A Soyuz-U2 launches Progress 27 to Mir
- 1996 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Parus navigation satellite
- 2002 - A Titan IVB launches a Milstar spacecraft.
- 2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia launches on mission STS-107. Debris falling from the external tank during launch damaged the orbiter's heat shield, causing it to break up during re-entry on 1 February, with the loss of all seven crew.
- 2010 - A Long March 3C launches the Compass-G1 navigation satellite
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