Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/18 March
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- 1963 - A Thor-Agena fails to launch a CORONA satellite.
- 1964 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 26 satellite.
- 1965 - A Thor-Burner launches a DAPP satellite.
- 1965 - A Voskhod rocket launches the manned Voskhod 2 mission.
- 1965 - Alexey Leonov conducts the first EVA, from the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.
- 1966 - An Atlas-Agena launches an AFP-206 satellite.
- 1969 - An Atlas E/F launches three OV1 satellites.
- 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 327 satellite.
- 1971 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 400 satellite.
- 1976 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 809 satellite.
- 1980 - A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
- 1981 - A Proton-K launches the Raduga satellite.
- 1987 - A Zenit-2 launches the Kosmos 1833 satellite.
- 1995 - An H-II launches the SFU and Himawari 5 satellites.
- 2001 - A Zenit-3SL launches the XM-2 Roll satellite.
- 2011 - MESSENGER entered orbit around Mercury on March 18, 2011, becoming the first spacecraft to do so.
- 2016 - A Soyuz-FG launches the Soyuz TMA-20M carrying Expedition 47 to the International Space Station