Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/3 November
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- 1957 - A Sputnik-PS launches Sputnik 2, the first satellite to carry a living organism, Laika.
- 1960 - A Juno II launches the Explorer 8 satellite.
- 1966 - A Titan IIIC launches the Gemini-B, OPS 0855, OV1-6 and two OV4-1 spacecraft as part of the Manned Orbital Laboratory programme.
- 1967 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 190 satellite.
- 1968 - A Thorad-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
- 1971 - A Titan IIIC launches two DSCS satellites.
- 1972 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 536 satellite.
- 1973 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Mariner 10 probe.
- 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1318 satellite.
- 1990 - A Proton-K launches a Gorizont satellite.
- 1994 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on Spacelab mission STS-66.
- 2003 - A Long March 2D launches an FSW-3 satellite.