Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/7 May
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- 1963 - Telstar-2 is launched by a Delta B
- 1955 - Kosmos 66 is launched by a Vostok-2
- 1968 - Kosmos 220 is launched by a Kosmos-3M
- 1971 - Eight Strela satellites are launched by a Kosmos-3M
- 1975 - Explorer-53 is launched by a Scout-F launched from the San Marco platform.
- 1975 - Anik A3 is launched by a Delta 2914
- 1980 - Kosmos 1179 is launched by a Soyuz-U
- 1981 - Kosmos 1269 is launched by a Kosmos-3M
- 1983 - Kosmos 1461 is launched by a Tsyklon-2
- 1984 - Progress 21 is launched by a Soyuz-U
- 1990 - Kosmos 2077 is launched by a Soyuz-U
- 1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its maiden flight, STS-49, a mission to reboost the Intelsat 603 satellite, which had been placed in a useless orbit.
- 1998 - Kosmos 2351 is launched by a Molniya-M
- 1998 - Echostar-4 is launched by a Proton-K
- 2002 - DirecTV-5 is launched by a Proton-K
- 2009 - A Soyuz-U launches Progress M-02M.
- 2011 - An Atlas V launches USA-230 for the Space Based Infrared System.
- 2013 - The second Vega rocket launches Proba-V, VNREDSat 1A and ESTCube-1.