Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/13 May


 * 1960 - A Thor-Delta fails to launch an Echo satellite.
 * 1969 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 281 satellite.
 * 1976 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Comstar-D1 satellite.
 * 1978 - An Atlas E/F launches a GPS satellite.
 * 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress 6 spacecraft to resupply Salyut 6.
 * 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz T-5 mission.
 * 1987 - A Zenit-2 launches the Kosmos 1844 satellite.
 * 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1845 satellite.
 * 1988 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress 36 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
 * 1993 - A Delta II launches a GPS satellite.
 * 1998 - A Titan 23G launches the NOAA-15 satellite.
 * 2007 - A Long March 3B launches NigComSat-1, the first African geosynchronous communications satellite.