Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/14 September


 * 1959 - Luna 2 becomes the first spacecraft to impact the Moon's surface.
 * 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
 * 1968 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 240 satellite.
 * 1968 - A Proton launches Zond 5 on a circumlunar trajectory.
 * 1971 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 438 satellite.
 * 1973 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 586 satellite.
 * 1978 - A Proton launches the Venera 12 mission to Venus.
 * 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1128 satellite.
 * 1981 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 1306 satellite.
 * 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1498 satellite.
 * 1989 - A Tsyklon-3 launches six Strela satellites.
 * 1990 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 2100 satellite.
 * 1997 - A Proton-K/DM-5 launches a group of Iridium satellites, including Iridium 33.
 * 2000 - An Ariane 5 launches the Astra 2B and GE-7 satellites.
 * 2001 - A Soyuz-U launches Progress M-SO1 and the Pirs module of the International Space Station.
 * 2006 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2423 satellite.
 * 2007 - JAXA uses an H-IIA to launch the SELENE lunar orbiter.
 * 2007 - A Soyuz-U launches the Foton-M3 satellite.
 * 2013 - JAXA's Epsilon rocket made its maiden flight, launching the SPRINT-A astronomy observation satellite.