Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/15 May


 * 1958 - A Sputnik launches the Sputnik 3 satellite.
 * 1960 - A Vostok-L launches a Korabl'-Sputnik satellite.
 * 1962 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
 * 1963 - An Atlas LV-3B launches the last Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9, with astronaut Gordon Cooper aboard.
 * 1966 - A Thor-Agena launches the Nimbus 2 satellite.
 * 1967 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 158 satellite.
 * 1974 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 651 satellite.
 * 1974 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 652 satellite.
 * 1974 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 653 satellite.
 * 1976 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
 * 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1098 satellite.
 * 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1180 satellite.
 * 1981 - A Scout G-1 launches the Nova 1 satellite.
 * 1982 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
 * 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1649 satellite.
 * 1986 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1743 satellite.
 * 1987 - An Atlas H launches three NOSS satellites.
 * 1987 - The first Energia rocket fails to launch the Polyus satellite.
 * 1988 - A Zenit-2 launches the Kosmos 1943 satellite.
 * 1990 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2078 satellite.
 * 1997 - launches on mission STS-84 to visit Mir.
 * 1997 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2343 satellite.
 * 2001 - A Proton-K launches the PanAmSat-10 satellite.
 * 2002 - A Long March 4B launches the FY-1D satellite.
 * 2012 - A Soyuz-FG launches Soyuz TMA-04M, carrying three of the Expedition 31 crew to the ISS.
 * 2012 - An Ariane 5ECA launches the JCSAT-13 and Vinasat-2 satellites.
 * 2013 - An Atlas V launches GPS IIF-4, the first operational GPS satellite launched on an Atlas rocket.