Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/16 January


 * 1963 - A Thor-Agena launches a Ferret SIGINT satellite
 * 1968 - A Zenit-2 spy satellite is launched by a Voskhod rocket, but fails to separate from the upper stage of the rocket.
 * 1969 - Cosmonauts Yevgeny Khrunov and Aleksei Yeliseyev perform an EVA to transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4, the first crew transfer between two spacecraft in orbit.
 * 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches a DS-MO experimental spacecraft
 * 1978 - Soyuz 26 lands after a mission to Salyut 6
 * 1979 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Parus navigation satellite
 * 1981 - A Kosmos-3M launches with a Taifun-1 radar calibration spacecraft aboard
 * 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-4MT spy satellite
 * 1982 - A Delta 3910 launches RCA Satcom 4
 * 1985 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 comsat.
 * 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-8 spy satellite
 * 1986 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Parus navigation satellite
 * 1987 - A Soyuz-U2 launches Progress 27 to Mir
 * 1996 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Parus navigation satellite
 * 2002 - A Titan IVB launches a Milstar spacecraft.
 * 2003 - The launches on mission STS-107. Debris falling from the external tank during launch damaged the orbiter's heat shield, causing it to break up during re-entry on 1 February, with the loss of all seven crew.
 * 2010 - A Long March 3C launches the Compass-G1 navigation satellite