Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/16 July


 * 1959 - A Juno II fails to launch the S-1 satellite.
 * 1965 - A Kosmos-1 launches five satellites.
 * 1965 - A Proton launches a Proton satellite.
 * 1968 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 232 satellite.
 * 1969 - A Saturn V launches Apollo 11, the first manned mission to attempt a landing on the Moon.
 * 1971 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
 * 1971 - A Thorad-Agena launches the OPS-8373 satellite.
 * 1973 - A Delta 0300 fails to launch the ITOS-E satellite.
 * 1974 - A Scout D-1 launches the Aeros 2 satellite.
 * 1982 - A Delta 3920 launches the Landsat 4 satellite.
 * 1986 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1763 satellite.
 * 1987 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1869 satellite.
 * 1990 - A Long March 2E launches the Badr-A satellite.
 * 1996 - A Delta II launches the GPS IIA-26 satellite.
 * 1999 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-42 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
 * 2000 - A Delta II launches the GPS IIR-5 satellite.
 * 2000 - A Soyuz-U launches two Cluster satellites.
 * 2008 - A Zenit-3SL launches the Echostar XI satellite.
 * 2011 - A Delta IV launches the GPS-IIF 2 navigation satellite.